Teaching Education

Cavitate and explode a beer bottle with your bare hand

How to cavitate and explode a beer bottle with your bare hand

The hidden science behind the bottle-smash trick? Cavitation! Check out this instructional video. If you have a home-built vacuum water bottle, you can easily see the violent implosions as they happen.

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Build Stonehenge with physics

How to build Stonehenge with physics

Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his ...

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Make exploding dry ice bubbles

How to make exploding dry ice bubbles

Mr Brunner shows us how to grow dry ice bubbles in buckets. You need soap, cloth strips and a big bowl. Oh and of course dry ice. This takes a couple of minutes to explode so be patient.

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Make a really foamy reaction with elephant toothpaste

How to make a really foamy reaction with elephant toothpaste

Elephant toothpaste is the name given to the catalyzed decomposition reaction of 30% hydrogen peroxide that uses soap to collect the oxgen gas that is produced. It is a favorite of most students at chemistry ...

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Speed read

How to speed read

So much to read, so little time! Cut your bookreading time in half. Or more. This technique actually works. It trains your mind to interpret characters, words and paragraphs differently. In effect, you read ...

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How To Create a Positive Classroom Atmosphere

Create a Positive Classroom Atmosphere

A positive atmosphere can make a classroom a more pleasant place to be and, in turn, a more effective, motivating place to learn. It's ...more

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How To Deliver Effective Presentations

Deliver Effective Presentations

"O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters..." William Shakespeare: Hamlet - Act 3 ...more

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How To Dress a Deer

Dress a Deer

Warning This article contains graphic images that may not be suitable for children or the squeamish. Proceed at your own risk. Once you have ...more

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How To Evaluate a Class Room for Acoustical Renovation

Evaluate a Class Room for Acoustical Renovation

Background noises and reverberations in classrooms distract children ...more

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How To Help Your Child Prepare for Exams

Help Your Child Prepare for Exams

Taking an exam for the first time can be a nervewracking experience for a young student which can highly affect his or her grades. While you ...more

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How To Make Tests Fun

Make Tests Fun

Testing is a necessary part of any education process. Without tests, there is no way of knowing whether anything has been learned. Most ...more

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How To Motivate Students

Motivate Students

Teaching students is not exactly easy. Motivating students is even more difficult. In a school or college environment you have to constantly ...more

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How To Prepare to Teach English in Japan

Prepare to Teach English in Japan

If you're recently graduated, or are thinking of a career change, you might want to look into teaching English in Japan. Besides a pretty ...more

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How To Prevent Students from Cheating

Prevent Students from Cheating

Teachers owe it to their students to create an environment in which cheating is discouraged and very difficult. It is not fair to dangle ...more

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How To Resist Bossing a Slow Learner

Resist Bossing a Slow Learner

It's only natural that some people learn more slowly than others. Understandably this can sometimes lead to much frustration and ...more

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How To Set Up a Class Contract or Classroom Rules

Set Up a Class Contract or Classroom Rules

Is there something in your school environment that needs to be challenged and improved upon? Perhaps there is bullying, frequent cursing or ...more

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How To Teach Vocabulary by Creating a Monster

Teach Vocabulary by Creating a Monster

If your students or children are learning vocabulary , why not try creating a monster for fun? Vocabulary lessons, especially for basic ...more

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How To Teach with Total Physical Response

Teach with Total Physical Response

Total Physical Response is largely about movement. This works with students of all ages, but especially with the K-12 schooling system. By ...more

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How To Write a Persuasive Speech

Write a Persuasive Speech

There are a lot of things to consider and understand prior to writing a persuasive speech. In order to influence others, you have to ...more

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Teaching (14 how-to articles)

Creepy Crawler Ant Robot

Wow, this robot has incredible movement. "A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen (tail), a 3 DOF head with large mandibles. 6 legs with 3 DOF each. Total 25 servos ...

Remote Control Your Lawn Mower

Time to make those lazy Sunday afternoons even lazier. Instructables member johndavid400 has posted a full HowTo on modding your lawn mower to operate via remote control. " ...How to make your ...

Why Buy a Car When You Can Build-It-Yourself?

BBC show Top Gear has built a homemade electric car in just 18 hours: the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust. According to Autocar,  "...the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust is a road legal car/shed that ...

Obama! Are You Eating that Chicken Wing Correctly?

Yes, there is a right way and a wrong way to eat a chicken wing. And yes, Obama likes chicken wings just like everybody else does. Here's how you do it, courtesy of Food Wishes (also, here's several ...

SPLAT! Art Made from Everyday Household Items

Tom Friedman. One of my very favorite contemporary artists. Friedman injects the wonder into the humdrum. He creates magic from the unsuspected with his incredible sculptures assembled from simple ...

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