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

In this arts and crafts activity about animals and animal characteristics, learners will design animal hats and role-play as animals.

This is an activity in which learners explore the effects of gravity, motion and momentum while creating art.

In this activity, early learners combine pre-cut recognizable shapes and their own abstract ideas to make representational pictures (e.g. houses, trees, shoes).

In this activity, learners use their imaginations and experiment with different materials to create bug hats.

This is a tape and glue activity in which learners make binoculars that they can decorate and then use to go bird watching.

In this activity (on pages 41-47 of PDF), learners explore tesselating geometric patterns (repeated shapes, similar to the art of M.C. Escher).

In this activity, learners explore color, light and shadow by creating their own puppets to hold in front of a light source.

In this crafty chemistry activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners make their own paper from used paper they may have otherwise thrown away.

In this activity (on pages 55-66 of PDF), learners fold paper into origami shapes and then combine several identical shapes into a three-dimensional structure.

In this engineering design activity, learners will design, test, and build a “haunting machine” to solve a Sherlockian mystery.

This lesson (on pages 46-55 of PDF) features two strategy board games -- one from Ghana and one from China. The first game, Achi, is a cross between checkers and tic-tac-toe.

In this activity, leaners explore building techniques by recreating the story of The Three Little Pigs.

In this activity about encryption, learners cut out a secret decoder badge from a handout and use it to encode messages to each other.

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

In this activity, a group of learners work collaboratively to design and construct a paper model showing the evolution of an environment through multiple stages, from prehistory through the modern cit