Science Surfing Physics

The Atoms Family

By Science News

Dracula doesn’t want to suck your blood. He wants you to enter his online library and learn about the properties of light, waves, and particles. Here at “The Atoms Family” Web pages, created by the Miami Museum of Science, Dracula and four other silver-screen ghouls invite Web surfers into their laboratories to try out physics experiments geared to children from kindergarten to grade 12.

Go to: http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/index.html

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