"Avantor"

Developed in collaboration with Dr. Martin K. Nickels, Professor of Physical Anthropology at Illinois State University, this Hominid Skull Comparison lets students investigate and draw their own conclusions regarding evolutionary relationships by examining and taking measurements of 24 life-size drawings of eight hominid skulls.

Unpolished metamorphic rock with silky lusture, red-brown colour, and clear parallel intergrown quartz crystals.

Visualize and compare the relative strengths of different magnetic fields.

Explore the factors affecting the electrical resistance of conductive modeling dough.

Explore a standing wave on a string and determine the linear mass density of the string.

Study rays reflecting off plane and curved mirrors, determine the focal length of a curved mirror.

Study rays refracting through various transparent media, then determine the focal length of a lens.

Use a calorimetric technique to determine the temperature of a Bunsen burner flame.

Use Bernoulli’s Principle to predict the landing spot of a stream of water leaking from a bucket.

Determine the speed of sound in air by investigating the resonance of a column of air.

Measure the acceleration due to gravity three different ways.

Analyze the displacement of an object with constant velocity and an object that is accelerating.

Measure the static and kinetic friction between two surfaces using direct and indirect methods.

Design and conduct an experiment that analyzes the motion of a conical pendulum.

Determine the spring constant of a spring using two methods.

Explore charging by induction and discover how a Leyden jar stores electric charges.