Get smart curated videos delivered to your inbox.   SUBSCRIBE
The Kid Should See This

How to make Pearls of Water – Science Demo

Watch more with these video collections:

Gravitational acceleration + optical illusions + how to! In this Get Set… Demonstrate, science teacher Alom Shaha shows step by step how to create Pearls of Water, a physics-defying demonstration that must look even more unbelievable in person than it does on video.

And if you want to see this in person, the instructions, equipment list, and safety notes for setting it up are here (pdf).

Want to see similar versions of this illusion? Check out artist Matt Kenyon’s Supermajor and Brusspup’s Amazing Water and Sound Experiment.

via Science Demo.

This Webby award-winning video collection exists to help teachers, librarians, and families spark kid wonder and curiosity. TKSST features smarter, more meaningful content than what's usually served up by YouTube's algorithms, and amplifies the creators who make that content.

Curated, kid-friendly, independently-published. Support this mission by becoming a sustaining member today.

🌈 Watch these videos next...

Which ball will race to the bottom first?

Rion Nakaya

What happens to balloon animals in liquid nitrogen?

Rion Nakaya

What happens to a flame in an electric field?

Rion Nakaya

What does the word ‘theory’ mean in science?

Rion Nakaya

Weight distribution on light bulbs and eggs, a physics demonstration

Rion Nakaya

The most amazing thing about domino chain reactions

Rion Nakaya

The Heart of Maker Faire, a community-inspired light installation

Rion Nakaya

Supermajor: Is this oil really flowing back up into the oil can?

Rion Nakaya

Spontaneous Synchronization, a UCLA physics demonstration

Rion Nakaya