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In this activity, learners construct a playable kazoo from inexpensive materials. They will experience how vibration creates sound waves and music.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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During this hands-on activity, learners are briefly exposed to moviemaking and animation, when they create their own thaumatropes.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners make bell bracelets, place them on their wrists or ankles, and then dance to the rhythms and sounds the bells make. Many cultures use ankle or wrist bells to make music during dancing.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity is a fun way to show two stages in a Monarch butterfly's life cycle. Learners will create an optical illusion that can be flipped from caterpillar to butterfly.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners create flip books by drawing an image like an eye opening and closing on 24 small pages of paper.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners build an animation tool to make mini movies. When you spin a phenakistascope, the pictures move so quickly that your eyes and brain can't separate the images.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore light, color and rainbows by making their own rainbow glasses.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners discuss and investigate how cameras, telescopes, and their own eyes use light in similar ways.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this simple and fun activity, learners discover the relationship between vibration and sound by making a squeaky toy instrument out of simple household materials.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover that it is difficult to trace a curve by using its reflection in a mirror. Use this activity to discuss how the brain works.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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Up close, an array of dots could look random, but take a step back, and an image forms. By tracing over an image, learners can create their own dot based image.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (posted on March 27, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a mini zoetrope, a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (15th activity on the page) about the sense of touch, learners use glue and cardboard to construct a maze they use with their eyes closed.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Create your own spinning top, and explore color, shapes and spinning. This activity contains instructions for making your spinning top, and tips on how to design and decorate it.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 8 5 to 10 minutes
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This hands-on activity shows you how to make a shaker -- a small instrument with a big sound! Fill it with beads or even pennies for a cool sound.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Create 3D glasses and use them to explore color, light and optics. Fool your brain into 'seeing' three dimensions on a flat surface!

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a straw oboe to explore sound and pitch.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners use everyday materials to make a color wheel. When learners spin the wheel like a top, they will be surprised to see all the colors mixing together to appear white.

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