Projects and Fun Activities Index

Homeschoolers and unschoolers do most of their learning by doing projects and fun activities: it's a creative way to learn! Perhaps you've done a project that you'd like to share with others? You can write and tell us about it if you like, or if you've developed a webpage then we can create a link to it...

Science projects and experiments, history projects, art and craft projects - we'd love to publish or link to any type of project! See the submission guidelines below to find out how to have your project published in Unschool~Kidz!

The Cartesian Diver

Audrey and Rouan sent this fun science experiment.

Method

1. Fill a 1.5 litre plastic bottle with warm water and scrape off the label.
2. Make your 'diver' from a felt-tip lid (the sort without little holes), weighted with bluetak. The bluetak should form a ring around the opening of the lid but not cover the opening.
3. Place the diver in the bottle of water and replace the lid on the bottle, leaving a small gap of air.
4. Squeeze the bottle and the diver should dive. Release and it will return to the top of the bottle. You may need to adjust the amount of air.

Note: the Cartesian diver is named after the French philosopher Descartes

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