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Breathing Room
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In this health activity, learners explore breathing, lungs and asthma. Learners test their lung capacity by blowing air into balloons.
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Crank It Up
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In this engineering activity, learners explore simple machines and then build cardboard automata using cams.
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Five-Layer Density Column
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In this activity, learners can create five-layer density columns by employing one of three (or all) methods.
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Beginning Statistical Inquiries into the Scientific Method: Jelly-Side-Down
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This activity allows learners to explore the scientific method in an open-ended fashion, using the 4-P Approach to Science Inquiry developed by the University of Wisconsin, Beloit.
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Living Bones, Strong Bones
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In this activity about engineering, nutrition, and physical activity, learners design and build a healthy bone model of a space explorer which is strong enough to withstand increasing amounts of weigh
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Insulation Station
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In this physical sciences activity, learners explore insulation. Leaners investigate how insulation can be used to slow down the conduction of heat from one side of a wall to the other.
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Playing with Parachutes
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In this activity, learners explore how parachutes are used to slow down moving objects. Learners work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own parachutes out of everyday items.
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Beam Me Up!
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This is a quick activity (on page 2 of the PDF under Stained Glass Activity) about the "Tyndall effect," the scattering of visible light when it hits very small dispersed particles.
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Our Chemical Senses: Olfaction
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In this activity, learners investigate the olfactory system by conducting several experiments.
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Exploring Structures
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This event guide features three related explorations in which learners investigate the following science concepts: how you design and build a structure helps determine how strong it will be; different
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Shake it up with Seismographs!
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In this activity, learners explore the engineering behind seismographs and how technology has improved accurate recording of earthquakes.
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What Trickles Down?
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Learners design their own experiment to explore the permeability of different materials such as soil, sand, gravel, and marbles.
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Magnetic Marble Run
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Learners explore magnetism and motion as they build a simple marble run. Learners test different arrangements of plastic and cardboard tubes, bottles, and cups on a magnetic board.
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Ship the Chip
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In this activity, learners explore engineering package designs that meet the needs of safely shipping a product.
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Serving Sizes
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In this nutrition and estimation activity (page 12 of PDF), learners estimate serving sizes of different foods and compare their estimates to serving size information provided on nutrition food labels
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Super Gelatin
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Can gelatin (like Jell-O ®) change the speed of light?
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Space Stations: Beans in Space
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In this activity, learners perform 20 arm curls with cans that simulate the weight of beans on Earth versus the weights of the same number of beans on the Moon and in space.
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A Scientific Cleanup
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This is a comprehensive lesson plan on page 85 for a group cleanup trip to a local beach, lake or stream. Learners keep track of the types and amounts of trash picked up and analyze this information.
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I Want to Hold Your Hand
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In this activity, learners construct a robot-like hand to demonstrate how data is collected when using robotic technology.
What's So Special about Water: Absorption
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In this activity about water's cohesive and adhesive properties and why water molecules are attracted to each other, learners test if objects repel or absorb water.