Pop! Soda and Soda Cans

There are several different things you can include in your ideas for this week...

*Empty soda cans*

*Full soda cans*

*The soda itself, without the can*

Toy Cars

Big or small, self-powered or not, let's hear any ways you can think of to use a toy car to teach a science concept.

Bird Seed

Readily available from a lot of sources... how do you use it?

Bottles

Plastic bottles - soda bottles, water bottles, etc. - are easy to come by and can be used for a variety of demonstrations and activities.

Here is a whole book of things you can do with empty soda bottles:

(If you click on the words "Bottle Biology" to the right of the image, you'll be taken directly to amazon.com where you can read more about it and order your very own copy, should you wish to do so) It's a pretty neat book with lots of ideas, from simple to complex.

Bottle Biology

I will try to post a picture of a self-watering planter I made last summer (from this book) in the next day or two. The self watering device worked really well for a few months, until it rotted. But, up until that point, it kept the plant alive without my touching it, for a good three months.