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Hot Stuff!: Testing for Carbon Dioxide from Our Own Breath
Learners blow into balloons and collect their breath--carbon dioxide gas (CO2). They then blow the CO2 from the balloon into a solution of acid-base indicator.
Floating Candles
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In this chemistry activity, learners observe a combustion reaction and deduce the components necessary for the reaction to occur.
Valves and Pumps: A Demonstration
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This is a demonstration you can use to show learners how valves and pumps work in concert to move blood through the circulatory system.
Dancing Spaghetti
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In this chemistry activity, learners use spaghetti to explore density and chemical reactions.
Production of Oxygen
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In this chemistry activity, learners use yeast and hydrogen peroxide to generate a gas (oxygen) and test some of its properties.
Bernoulli Levitator
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Demonstrate the Bernoulli Principle using simple materials on a small or large scale.
Why is the Sky Blue?
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In this activity, learners use a flashlight, a glass of water, and some milk to examine why the sky is blue and sunsets are red.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Robot
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This is an activity about robotics programming. Learners will discover how precise programmers have to be as they instruct a friend to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Become a Neurologist: Detective Threshold
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In this neuroscience activity (4th activity on the page), learners make their own set of Von Frey hairs to test detection thresholds.
A Stand-up Egg
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In this science trick, learners get an egg to stand-up on its long-axis vertical to a table's top.
Hot Sauce Hot Spots
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In this activity, learners model hot spot island formation, orientation and progression with condiments.
Six Squares: Geometry and Design
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In this activity, learners take a turn contributing a closed figure made of six squares to a large grid; each must be different from all the others on the grid so far.
Exploring the Solar System: Big Sun, Small Moon
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“Exploring the Solar System: Big Sun, Small Moon” is a hands-on activity that explores the concept of apparent size and allows visitors to experience this phenomena using familiar objects—a tennis bal
Exploring Earth: Land Cover
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This activity models some of the ways natural processes, such as erosion and sediment pollution, affect Earth’s landscape.
Antibody Builder
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Learners use Duplo bricks to build antibodies with shapes that match model viruses.
Food to Fuel
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In this activity, learners will explore the foods that are in their kitchen and what sugars are inside of them. Explore nutrition and food labels to better understand the foods you eat.
The Great Balloon Race
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In this online Flash game, learners take to the skies in a hot air balloon and are challenged to beat other balloonists' times to the finish line without crashing.
Mystery Jars: Estimate Contents
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This activity puts a mathematical twist on the familiar “guessing jar.” No guesses allowed, estimates only.
Color Contrast
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Do you have a hard time matching paint swatches with your furniture? When you consider human perception, color is context dependent.
Factors and Multiples Puzzle
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This puzzle provides an interesting context which challenges learners to apply their knowledge of the properties of numbers.