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In this activity, learners build a game that tests their steadiness. Learners construct the game board by setting up an electrical circuit and a wand.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity explores the main algorithms that are used as the basis for searching on computers, using different variations on the game of battleships.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this game, learners experience how computers divide a big problem into many smaller ones and how they use binary "yes"/"no" questions.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity introduces the idea that computer scientists measure information by how "surprising" a message is.

free Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this hands-on engineering project, kids use two simple machines, levers and inclined planes, to construct their own pinball machines.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this online Flash game, learners will explore a coral reef using an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

free Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this online Flash game, learners will captain a sailing challenge, adjusting boat direction and sails, seeking the way to take greatest advantage of varying wind speeds and directions to catch the

free Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this seismic simulation, learners play a "who-dunnit" game to explore earthquakes.

free Ages 11 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, you take regular dominoes, and turn them into conductive switches that can turn on a LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket (micro controller). LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket is required.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this invention challenge activity, learners create an indoor game for one or two people that gets you moving.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this online activity, learners find out whether they are smart enough to survive as a plant.

free Ages 11 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity models the necessary balance of creating power and cleaning up its associated waste. Learners participate in a game where they attempt to move forward toward a goal.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this on site "field trip" activity (located on pages 6-9 of PDF), learners get hands-on experience identifying building materials by playing "Building Bingo".

free Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners will code an algorithm to make it through a maze.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this tabletop board game, players will represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this design challenge activity, learners invent a pinball-like game where a kick stick hits a ping pong ball into a target that buzzes.

$10 - $20 per student Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this engineering activity, learners design their own board games.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this online game, learners must purchase power plants for their city.

free Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity learners will build structures out of blocks and then roll balls to try to knock them down.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes