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Puppet Play
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In this activity, learners will make a marionette puppet and put on a show. Learners will explore color, design, fabrication and storytelling through this activity.

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.

Crank It Up
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In this engineering activity, learners explore simple machines and then build cardboard automata using cams.

Digit's Cyber-Dough
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In this fun hands-on activity, learners whip up a batch of cyber-dough (play dough) using math for measurements.

Rotational Equilibrium
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of rotational equilibrium. Learners work in teams to estimate and determine the force within a mobile design.

Kites
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Kites) is a full inquiry investigation into how a kite’s shape affects its performance.

Number Sense and Computation: Money Counts
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In this math lesson, learners count and compare amounts of money less than or equal to one dollar.

Opti-Top
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In this activity, learners will create an optical illusion top. Learners will explore color mixing, physics and design through this activity.

Patterns and Relationships: The Magic Box
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In this math lesson, learners participate in a variety of activities that give them experience in recognizing, describing, and extending repeating and arithmetic patterns.

Burst a Bubble
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In this activity, learners will create their own bubble solution. Learners will explore chemistry, geometry and trial and error through this activity.

Straws and Airplanes
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Create airplanes from straws and geometric shapes. Test them out to see how far they can fly, or how accurately they can be aimed.

Animal House
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The goal of this activity is to design, build and test a house or toy for an animal.

Geometry Construction: Polyhedral Playthings
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In this activity, learners create 3D geometric shapes using straws and pipe cleaners.

Tops
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In this activity, learners discover that some things only stand up while they are spinning.
Ride on a Slide: Toys or Tubes Ride Slopes and Angles
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This activity is a hit for family events and all ages—some will finish in 45 minutes; others can go on for hours.

Construction and Destruction
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In this three/four-day lesson, learners calculate perimeters and areas and draw the castle plan to scale.