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This is an activity about turbidity, or the amount of sediment suspended in water.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this water activity, learners build boats that float and sink. First, learners listen to the book, "Who Sank the Boat" and practice making predictions throughout the story.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 6 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners use simple items to construct a device for indicating air pressure changes.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Bogs), learners will test cups full of potting soil, sand, and sphagnum moss to see which earth material is able to soak up the most water.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners practice the steps involved in a scientific investigation while learning why ice formations on land (not those on water) will cause a rise in sea level upon melting.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners measure the diameter of their water balloons, model an impact, measure the diameter of the “crater” area, and determine the ratio of impactor to crater.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this three-part activity, learners explore how waves are formed and why some waves are bigger than others. First, learners observe waves of water in a pan generated by an electric fan.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners model estuaries, artificially enriching both fresh and salt water samples with different amounts of nutrients and observing the growth of algae over several weeks.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 4 weeks
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April showers bring May flowers, but what do coastal storms bring?

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners use plastic water bottles, wood, and water to build an inexpensive and portable tool to demonstrate one atmosphere of pressure at sea level.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake in Mississippi and measure water quality parameters in their model.

Over $20 per group Ages 14 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners investigate and compare the rate of drying in different conditions.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners will explore how a hydrometer works by building a working model and conducting experiments.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity about humans and space travel (page 1 of PDF), learners compare and contrast the behavior of a water-filled plastic bag, both outside and inside of a container of water.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity about the circulatory system and space travel (on page 38 of the PDF), learners use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the bod

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this classic hands-on activity, learners estimate the length of a molecule by floating a fatty acid (oleic acid) on water.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity about saturation (page 1 of PDF under SciGirls Activity: Sand Dunes), learners will build a series of sand castle towers using a 16 oz cup.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the different heating properties of soil and water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours