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Creepy Crawlers
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Trick your family and friends with this creepy crawler that moves up and down. In this activity, learners construct a circuit and motor device that will move a homemade spider in a spooky way.
Color Draw
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In this activity, learners use their understanding of probability to guess which color will be drawn from a bag.
Who Goes There?
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In this outdoor, night activity, learners track nocturnal animals' footprints, droppings and other signs of their presence.
Odors Aloft
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Learners smell balloons filled with different scents to guess what's inside. From this, they infer the presence and motion of scented molecules.
Sled Kite
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In this activity, learners build a sled kite that models a type of airfoil called a parawing.
Kool Colors
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Learners investigate how temperature affects the rate of chemical reactions by observing how steel wool reacts with various types of Kool-Aid solutions at different temperatures.
The Electric Squeeze
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In this activity/demo about piezoelectricity, learners discover how some crystals produce electricity when squeezed.
Nano Ice Cream
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In this activity/demo, learners discover how liquid nitrogen cools a creamy mixture at such a rapid rate that it precipitates super fine grained (nano) ice cream.
Crawdad Grab
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In this outdoor, freshwater activity, learners explore the behavior and food preferences of crawdads (or crabs) by "fishing" for them with various baits.
Patterns and Relationships: Peddling Petals
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In this math lesson, learners use the setting of a flower-making fundraiser to explore a variety of patterns. Learners examine the patterns in a flower design made of triangles surrounding a square.
Pace-Off!
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In this math activity, learners use non-standard measurement (paces) to find the distance from one point to another. Learners practice estimating and measuring distances .
Guess My Number
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In this math activity, learners play a game similar to 20 Questions, in which learners must identify a secret number drawn from a bag.
Make a Dinosaur Model
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons, anatomy, and locomotion. Learners compare and contrast dinosaur skeletons and drawings.
Inkjet Printer
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In this activity, learners investigate how inkjet printers produce tiny, precise drops of ink.
Metamorphosis Matching
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This is an activity where learners will compare the different metamorphosis stages of amphibians.
Do the Mystery Samples Contain Life?
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In this activity (on pages 13-16 of the PDF) learners investigate three mystery samples to see which one contains life. The three samples are sand, sand and yeast, and sand and antacid.
Habitat Adaptation Matchup
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In this activity, learners work in small groups to match various marine animals with their different environments.
Invent an Insect
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In this creative activity, learners will find out what makes an insect an insect by studying examples of insect adaptations and by examining why there are so many different types of insects.
There’s No Place Like Home!
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In this activity, learners make their own bug boxes and test the habitat preference of selected "minibeasts" (bugs).
It's a Gas, Man
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In this activity, learners discover if carbon dioxide has an effect on temperature.