Use a common chemistry practice to apply a custom design to fabric. Jazz up a white scarf, t-shirt, or bandana and wow your friends with your knowledge of chemical chromatography!
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Fashion Chromatography
Balloon Bugs
Make balloon bacteria models! Explore the shapes and structures of bacteria with different types of balloons and learn about their behaviors as disease-causing organisms.
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Get the Balloon Bugs presentation (download here)
Get the Balloon Bugs instruction cards (download here)
Get tags for labeling the bacteria (download here)
DeSTEMber Materials List
Activities for the week of December 1st-7th 2014
We are very excited for our first week of DeSTEMber!
Each Friday we will post the materials list for the upcoming week:
12.01 – Balloon Bugs
12.02 – Fashion Chromatography
12.03 – Wind Bag Wonder
12.04 – Constellation Light Box
12.05 – Rainforest in a Bottle
12.06 – Glaciers Galore
12.07 – DeSTEMber Fest @ Bullock
12.01 – Balloon Bugs
Hole Punch
Balloon bugs presentation (download here)
Balloons of different shapes and sizes, in particular: round, sausage and squiggly shapes
Balloon pump(s)- (optional)
Balloon bugs instruction cards (download here)
Double-sided tape
Permanent markers (various colors)
Tags for labeling the bacteria (download here)
Pipe cleaners, string and/or yarn (to represent flagella)
Rubber bands
Scissors (to cut around the tags)
12.02 – Fashion Chromatography
Isopropyl alcohol (90% or higher)
Small medicine dropper or disposable pipettes
Shallow container made of rigid material (e.g. cup, beaker or dish)
Rubber bands
White fabric: cotton t-shirt, bandana or scarf, washed & dried (do not use fabric softener)
Permanent markers, various colors (dark and/or bright colors work best)
Safety glasses
12.03 – Wind Bag Wonder
A Diaper Genie bag OR
A 10-gallon or larger trash bag OR
Steve Spangler Windbag™
available through Steve Spangler Science at www.stevespanglerscience.com
12.04 – Constellation Light Box
10-bulb LED light strands (should be readily available at dollar store)
Empty cereal box
Picture of your chosen constellation
Reamer/hole punch
Acrylic paint: light blue, dark blue, and dark green (dark colors work best)
Brush
Palette (a bottle cap works well)
White felt tip pen
Painters tape
Glue
Wall sticker (optional)
12.05 – Rainforest In A Bottle
3-liter soda bottle (one per girl)
Gravel
Soil
Grass/other plant seeds
Rubber bands
Water
Scissors
Window screen – 2 sizes: one to cover the mouth of the bottle and one to cover the thickest part of the bottle
12.06 – Glaciers Galore
Scissors
Glue stick
2 sheets of heavy weight paper (such as white card stock)
1 cut-copy of the 3-D Icelandic Glacier Model (available at http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/iceAge/glacierModel.html
12.07 – DeSTEMber Fest @ Bullock
No materials today. Come join us for fun, winter-themed science activities at Bullock!
DeSTEMber 2013 Wrap Up
THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone that participated, shared, followed and/or liked DeSTEMber. Your support and enthusiasm for 31 days of hands-on STEM fun is truly appreciated! A special thanks to all our DeSTEMber partners for their help providing amazing live Google+ Hangouts and videos. To see a list of our DeSTEMber partners click here, then scroll below the calendar.
If you missed an activity, hangout recording or video, don’t worry you can find everything on www.destember.org! Girlstart will continue to add activities, resources, fun facts and more to our Facebook page, Twitter, Google+ communities and don’t miss our Weekly Hands-on Wednesday Blog.
Just around the corner on Monday, January 6th – Summer Camp and our annual Girls In STEM Conference registrations open! Details can be found at www.girlstart.org.