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3-2-1 POP!
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In this physics activity, learners build their own rockets out of film canisters and construction paper.

Instant Ice Cream with a Dry Ice Bath
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In this chemistry meets cooking activity, learners make carbonated, vanilla ice cream using dry ice and denatured ethanol, which are both inexpensive and accessible.

Got Seaweed?
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In this activity, learners examine the properties of different seaweeds, investigate what happens when powdered seaweed (alginate) is added to water, and learn about food products made with seaweed.

Mapping a Study Site
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In this outdoor activity, learners use a mapping technique to become oriented to the major features of an outdoor site.

Suminagashi: Floating Ink Paper Marbling
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In this activity, learners try to float ink on the surface of water to create a pattern and then capture it with absorbent paper.

Penny Battery
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In this activity, learners light an LED with five cents. Learners use two different metals and some sour, salty water to create a cheap battery.

Handwashing Laboratory Activities: Fingerprint Technique
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In this lab (Activity #1 on page), learners compare bacteria growth on two petri dishes containing nutrient agar: one that has been touched by a finger washed only with water and one that has been tou

Algae in Excess
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Plants need nutrients to grow. This is why we apply fertilizers to grass and food crops. In this activity, learners will explore how fertilizers can affect lakes and other bodies of water.

Egg Drop
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In this activity, kids make and play with Ooze before testing the material in an egg drop!

Make a Prism
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In this activity, learners will make their own prism and use a glass of water to separate sunlight into different colors.

Critical Angle
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In this optics activity, learners examine how a transparent material such as glass or water can actually reflect light better than any mirror.

Do Cities Affect the Weather?
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In this activity, learners explore clouds and how they form.

Plankton Feeding
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This activity provides a hands-on experience with a scale model, a relatively high viscosity fluid, and feeding behaviors.

Launch Altitude Tracker
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In this activity, learners construct hand-held altitude trackers. The device is a sighting tube with a marked water level that permits measurement of the inclination of the tube.

Ice Cream
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In this chemistry activity, learners use the lowered freezing point of water to chill another mixture (ice cream) to the solid state.

Good Vibrations
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This lesson (on pages 15-24 of PDF) explores how sound is caused by vibrating objects. It explains that we hear by feeling vibrations passing through the air.

Ice on Mars
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In this activity, learners use sand and ice cubes to create a model of permafrost and the effects of the ice melting through the surface.

Habitable Worlds
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In this group activity, learners consider environmental conditions—temperature, presence of water, atmosphere, sunlight, and chemical composition—on planets and moons in our solar system to determine

Counting With Quadrants
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Millions of organisms can live in and around a body of water.

Salts & Solubility
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In this online interactive simulation, learners will add different salts to water and then watch the salts dissolve and achieve a dynamic equilibrium with solid precipitate.