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Disappearing Statues
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In this activity (on page 8), learners model how marble statues and buildings are affected by acid rain.

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

Pinhole Viewer
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In this activity, learners discuss and investigate how cameras, telescopes, and their own eyes use light in similar ways.

Building a 3-D Space Maze: Escher Staircase
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In this activity (page 95 of the PDF), learners create Escher Staircase models similar to those that were used by Neurolab's Spatial Orientation Team to investigate the processing of information about

Getting There!: Navigation and Trajectory
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In this two-part activity, learners map a navigation plan to get from Earth to Mars and back. In activity one, learners represent the orbital paths of Earth through dance and dramatic movement.

Nature Drawing
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In this family or group activity, learners create a nature journal by visiting a local nature center or backyard, observing creatures in their natural habitats, and sketching what they see.

Constellation Scope
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In this activity, young learners explore the basic shapes of constellations by making their own scope out of a cardboard tube and paper with pinpricks.

DIY Sunprints
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In this activity, learners will see how UV light affects colors over time by making their own sunprint on construction paper.

Crazy Camouflage
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In this activity about camouflage, learners create a model that shows how a flounder is able to blend into a variety of environments.

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

Rainbow in the Room
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This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.

Solving Dissolving
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The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá is a sink hole, or well, containing groundwater. In this activity, learners create their own cenote using chalk, limestone, acids, and rain water.

Paint by the Numbers
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In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

Origami Flying Disk
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In this three-part activity, learners use paper to explore Bernoulli's Principle — fast-moving air has lower pressure than non-moving air.

Tomb Mapping
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In this activity, learners examine the culture and history of the tomb site.