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Cleaning with Dirt
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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.
Animal Hats
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In this arts and crafts activity about animals and animal characteristics, learners will design animal hats and role-play as animals.
Bug Hats
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In this activity, learners use their imaginations and experiment with different materials to create bug hats.
Build a Battery
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Learners make a simple battery out of "sandwiches" of aluminum foil, pennies, and a salt water-soaked paper towel.
In the Toilet
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This activity explores the basic workings of a siphon, which is the core technology that makes toilets work.
Memory Match
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In this classic memory game (on pages 37-45 of PDF), learners turn over tiles to reveal images on the back.
Cool It!
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Learners make a refrigerator that works without electricity. The pot-in-pot refrigerator works by evaporation: a layer of sand is placed between two terra cotta pots and thoroughly soaked with water.
Wingin' It
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Learners explore the Bernoulli effect by building an airfoil (airplane wing) and making it fly.
History of Electricity
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This is a series of demonstrations about different electrical and magnetic phenomena.
Pollution Diffusion
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Learners design their own experiment to investigate how pollution diffuses through ground material.
Tricky Tangrams
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In this activity (on pages 49-54 of PDF), learners play with tangrams, a set of triangles, squares and a parallelogram that can combine into a larger square as well as all sorts of other shapes.
Bridge the Gap
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Learners work in groups to construct bridges using stale marshmallows and toothpicks.
Designing Bandages
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Learners design different shaped bandages for different purposes. First, they draw their designs on paper.
Draggin' Boats
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Learners design, build, and test models of "dragon boats" made from up to three milk cartons.
A Hole in the Ground
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Learners build models of sinkholes to gain an intuitive knowledge of their physical aspects.
Acting Out
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This activity (on pages 21-32 of PDF) has learners act out several classic brain teasers.
Three Little Pigs
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In this activity, leaners explore building techniques by recreating the story of The Three Little Pigs.
Building a Community From the Ground Up
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In this activity, a group of learners work collaboratively to design and construct a paper model showing the evolution of an environment through multiple stages, from prehistory through the modern cit
Quipus
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Learners create an Incan counting device called a quipu (pronounced kee-poo).
Slide Rules
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Learners make their own simple slide rules out of paper and learn how they work.