Fast Forward Community Technology Center & the University of South Carolina

Our graduate students have developed a number of lessons and experiments that are easily used by others interested in conducting hands on science experiments.  We have begun to compile these lessons here for your use.  Feel free to contact is if you have any questions.  Enjoy!

Always a great place to start and a favorite of our students (both graduate and K-12):  Rapping to the Scientific Method & African American Scientists

• Plants:  How does the type of water or quality of water affect how plants grow?
• Creek Stability:  Does Flora/Fauna change along creek bank? What are some other indicators?
• Flood Management:  Why do we have/need storm drains anyway?
• River Quality:  How clean is our river?
• Keeping rivers clean, the role of sediments:  Does rock type (sand versus clay) matter?

• Sharks What are they?  Where are they on the food chain, and why do they look the way they do?

• Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes II What is a volcano?  How do plates move and why?

• Rockets How do rockets work? What is force versus energy?

• Catapults What are the laws of motion?  What is force?

• Race Cars What is gravity?  Does friction matter?  Angles and timing

• Weather and Climate, Making Hail, Weather Test What is the difference between weather and climate?

• Foodwebs and Touch Tank What is a foodweb?  Do they change?

• Survival of the fittest:  Plants in a Jar Why do some plants and others don't?

• Plate Tectonics and Building a Volcano What is a volcano?  How do plates move and why?

• Mineralogy, Mineral Cheat Sheet What re minerals? How are they formed?

• Fossils and Dinosaurs What is geologic time?  How do we know about dinosaurs and the geologic past?

• Solids, liquids and gases (including acid rain)

• Candy Chromotography, questions, color wheel  What is color?  Do colors have "special" features? Polar versus non-polar compounds.

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  Last Updated May 2008