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Shaking It!
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In this experiment, learners design and build a model room in a shoebox and furnish it with tiny furniture.

Skewers and Garden Poles
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In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

Design and Build a Better Candy Bag
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In this activity, learners explore how product design differences can affect the success of a final product -- in this case a bag for holding candy.

Draggin' Boats
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Learners design, build, and test models of "dragon boats" made from up to three milk cartons.

Sugar Crystal Challenge
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This lesson focuses on surface area and how the shape of sugar crystals may differ as they are grown from sugars of different coarseness.

Exploring the Solar System: Asteroid Mining
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In this activity, learners will imagine the challenges and opportunities of asteroid mining.

Evolution in Plane Sight
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In this activity, learners model directed evolution by making paper fly. Learners construct and fly paper airplanes.

Lift Off!
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Lift Off) is a full inquiry investigation into the engineering challenges of sending scientific sensors into space.

Working with Wind Energy
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In this activity, learners explore how wind energy can be generated on both a large and small scale.

Garden Poles
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In this activity, learners build large-scale structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with garden poles and tape.

Milk Carton Boats
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF SciGirls Activity: Milk Carton Boat) is a full inquiry investigation into boat hull design.

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.

Nano Latch-n-Catch
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In this activity, learners design a therapeutic agent to image and/or cure various diseases in the respiratory system.