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In this activity, learners investigate the relative growth of lengths, areas, and volumes as cylinders are scaled up.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this online interactive simulation, learners will test the pH of liquids like coffee, spit, and soap to determine whether each is acidic, basic, or neutral.

free Ages 11 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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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.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers use scales and measures when designing a manufacturing process to ensure that final products are uniform in weight or count.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners will build thier own balance scale. Learners will explore weight and comparison through this activity.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This Exploratorium activity explores size and scale. Through four levels of screen sizes, learners can sort out objects of different sizes.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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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.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners watch a video to learn about a couple who built a home out of shipping containers in Brooklyn, New York.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make or use pre-made clay beams to scale and proportion. Specifically, they discover that when you scale up proportionally (i.e.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity on page 15 of the PDF, discover how materials and physical forces behave differently at the nanoscale.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This lesson focuses on how to measure at the nanoscale and provides learners with an understanding how small a nanometer really is.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this nanoscience activity, learners discover that it's easy to pour water out of a regular-sized cup, but not out of a miniature cup.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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Visitors prepare six solutions combining vinegar and ammonia that range incrementally from acid (all vinegar) to base (all ammonia).

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult Under 5 minutes
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This is an activity (located on page 4 of the PDF under What's Nano? Activity) about size and scale.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity related to microbes, learners create scale models of microorganisms and compare relative sizes of common bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa using metric measures: meters, centimete

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this demonstration, learners compare the relative sizes and masses of scale models of the planets as represented by fruits and other foods.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners use a spring scale to drag an object such as a ceramic coffee cup along a table top or the floor.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a miniature wind tunnel to measure force. Learners construct the model out of Lexan plastic, a fan, and a precise digital scale.

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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This lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted our society and how engineers have learned to explore the world at the nanoscale.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this fun sticker activity, learners will create a size wheel with images of objects of different size, from macroscopic scale (like an ant) to nanoscale (like DNA).

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes