A- Air Force Museum Trip (18)
In February 2010 the Explorers paid a visit to the National Museum of the Air Force to learn about the American space program.
- amUous Mind Puzzles (3)
Word puzzles for the Explorers
B- Backyard Wildlife (1)
Animals, plants and other fascinating discoveries in the explorers own backyards.
- Bird Feeders (12)
The Explorers create feeders for our feathered friends using pop bottles, glue, glitter, and wooden spoons.
- Bottle Tunes (5)
The Explorers create music by investigating how bottles that are identical produce different notes when they have different levels of water in them.
G- Goo (55)
The Explorers investigated the difference between physical and chemical changes during a session that turned plain old glue and water into slime with the help of a "fixing agent."
L- Leaf Hike (17)
The Explorers visit Taylorsville MetroPark to investigate the signs of summer changing to autumn.
- Leaf Identification (33)
The Explorers learned to use a pocket guide to identify tree leaves.
- Logo (5)
| O- Open House (78)
The Explorers host an open house for their families on May 21, 2009, demonstrating some of the club's top activities from the year.
P- Periscope up! (19)
The Explorers investigated the nature of light waves and reflections by building simple periscopes.
- Plaster Fossils (27)
The Explorers mix up some plaster of paris to create their own fossils. Fossils of small shells work out nicely--fossils of their own feet, not so much.
- Plaster Fossils 2 (40)
The second time proves to be the charm when it comes to making footprint and handprint fossils.
- Pop Bottle Geysers (23)
The Explorers investigage nucleation, which is the process of forming bubbles that carbon dioxide molecules in soda pop do when they are given a rough surface to cling to. The Explorers discover that a few of the candies known as Mentos provide such an ideal rough surface that a 2-liter bottle of pop turns into a miniature geyser that shoots up to 15 feet high.
- Pop Bottle Geysers 2010 (80)
R- Rocket Science 1 (16)
The Explorers make rockets from magazine paper, poster board, scissors, cellophane, tape, and glue.
- Rocket Science 2 (92)
The Explorers send their rockets into the chilly wild blue yonder.
V- Volcanoes (20)
The Explorers spread havoc with erupting volcanoes of baking soda, vinegar, and water. Watch the tiny paper people flee their impending doom.
W- Wallpaper (15)
Images suitable for dressing up your computer desktop
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