Most of the time, we encourage our viewers to follow along with our Science Sunday experiments at home. Our segment today is not the case. We have actually taken our experiment outside on our plaza because we will be lighting steel wool on fire. Now, with most items when they burn, they get lighter because we are burning ash away. Steel wool acts a little bit different when it is burned, can you guess what happens? Watch the full Science Sunday segment below to learn more.
There is so much more Science Sunday to explore. Check out the full gallery of segments on our blog: https://ctsciencecenter.org/blog_categories/science-play/.
Aoife Ryle is the Education Programs Manager at the Connecticut Science Center. In addition to working with school groups, she works with our Teen Program, and shoots weekly science segments for WFSB. She has a degree in Bioengineering from the University of Maine and has a personal interest in the life sciences and engineering which makes bioengineering a perfect crossover.
Mark Dixon is a meteorologist on WFSB Channel 3 Eyewitness News and a host of the weekly Science Sunday segments with the Connecticut Science Center. He has been nominated for several Emmy awards for weather anchoring and has won awards from the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcaster’s Association and the American Meteorological Society.
