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In this activity (on page 1 of the PDF), learners make a "mini-globe" to investigate the causes of day and night on our planet.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Players take turns adding shapes made of three squares to a grid. They try to fit their shapes on the grid in a way that blocks the other player.

free Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Did you know that you would be a different age if you lived on Mars? It's true!

free Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this demonstration/activity, water streaming through holes in the bottom of a suspended soda pop can causes the can to rotate.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, a spinning bicycle wheel resists efforts to tilt it and point the axle in a new direction.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners walk the sides and interior angles of various polygons drawn on the playground. As they do so, learners practice rotating clockwise 180° and 360°.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners use a laser pointer and two small rotating mirrors to create a variety of fascinating patterns, which can be easily and dramatically projected on a wall or screen.

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (on pages 41-47 of PDF), learners explore tesselating geometric patterns (repeated shapes, similar to the art of M.C. Escher).

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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Through a series of simple body movements, learners gain insight into the relationship between time and astronomical motions of Earth (rotation about its axis, and orbit around the Sun), and also abou

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners add squares to paper dominoes to make polyominoes.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this engineering activity, learners explore simple machines and then build cardboard automata using cams.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this kinesthetic activity, learners will play a game with a ball to demonstrate the Coriolis force, which partly explains why hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise.

free Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the history, design and motion of spinning tops. Learners work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own tops out of everyday items.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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Create beautiful spirals by drawing a straight line. This sounds crazy, but you can with a turntable (a record player or lazy susan), paper, and pen.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (posted on March 27, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a mini zoetrope, a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity related to rotational inertia (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Microgravity), learners will use a bit of scientific experimenting to test if open-faced peanut butter sandwi

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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To understand how skaters turn in midair, try this little experiment! Individuals can do this activity alone, but it works better with a partner.

free Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use a laser pointer and two small rotating mirrors to create a variety of fascinating patterns, which can be easily and dramatically projected on a wall or screen.

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this demonstration, learners explore a variation of a Foucault pendulum, but upside down.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on page 6 of the PDF), learners plot the path of the sun's apparent movement across the sky on two days, with the second day occurring two or three months after the first.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days