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In this activity, learners build water-propelled engines from soft drink cans.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Students design and build their own parachutes in this hands-on engineering project.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners of all ages will design a functional bird feeder using familiar, every day materials.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners consider the water features they might enjoy at a community park--a pond, brook, water playground (or "sprayground"), or pool--and what happens to the water over time.

Over $20 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners consider how a simple machine, a lever, turns a small push or pull (a small force) into a larger--or stronger--push or pull (a larger force).

Over $20 per group Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners are invited to imagine the park of their dreams!

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will make their own "ball bearing" with two jar lids, marbles, and some household supplies.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners examine baking powder, a combination of three powders: baking soda, cream of tartar, and cornstarch.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this project, students explore how levers work, by making a puppet with moving limbs.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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What's a more compelling problem to solve than being stranded on a deserted island?

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how nanotechnology is being used to create new types of protective fabrics.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use tinfoil to build and test their own boats - which designs will float, and which will sink?

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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Build and test a scale model of a rainforest canopy walkway.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this experiment, learners design and build a model room in a shoebox and furnish it with tiny furniture.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners design, build, and test models of "dragon boats" made from up to three milk cartons.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners design a therapeutic agent to image and/or cure various diseases in the respiratory system.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes