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Float Your Boat
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In this physics activity, learners will explore buoyancy.
Race to the Dollar
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In this math activity, learners play a card game to practice adding coins quickly, just like a banker. First, learners create coin cards. Next, the cards are dealt to each player.
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Mechanical Grabber
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In this engineering activity, challenge learners to make a "grabber" that can pick up trash. Learners use simple materials to create pinchers that can grab small items.
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Circle Logic
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This is a deceptively simple game to teach strategy, planning, and pattern analysis. In this game, learners take turns removing tokens from a board, and develop a plan to take the last piece.
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Color Spy
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In this activity (16th on the page), learners play a variation of the "I Spy" game to explore color. Learners work in teams with each team assigned a color.
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Afterimage
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In this activity about light and perception, learners discover how a flash of light can create a lingering image called an "afterimage" on the retina of the eye.
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Origami DNA
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In this activity, learners create an origami model of DNA, demonstrating its double helix structure.
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Current Events
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Learners model the ocean currents that carry hot water from the tropics to northern latitudes.
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Tie Dye Secret Messages
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In this activity, learners will write a secret message that only their friends will be able to read.
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Topographic Investigation: Map an Underwater Surface
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In this activity, learners create a map of a hidden surface using a "sounding stick" -- a technique similar to how underwater maps were once made.
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Symmetry of Butterfly Wings
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In this activity, learners investigate balance and symmetry by designing a symmetrical butterfly, using a paper cutout.
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Magnetic Sensory Bottles
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In this activity learners will investigate magnetic and non-magnetic items in a sensory bottle.
Dowels and Rubber Bands I
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If you have 3-foot dowels and rubber bands, you can can started on this fun and open design challenge. You can make structures big and small: make it so you can fit your parent into it!
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Hang Time
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Learn how to make and fly a paper helicopter! This simple activity includes a template (for the copter "blades") and instructions for folding, flying, and testing designs.
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Electroscope
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In this activity, learners make an electroscope out of a foam cup, straw, aluminum pie pan, thread, and foil. Learners use their electroscopes to test for static electricity.
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How do we name things?
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In this activity, learners will learn a bit about botany as the explore botanical names and common names of plants.
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Phenakistascope
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In this optics activity, learners build an animation tool to make mini movies. When you spin a phenakistascope, the pictures move so quickly that your eyes and brain can't separate the images.
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If Hot Air Rises, Why is it Cold in the Mountains?
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This demonstration/activity helps learners understand why higher elevations are not always warm simply because "hot air rises." Learners use a tire pump to increase the pressure and temperature inside
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Testing Antimicrobials:: Antibacterial Soap? Do They All Work the Same?
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Many common household cleaners are antimicrobials.
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Life in the Sidewalk Cracks
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In this activity, learners compare plant and animal life in different habitats including a sidewalk crack and lawn. Learners sort human-made materials and natural materials found in each habitat.