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Exploring Size: Powers of Ten
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In this activity, learners play a card game that explores the relative sizes of various objects. Learners compete to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.

Size Wheel
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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).

Exploring Size: Memory Game
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In this activity, learners play a card game that explores different size scales--macro, micro and nano.
Building Houses: Build a Cardboard Tube House
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Build a house you can fit inside, using cardboard tubes.

Exploring Materials: Ferrofluid
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In this activity, learners discover that a material can act differently when it's nanometer-sized.

Invisible Sunblock
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This is a hands-on activity exploring how nanoscale particles are used in mineral sunblocks to increase their transparency.

Resonant Rings
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Things that are different sizes and stiffness vibrate differently, and in this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll see how rings of various diameters react to vibration and external forces.

Perspectives: Powers of 10
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In this activity, learners complete a series of drawing activities to explore scale and powers of 10. Learners first trace each other on 1-meter-square pieces of paper.
Pesticide Watch Card
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After learning that some of the chemicals we add to food crops may have harmful consequences on our health and the health of the environment, learners will create a pocket-sized card with their favori

Magic Sand: Nanosurfaces
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This is an activity/demo in which learners are exposed to the difference bewteen hydrophobic surfaces (water repelling) and hydrophilic surfaces (water loving).

Exploring Forces: Static Electricity
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In this activity, learners investigate what happens when you build up static electricity on plastic balls.

Sand, Plants and Pants
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In this activity, learners explore how the application of nano-sized particles or coatings can change a bigger material’s properties.

Horton Senses Something Small
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In this story time program, young learners listen to the Dr.

Shrinkers: Cook up some plastic!
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In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners (with adult help and supervision) investigate how heat affects polystyrene plastic.

That's the Way the Ball Bounces: Level 1
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In this activity, learners prepare four polymer elastomers and then compare their physical properties, such as texture, color, size, and bounce height.

Cookie Surface Area
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This is an activity (on page 2 of the PDF under Surface Area Activity) about surface area to volume ratio.

Size and Scale: Probing and Predicting
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In this quick activity about predicting (located on page 2 of the PDF under Where's Nano?

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.