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Discover Electricity
This program is designed to help children understand electricity by focusing on key discoveries concerning atoms, electrons, and electricity. Following in the steps of history, students discover electricity through hands-on projects. They learn what electricity is and how it was first discovered, stored, and produced in large quantities. Students also discuss the benefits of using renewable energy to satisfy our growing need for electricity. Projects include: Projects include: Modeling the aluminum atom, experimenting with a Van de Graff Generator, fruit batteries, compasses and electromagnets, electric motors, electric generators, circuits, testing filaments and fuses and rheostats.
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Early Inventions
Our Inventions programs teach students about the greatest of human innovations, from pre-civilization to the Industrial Revolution. In Early Inventions, students learn how ancient technologies shaped modern civilization by changing warfare, architecture and transportation. Topics include cannons, pulleys, ball bearings, waterwheels, catapults, balances, hot air balloons, windmills, submarines, and hydraulic cranes.
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