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Sweetly Balanced Equations
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In this (edible) activity, learners balance chemical equations using different kinds and colors of candy that represent different atoms. Learners will work in pairs and explore conservation of atoms.

Mysterious M&M's
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Learners place an M&M candy in water and observe what happens. The sugar-and-color coating dissolves and spreads out in a circular pattern around the M&M.

Racing M&M Colors
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Learners design their own experiment to determine which M&M color dissolves the fastest in water.

Edible Glass
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In this activity, learners discover the principles of edible glass by making a supersaturated sugar solution.

Canned Heat
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

What's the Difference between Weather and Climate?
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In this interactive and informative group activity, learners use packages of M&M's to illustrate the difference between weather and climate.

Diffusion of Water with Gummy Bears
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In this activity, learners investigate the movement of water into and out of a polymer. Learners test the diffusion of water through gummy bears, which are made of sugar and gelatin (a polymer).

Wrap It Up!
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In this Energy and Environment activity (page 9 of the PDF), learners calculate the mass of a piece of gum, compare it to the mass of the gum's packaging, and then create a bar graph of the results.

DIY Pasta Rover
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In this activity, learners design and build a NASA rover using raw pasta and candy with a limited imaginary budget.

Survival of the Fittest: Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection by encouraging them to formulate questions that can be answered through scientific investi

Survival of the Fittest: Battling Beetles
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection through data collection and pattern recognition.