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Globe at Night
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In this international citizen science activity, learners measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations into an online database.

Finding the Size of the Sun and Moon
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In this activity, learners build a simple pinhole viewer. They use this apparatus to project images from a variety of light sources, including a candle, the Sun, and the Moon.

Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt
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In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.
What Causes Rainbows?
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In this activity, learners explore how and why rainbows form by creating rainbows in a variety of ways using simple materials. Learners create rainbows indoors and outdoors.

The Thousand-Yard Model
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This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

Safe in the Sun
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In this activity on page 13 of the PDF, use a special plastic card that has been painted with a chemical that changes color when it is in UV light.

Canned Heat
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.