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Thaumatropes
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In this activity, learners will make a thaumatrope, an old-fashioned optical illusion that dates back to the 1820s.
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Zoomers
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In this activity, learners build their own rockets from paper, coffee stirrers, and tape. Learners discover that when anything flies, air pressure is always involved.
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Ramps 2: Ramp Builder
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In this inquiry-based learning activity, learners design, build, and test their own ramps. They are introduced to a variety of materials and explore putting them together.
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Make a Salt Volcano (Lava Lite)
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This activity about density provides instructions for making a miniature "lava lite" with just salt, oil, water, and food coloring.
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Digger
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In this activity, learners build their own construction cranes using tongue depressors and pushpins.
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3D-tection: Trying to Fit In
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In this activity, learners explore how molecules must fit together, like a lock and key, in order to identify each other and initiate a new function as a combined unit.
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Balloon Car
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In this activity, learners explore force and motion by constructing cardboard cars that are propelled by balloons.
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Slide Whistle
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In this activity, learners build a slide whistle using PVC pipe, bamboo skewer, and piece of foam. Construction of the instrument is relatively simple.
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Finger Basketball
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In this activity, learners build mini-basketball courts using cardboard and measuring spoons. Use this activity to introduce learners to catapults, forces, and levers.
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Rolling Returns
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In this activity, learners build a special rolling can that returns back to you when you push it forward. Use this activity to demonstrate the transfer of energy between kinetic and potential energy.
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Football
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In this math activity (Page 10 of the Play Ball! PDF), learners play a game of "football" and analyze the results of the game.
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Bubble Suspension
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In this activity, learners observe as soap bubbles float on a cushion of carbon dioxide gas. Learners blow bubbles into an aquarium filled with a slab of dry ice.
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Extra Bounce
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In this indoor or outdoor demonstration, use a large and small ball to illustrate conservation of energy and momentum.
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Helicopters
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In this activity, learners will observe how air interacts with a paper helicopter. Learners will test different variables of weight, size, and shape.
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Lift Off!
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Lift Off) is a full inquiry investigation into the engineering challenges of sending scientific sensors into space.
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Glitter Globe
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This activity shows learners (with adult supervision) how to make a Glitter Globe, a fabulous toy that shimmers when you shake it.
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Whirling Watcher: Make a Stroboscope
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In this activity, learners make a stroboscope--a spinning disk with slits around the edge that you look through.
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Marble Challenge
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In this physics activity (page 6 of the PDF), learners will try to keep a marble in a bottomless cup without touching the marble inside.
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Exploring Tools: Mitten Challenge
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In this activity, learners build a LEGO® structure while wearing mittens. This activity shows learners how difficult it is to build small things when your tools are too big.
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Torsion Drum
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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.