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Great Steamboat Race
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In this outdoor activity, learners race small boats, made of cork, balsa wood, popsicle sticks etc., to investigate the rate and direction of currents in a stream or creek.
Dinosaur Flesh and Bones
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons.
Invent on the Spot
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In this activity, learners design a device to solve a problem: how to get a ball out of a drain pipe.
Compare Dinosaur Body Parts
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In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "The Littlest Dinosaurs" by Bernard Most to learn about the different sizes of dinosaurs.
Algebra: Aw Chute!
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In this math lesson, learners determine and compare the rate of descent of various learner-constructed parachutes. Learners construct parachutes that will have maximum hang times.
Probability: Remove One
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In this math lesson, learners are given 15 chips and a number line labeled from 2-12.
Sleep Patterns
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In this activity about sleep rhythms (on page 21 of the PDF), learners will collect data about their own sleep cycles and use a fraction wheel to examine their data.
Community Wind Project
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In this thought-provoking activity, learners plan a hypothetical project to build and operate wind turbines in their community.
Weather Vane
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In this meteorology activity, learners build weather vanes using straws, paperclips, and cardstock.
Sharks: Taking a Bite Out of The Myth
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In this activity, learners will explore trends in shark populations using shark landing data from the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Patterns and Functions: Fill 'er Up
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In this math lesson, learners predict, interpret, and sketch graphs of functions related to the shapes of bottles. A measure of water is poured into a container.
Computation and Estimation: Roll Out The Barrel
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In this math lesson, learners apply mathematical modeling to solve a real-world storage problem, in which a manufacturing company is given two options for storing oil barrels.
Fun with Shapes
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In this activity, early learners combine pre-cut recognizable shapes and their own abstract ideas to make representational pictures (e.g. houses, trees, shoes).
Spaghetti Bridge
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Learners explore the field of civil engineering by making a bridge using spaghetti as their primary building material.
Rates of Change: Bottles and Divers
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In this math lesson (page 2 of the PDF), learners use bottles of various shapes to explore the abstract concept of rate of change.
Mix & Match Estimation
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In this activity, learners use their estimation skills to match the unmarked containers to their amounts.
Alien Encounter
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Use multiplication to help the aliens find out how much fuel they need to get their spacecrafts home.
Low-Tech Water Filter for High-Impact Clean
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In this activity, learners consider the water features they might enjoy at a community park--a pond, brook, water playground (or "sprayground"), or pool--and what happens to the water over time.
Photolithography
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In this activity, learners use UV light to transfer a pattern onto a plastic board. The pattern is transferred by placing a mask (a transparency sheet with the pattern) on a plastic board.
Levers at Play
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In this activity, learners consider how a simple machine, a lever, turns a small push or pull (a small force) into a larger--or stronger--push or pull (a larger force).