Paper lab sheets

Close the Switch

CuriosityQuest · elec-circuit

When I blank the blank, the bulb went blank because the path was blank.

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Alessandro Volta, 1800

Flip the Gates

CuriosityQuest · circuits

With switch A blank and switch B blank, the blank gate’s bulb was blank, because blank.

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Claude Shannon, 1937

Warm the Beaker

CuriosityQuest · matter

At blank degrees the water was blank and the thermometer blank.

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Michael Faraday, Christmas 1860

Lower the Block

CuriosityQuest · buoyancy

The blank floated because it is lighter than the same size of water. It sank in until the water it pushed aside weighed blank it.

Try at home: A glass of water and a fresh egg: the egg sinks. Stir in salt, a spoonful at a time, and count the spoons until it floats.

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Vitruvius, about 25 BC, then Galileo, 1586

Drive the Sun

CuriosityQuest · watercycle

When I turned the sun blank, the blank happened first, then blank.

Try at home: Two saucers of water, one in the sun and one in the shade. Look again after lunch: which has less?

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Edmond Halley, 1687 and 1691

Pull One Out

CuriosityQuest · foodweb

When the blank went, there were more or fewer blank, because blank.

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Raymond Lindeman, 1942 (and Charles Elton, 1927)

Move the Shadow

CuriosityQuest · shadows

When I moved the blank closer to the lamp, the shadow got blank because blank.

Try at home: With a grown-up: a flashlight, a card and a wall. Measure the shadow, then move the card halfway to the flashlight and measure again.

Date: blank

Decay It 100 Times

CuriosityQuest · runmany

One run said blank; a hundred runs mostly said blank; I guessed blank.

Date: blank · The first person who saw this: Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, 1902