The Couch Potato Lab
The Couch Potato Lab (CPL) are online episodes that cover curriculum-based content in fun and creative ways through experiments, demonstrations and activities!
Latest Couch Potato Episodes
Ep 2: A Wacky Way to Weigh
Let’s build our own SCALES with household materials and learn about weight and volume! Now let’s get a little WACKY!!!
Ep 1: Sink Or Swim
What allows us to float on water? It’s buoyant force! We’ll be making an apparatus that stays neutrally buoyant in water
Ep 3: Banana Dissection
All good surgeons need to practice their technique on specimens other than living humans! Understanding the planes of our human body give surgeons an indication of where and how to make incisions
Ep 4: DNA: It’s Bananas!
DNA: It’s bananas…for real! Using those leftover bananas from our Banana Dissection activity, let’s take a look at what makes a banana a banana!
Ep 5: When EYES Gives You Lemons
EYES will take you on a journey to explore whether or not the tasty summer treat lemonade is a mixture or solution.
Ep 6: Take a Breath!
Yes, my friends, we are talking about breathing! How do we breathe? Also, why do we breathe? Learn the ins and outs of breathing in this fun episode!
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