Can you make fabric from plastic bags?
For centuries people have used cosmetics to enhance or decorate the human figure for aesthetic or religious purposes.
Legend has it that the first soap was accidentally produced on Mt. Sopa, a site of animal sacrifice.
Candles were first mentioned in Biblical times, as early as the tenth century BCE. These early candles were made of wicks stuck into containers filled with a flammable material.
Students investigate how easily objects made of rubber, plastic, and metal slide along a surface.
Students investigate what the effect of adding carbon fiber (fabric) to plastic (glue) has on the observable properties of the resulting object.
Students use the shape (structure) of a roll cage to try to determine the roll cage’s function in a NASCAR race car.
NASCAR race cars are made up of many different parts, and these parts are made of many different materials.
Students are presented with the phenomenon of car design features that increase driver safety during high-speed collisions.
In this Short Activity, learners see and interact with the nanomaterial aerogel and discover its unique properties.
In this Short Activity, learners explore seashells and various structural models to discover that seashells are a composite material made of both inorganic and organic materials.
About 60% of all known metal artifacts from ancient Mexico are bells, ranging in pitch and purpose.
