How to Make a Simple Water Filter – The Small Filter

How to Make a Simple Water Filter - The Small Filter - excerpt from the book "The Scientific American Boy" by A. Russell Bond

How to Make a Simple Water Filter - The Small Filter - excerpt from the book "The Scientific American Boy" by A. Russell Bond

Learn how to make a Megaphone - Cardboard Megaphone - excerpt from the book "The Scientific American Boy" by A. Russell Bond
What to do During a Tornado - Tornado Safety rules - While different kinds of storms bring different kinds of danger, some basic safety rules apply to all storms. To be safe you should learn what kinds of storms affect the area where you live or are visiting, and you should become familiar with the safety rules for those storms.

A transformer can make an electric current smaller or larger. As an electric current flows along the wires from a power station, it loses energy...

You can make a bulb light up by using two wires to join it to a battery. The bulb lights up because an electric current is flowing through it. The battery produces the current by pushing electrons along the wires. The…

Do you know how water gets to the faucets on your kitchen sink? It comes through pipes. Pipes let water flow in the direction we want it to go. How do we make electricity flow in the direction we want…

The laser beam's energy is concentrated into a narrow width and is very powerful. Laser light can also be focused very accurately. Over this huge distance...

Our eyes are good enough for simple stargazing. But they tell us very little about what the stars are really like. To see the stars more clearly and find out about them, we need to look through a telescope. The…

Backyard fun for kids – Animated Giraffe – The Giraffe is one of the rarest of animals, and very few are to be found in captivity. So if you make a giraffe, which is not difficult to do, you will…

Fun activities for kids outside - The Elephant is one of the oldest forms of animated animals, and is at the same time one of the most popular.