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The Jelly Bean Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore how their sense of smell affects their taste buds. Learners taste different flavored jelly beans while holding their nose.
Your Sense of Taste: Discover the real taste of candy
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Your tongue can sense about 6 different flavors (salty, sweet, bitter, sour, umami/savory, and fat), but your nose provides a lot more "taste" information than you realize when you eat.
Wrap It Up!
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In this Energy and Environment activity (page 9 of the PDF), learners calculate the mass of a piece of gum, compare it to the mass of the gum's packaging, and then create a bar graph of the results.
Digestive System: A Kinesthetic Lesson
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In this simulation, learners act out each digestive function of the organs, tissues, and cells in the digestive tract.
Canned Heat
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.
Demonstrating An Epidemic
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This experiment allows learners to experience a small scale "epidemic," demonstrating the ease with which disease organisms are spread, and enables learners to determine the originator of the "epidemi
Survival of the Fittest: Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection by encouraging them to formulate questions that can be answered through scientific investi
Survival of the Fittest: Battling Beetles
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection through data collection and pattern recognition.
Melts in Your Bag, Not in Your Hand
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In this activity, learners use chocolate to explore how the Sun transfers heat to the Earth through radiation.
Exponential Models: Rhinos and M&M’s ®
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In this math lesson, learners model exponential decay and exponential growth using M&M's, paper folding, and African rhino population data.