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In this activity, learners explore the relationship between cooling water vapor and condensation. Learners investigate condensation forming on the outside of a cold cup.

What keeps bubbles and other things, like airplanes, floating or flying in the air?

In this activity, learners will create unique rockets. Each rocket will be powered by air as the learner will blow into a straw and watch their rocket fly.

In this activity, learners engineer a paper helicopter that spins to the ground when dropped.

This is an activity about lung capacity. Learners will measure their own lung capacity using a homemade spirometer.

Explore the effects of gravity on a slowly falling object: a parachute you make out of plastic bags, string and stones.

Learners cut and fold a paper helicopter from the template in this PDF. They practice twirling the helicopter and observe what happens as they modify their tries.

In this physics activity, learners will explore buoyancy.

In this activity, learners make film canister rocket ships. A fin pattern is glued onto the outside of the canister, and fuel (water and half an antacid tablet) is mixed inside the canister.

In "Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets," participants learn about how some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space, and how a special kind of rocket called "sounding rockets" can