Materials: 1.jelly Crystals 2.small Cups 3.iron Filings 4.calcium Chloride 5.zip Lock Bag 6.water 7.adult

A red hot ball of Nickel placed on a block of ice.

Magnets and currents .

Brief Explanation: 

MAGNETS 

Magnets are obviously a material which has a powerful attraction.  In scientific way; it is a piece of iron (or an ore, alloy, or other material) that has its component atoms so ordered that it exhibits properties of magnetism.

CURRENTS 

A flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles.

Golden or White Zebra

Zoe is one of the rarest zebras in exsistance. She is what is called a Golden Zebra, although some refer to her as a “white” zebra. Zoe is the only Golden Zebra known to be in captivity at this time. Zoe was born on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii in 1998 and shortly after her and her mother, Oreo, were moved to the Three Ring Ranch, which is an animal sancturary on the Big Island of Hawaii. Read more here.

Density experiment. Salt water has a higher density than fresh water, causing the egg to float in it! 

How To Make Invisible Ink

Materials: 1.4 soda cans 2.2 ceramic magnets 3.ruler 4. Five hex nuts 5.an empty tall drinking glass 6.adult Steps: 1.First, put two soda cans on each side at the ruler length apart. 2.next, stack the other two soda cans with one on each can. 3.then, put the ruler on top of the soda can towers and put The drinking glass between the towers. 4.next, place one magnet on the ruler and put the other magnet underneath the ruler so the magnets attached to each other. 5.then, attach the hex nuts with one of the time to the magnet underneath the ruler 6.finally, slowly detach the hex nut chain and bounce it on the edge of the glass. (Make sure the edge is directly below the magnet) Lesson: The magnets are causing the hex nuts to attract each other, and, thus, the hex nuts create their own magnetic field. When you detach the hex nuts from the magnet, there magnetic field is weaker.

I grew crystals in my fridge last night. They are also lavender scented. Here’s how I did it: About 2 cups of lavender scented Epsom salts. A glass jar. 1 cup of hot water (microwaved the water) ½ cup of additional hot water with food coloring of your choice (I used green) A fridge to put the jar of melted Epsom salts in over night.

Directions:

The ½ cup water, get it hot then you are gonna mix food coloring in it and set it aside.

Put your Epsom salts in the glass jar.

Take the full cup of hot water and pour into the jar over the Epsom salts. Stir for two minutes.

Take the colored water you had put aside and add it to the jar. Stir it up and then put the jar in the fridge (24 hrs)

When it is time to take the jar out of the fridge, it won’t look different at first do not get discurged! You have to get rid of the remaining liquid, once you do, the result will be your very own crystals grown by you!

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND Matt Ganis IBM Social Media Analytics  Olympian Internet Firewall Creator

“I think we learn as we play – the silly experiments we come up with today could be at the core of very serious solutions we develop tomorrow.”

Celebrating Women’s History Month at the Museum

March is Women’s History Month, and through the month, we’ll be looking to our nearly 150-year past, exciting present, and bright future to bring you stories of women in science here at the American Museum of Natural History. Today, we’re taking a look at a few of the women who help shaped the Museum in it’s early years. 

Pictured is herpetologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson, author of Moths and Butterflies (1901) and The Frog Book (1906). In 1909, Dickerson became one of four founding curators in the Museum’s Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology. Within 10 years, she laid the foundation for a standalone herpetology department, which formed under her direction in 1920.

Delia “Mickie” Akeley, wife of explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley who conceived the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, was herself an adventurer and artist. She assisted Carl as he perfected a novel method of taxidermy, and collected specimens on several key expeditions to Africa. And it’s a good thing she did—on a trip in 1909, Delia saved Carl’s life after he was attacked by a bull elephant.

Curator of Micropaleontology Angelina Messina found beauty and wonder in some of the Museum’s tiniest specimens. She joined the staff in the 1930s, and with the help of Assistant Curator Eleanor Salmon, prepared catalogs of foraminifera—miniscule organisms that provide important markers to geologists and hold vital records of ancient climates within their fossilized chambers. 

Another trailblazer, anthropologist Margaret Mead, joined the Museum in 1926, at the age of 25, as an assistant curator. Two years later, she published her best-selling book Coming of Age in Samoa, which introduced readers to the value of looking carefully and open-mindedly at other cultures and is still taught in anthropology classrooms.

This March, we’ll be profiling women in science across the Museum, so make sure to follow along on the Museum’s social media channels: @AMNH on Twitter, Instagram, and on Facebook and tumblr.

Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of mathematician and inventor Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923).