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Views From Windows
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In this activity, learners use their imaginations and picture a scene in their heads.
Mix and Match
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In this optics activity, learners explore color by examining color dots through colored water and the light of a flashlight.
Paper Lanterns
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In this activity, learners explore light and shadows by creating a lantern they can keep on their nightstand.
Morphing Butterfly
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In this activity, learners explore how nanosized structures can create brilliant color.
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.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Angles of Reflection
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In this optics activity, learners work in pairs to explore how mirrors work. Learners use tape to mark the angles needed to see each other's reflection in a wall mirror.
Periscope
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In this optics activity, learners build a spy tool to secretly view things over walls or around corners.
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.
Count Around
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Learners explore their surroundings while reasoning about categories and counting.
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.
Periscope
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In this activity, learners construct a device that allows them to look over ledges or around corners.
Rainbow Film
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In this activity, learners use clear nail polish to create a beautiful iridescent pattern on black paper. Learners discover that a thin film creates iridescent, rainbow colors.
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.
Glow Fast, Glow Slow: Alter the Rate of a Reaction!
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Learners investigate one factor affecting reaction rates: temperature. In a darkened room, two identical lightsticks are placed in water -- one in hot water and one in cold water.