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Make a Totem Pole
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In this activity (on page 2 of PDF), learners make their own totem poles out of recycled materials.

Mint Your Own Coin
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Coins are everyday objects which tell a lot about the people who use them.

Horse Gaits Flipbooks
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In this activity, learners explore the gait of horses by constructing flipbooks with British photographer Eadweard Muybridge's famous photographs.

Read Without Seeing
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Learners write a message in Braille using beans to form the patterns of dots. Learners glue beans in place, and then challenge another learner to read the message.

Postcards from Space
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Using information from the My Place in Space lithograph, learners write and/or draw a postcard to friends and family as if they had gone beyond the interstellar boundary of our Solar System, into the

Be a Plumber
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In this activity (located on page 6 of the PDF), learners explore the ways people access water in their homes.

Draft Detectives
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In this two part activity, learners become draft detectives by constructing their own draft catchers to detect drafts around windows or doors.

Ancient Sun Observations
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In this activity, learners make their own Sun tracker to explore how ancient civilizations around the world studied the Sun.

Quipus
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Learners create an Incan counting device called a quipu (pronounced kee-poo).

Space Elevator
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In this activity, learners imagine what the world might look like if we could build an elevator to space!

From the Internet to Outer Space
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In this activity, learners will use Google Sky to observe features of the night sky and share their observations.