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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.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners engineer a paper helicopter that spins to the ground when dropped.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This is an activity about lung capacity. Learners will measure their own lung capacity using a homemade spirometer.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this hands-on activity, children create their own kites that can fly indoors. Learners are exposed to basic concepts of gravity and air resistance.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This is a great activity for investigating the basics of lift and drag as they pertain to flight. Learners will discover how to avoid "taking a nosedive" by building their own paper airplane.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Investigate how force and thrust work to propel rockets into outer space. Build a rocket: a blown-up balloon taped to a drinking straw threaded through some string.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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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.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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The goal of this activity is to build a miniature bobsled that is either the fastest or the slowest. Learners use recycled materials to design, build, and test their bobsled on a bobsled track.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make and test fly paper helicopters. Learners use templates to create paper helicopters and then take take turns flying them in the air.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes