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The Web of Life
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In this activity, learners examine ways that Native Americans of the Southwest express their relationship with nature through art.

Exploring Tessellations (Grades K-2)
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In this activity, learners repeat patterns in two and three dimensions to create tessellations. This activity combines the creativity of an art project with the challenge of solving a puzzle.

Exploring Tessellations (Grades 3-5)
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In this activity, learners repeat patterns in two and three dimensions to create tessellations.
Movin' and Groovin'
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In this math activity, learners play a game and identify patterns with fun moves and sounds. Discover how dancing and signing involve patterns.

Pico Cricket Compass
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Learners can program a compass to draw a circle by itself using a Pico Cricket, some Legos, and lots of tape! Pico Cricket is required.

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.

Bubble Sculpting
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In this activity, learners develop spatial reasoning skills as they blow bubbles and observe what happens when the bubbles connect.

Exploring a Complex Space-Filling Shape
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In this activity, learners build a paper stellated rhombic dodecahedron, a three-dimensional 12-pointed star.

The Poor Cartographer: Graph Coloring
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In this activity, learners help a poor cartographer color in the countries on a map, making sure each country is colored a different color than any of its neighbors.

Beaded Braids: Investigating Patterns & Ratios
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In this activity learners create patterns of hair beads.
Giant Museum: Create a Scale Model
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In this activity, learners will predict the size of a giant scale model of a comb or other rectangular object, then make one. If you tripled the size of a dollar bill, could you sit on it?

Number Sense and Computation: An Apple a Day
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In this math lesson, learners make estimates to analyze the number of apples per acre, and visualize the magnitude of one million.
Look Around: Hunt For Sizes, Shapes and Numbers
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In this activity, learners will participate in a scavenger hunt involving sizes, shapes, and numbers. This activity works well with a whole group, individuals, or families.

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