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Engineered Music
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In this activity, learners explore how musical instruments are engineered.

Positive Planning Adds Up
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In this drawing/mapping activity, learners design plots of land while incorporating positive strategies for improving water quality.

Ancient Sun Observations
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In this activity, learners make their own Sun tracker to explore how ancient civilizations around the world studied the Sun.

Design and Build a Wind Vane
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In this activity, learners design and build a simple wind vane —one of the oldest kinds of weather tools— and use it to show wind direction.

Excavating and Mapping Under Water
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In this archaeology activity, learners consider ways in which excavating an underwater site is different from excavating a terrestrial site.

Construction and Destruction
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In this three/four-day lesson, learners calculate perimeters and areas and draw the castle plan to scale.

Mountain Man Measurement Rendezvous
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In this math lesson, learners participate in several activities where they apply measurement skills.

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

If You Lived in a Forest
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This activity encourages learners to focus on the natural environment of the Eastern Woodlands before the arrival of European settlers.

Building Bingo
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In this on site "field trip" activity (located on pages 6-9 of PDF), learners get hands-on experience identifying building materials by playing "Building Bingo".

Environmental Chemistry
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In this activity with several mini experiments, learners explore the chemistry that helps scientists learn about the environment and how they can help save it.

Space Elevator
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In this activity, learners imagine what the world might look like if we could build an elevator to space!

Waterproof that Roof!
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers have improved roofing designs and materials in order to protect the contents of buildings.

Build Your Own Robot Arm
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In this lesson, learners develop a robot arm using common materials. Learners explore design, construction, and teamwork, as well as materials selection and use.

Arctic Sea Ice
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In this activity, learners explore how the area of Arctic sea ice has changed over recent years. First, learners graph the area of Arctic sea ice over time from 1979 to 2007.

Folding Matters
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In this activity, learners explore how the process of folding has impacts on engineering and is evident in nature.

From the Internet to Outer Space
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In this activity, learners will use Google Sky to observe features of the night sky and share their observations.
Building a Community From the Ground Up
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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