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Shape Detectives
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In this activity, learners cutout a set of shape finder templates to explore shapes in the world around them.
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Engineering Ups and Downs
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In this activity, learners explore the engineering and principles behind working elevators.
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Sum of Your Parts
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A group of 6 learners works together as a team with each learner performing a different role. Together, they need to maneuver a die through a maze.
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Speedy Shelter
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In this design challenge activity, learners invent an emergency shelter that can fit a person and is sturdy and quick to build.
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Yeast DNA Extraction
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This laboratory exercise is designed to show learners how DNA can easily be extracted from yeast using simple materials.
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Let's Make Music
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In this activity, learners will create their own percussion instrument with recycled materials. Learners will explore design, fabrication, cause and effect and sound through this activity.
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Ramp Painting
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In this activity, learners will dip different items in paint and then roll those items down a ramp. Learners will use science process skills such as observations and experimenting.
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Hot Stuff!
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In this activity, learners discover that sand is the major ingredient in glass.
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A Model Nuclear Power Plant Steam Turbine
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In this activity (on pages 20-23 of PDF), learners build a model of a power plant using simple materials.
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Tourist Town: Dominating Sets
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In this activity, learners use a fictitious map of "Tourist Town" and counters to problem solve how to place ice-cream vans on street intersections so that every other intersection is connected to one
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Topological Puzzles
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In this activity, learners construct three math puzzles out of simple materials like wood, string, and Styrofoam.
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Roller Coasters
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In this design challenge, learners will create their own roller coaster using household objects for the track and a marble or small ball as their cart.
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Make a Lake
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Where rainwater goes after the rain stops? And why there are rivers and lakes in some parts of the land but not in others?
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Kidbots
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In this activity, one person acts as a human robot while another acts as their developer by programming their actions.
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Design-a-Fish
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In this science and language arts activity, learners study fish anatomy and make their very own 3D paper fish.
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Measure the Sun's Size
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In this activity, learners make their own pinhole viewer in order to measure the size of the sun.
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Pictures From Light
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Did you know that using a lens one can bend light to make pictures of the world? It's true!
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Exploring the Solar System: Craters
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"Exploring the Solar System: Craters" is an active, hands-on activity that demonstrates how craters form, and what they can teach us about the history and composition of planets and moons.
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Sail Car Design
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This activity (on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Sailboat Design Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into design optimization.
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Layered Fossil Parfait: Deeper is Older
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur fossils by making an edible treat. First, learners read "Dinosaur Bones" by Aliki to examine how fossils are formed.