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In this design-based activity, learners explore environments, ecosystems, energy flow and organism interactions by creating a model biodome. Learners become engineers who create model ecosystems.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 4 to 24 hours
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers have met the challenge of keeping foods, liquids, and other items cool.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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This activity teaches combustion as the interaction of a fuel source and oxygen.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 8 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a small batch of biodiesel that will work in any diesel engine. Learners use an old juice bottle as a "reactor" vessel to chemically process vegetable oil into fuel.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 14 - adult 1 to 7 days
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This lesson focuses on two simple activities that younger learners can do to gain an appreciation of nanotechnology. First, learners measure their hands in nanometers.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners are asked to examine the differences between two materials in a pair.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days