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

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Coins are everyday objects which tell a lot about the people who use them.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 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 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

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11
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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.

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

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

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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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

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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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.

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

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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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.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners examine the culture and history of the tomb site.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes