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How To Create Electricity From Falling Water

You can generate sparks of 5,000 to 10,000 volts of electricity using only two streams of water and metal mesh. Want to replicate the experiment at home? See how… http://bit.ly/1rxaoKJ

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The Effect of Music, Prayer & Words on Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto:

Keeping in mind our bodies are 65% water. You are what you tell yourself you are. You are what you tell others they are. Thoughts truly become things… choose good ones!

DIY 1 Ingredient Rock Candy Tutorial from Growing a Jeweled Rose. When listing ingredients I do not count water as an ingredient. This is such a fun experiment for kids and if it doesn’t work you are out the cost of sugar.

Materials: 1. Brown sugar 2. 2 zipper-lock bags 3. Half and half 4. Adult supervision 5. Vanilla extract 6. Ice 7. Rock salt 8. Large empty container with lid 8. Measuring utensils Steps: 1. First, fill the large container half full with crushed ice. 2. Next, add 6 tablespoons of rock salt to the ice and seal the container and shake the ice and salt for 5 minutes. 3. Then, mix 1/2 a cup of half and half, 1/2 cup tablespoon brown sugar, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract in the zipper bag. 4. Next, tightly seal the bag and place it inside the other zipper bag. 5. Then, place the bag inside the container with the salt and ice. 6. Next, shake the container and the ice cream will be ready in 17 minutes. 7. Finally, remove the bags from the jar and rinse them with water and enjoy! Lesson: Salt causes ice to melt. When salt comes in contact with ice, the freezing point is lowered. Heat must be absorbed by the ice to melt, which means the heat that causes the melting comes from its surroundings. By lowering the temperature at which ice is frozen, you are able to create an environment where the cream could freeze at a freezing temperature to make ice cream.

For NASA, Earth Day is Every Day!

With a fleet of spacecraft orbiting our home planet collecting data on everything from the air we breathe to natural disasters that impact our lives, Earth is always in focus. Join us as we celebrate our home with beautiful views from our unique vantage point of space.

On December 17, 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 snapped this iconic image of planet Earth. Dubbed the Blue Marble, this image was taken as Apollo 17 rocketed toward the moon. 

On the way to the moon or from the surface of Mars, our spacecraft have photographed the beauty of Earth from many vantage points. In this image, the most powerful telescope orbiting Mars captured this view of Earth and its moon, showing continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of the moon. The image combines two separate exposures taken on November 20, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. 

In this image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on our Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame.

Our Suomi-NPP satellite also observed the Earth at night. Earth’s “night lights” often have a gee-whiz curiosity for the public , but have also served as a tool for fundamental research for nearly 25 years. They have provided a broad, beautiful picture, showing how humans have shaped the planet and lit up the darkness. 

You can be mesmerized by the constant swirls in these visualizations of ocean currents. The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents were captured using the largest computations of their kind ever undertaken, using high-end computing resources at our Ames Research Center. 

We’ve all seen iconic photographs of Earth shot by astronauts. But even satellites and robotic spacecraft often get in on the act. The above image, called “Pale Blue Dot,” was taken Voyager 1 in February 1990 from a distance of 4 billion miles.

Our satellites do more than take pretty pictures of Earth. They do everything from measure rainfall to observe weather patterns. The ten satellites in the Global Precipitation Measurement Constellation have provided unprecedented information about rain and snow fall across the entire Earth. This visualization shows the constellation in action, taking precipitation measurements underneath the satellite orbits. 

In an homage to Apollo 17′s “Blue Marble” image, Suomi-NPP, a joint NASA-NOAA Earth-observing satellite, made this composite image, by making a number of swaths of Earth’s surface on January 4, 2012. 

What’s your favorite aspect of planet Earth? These kids have their own ideas. You can even “adopt” parts of the planet. Which one of the 64,000 locations will you get? 

Our home planet is constantly changing, which is why our fleet of Earth-observing satellites continuously monitor the globe, recording every moment of what they see. Luckily for us, many of the views are not only deeply informative but also awe-inspiring. 

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Want to make a rubber egg? Your students do.

http://www.coffeecupsandcrayons.com/make-rubber-egg-science-experiment/ http://ow.ly/i/5haa2

Exploring Potential and Kinetic Energy

During a physics unit, have students explore potential and kinetic energy with these five fun experiments that encourage problem solving and play.

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2015/06/29/exploring-potential-and-kinetic-energy

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