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Materials for Experiments

How many of these items do you already have? We’ve tried to keep it simple for you
by making the majority of the items things most people have within reach (both physically
and budget-wise), and even have broken down the materials by experiment category so you
can decide if those are ones you want to do. NOTE: This material list is for the entire
Experiment section online.

Ramp Races Pendulums
Several small balls of different Yardstick
weights (golf ball, racket ball, ping A washer or a weight of some kind
pong ball, marble etc.) Stopwatch
Good size container or mixing bowl 4 index cards (any size)
Flour or corn starch or any kind of 10 Thumb tacks (or brass
light powder fasteners)
Pie tin or other shallow container Big, heavy hex nut
Tape measure or yard stick 10’ string or yarn
Optional: Spring scale or kitchen 6 strong donut-shaped ring
scale magnets

Roller Coasters & Bobsleds P-Shooter
3 pieces ¾” pipe insulation (non- Mechanical pencil (cheap kind)
adhesive, black foam) 2 thin rubber bands
20 marbles Razor (get adult help)
1 roll masking tape
Aluminum foil Optional Items for Grades 9-12:
Scissors Baking potato (raw)
Gift wrap tube or clear fluorescent- Protractor
lamp tube
Stopwatch, yardstick Straw, string
Rock or key (to use as weight)
Catapult Stopwatch
6 rubber bands Acrylic tubing (approx 1/2” dia)
2 plastic spoons ¼” wood dowel (should fit inside
9 tongue-depressor popsicle sticks acrylic tube)
14 regular-size popsicle sticks Washer (make sure that the inner
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
wooden clothespin diameter of washer smaller than
straw outer diameter of acrylic tube, so
wood skewer or dowel the washer cannot slide up the
Marshmallows, wadded up paper tube)
sheets or aluminum foil balls

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