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Fog Chamber
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In this weather-related activity, learners make a portable cloud in a bottle.

Building a 3-D Space Maze: Escher Staircase
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In this activity (page 95 of the PDF), learners create Escher Staircase models similar to those that were used by Neurolab's Spatial Orientation Team to investigate the processing of information about

Spill Spread
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In this simulation, learners explore how ocean currents spread all kinds of pollution—including oil spills, sewage, pesticides and factory waste—far beyond where the pollution originates.

Shadow Puppets
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In this activity, learners will create their own simple shadow puppets, and experiment with light and shadow while playing with them.

Sink or Float
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In this activity, learners explore and compare the buoyant properties of materials found in nature and in human-made materials.

Paper Folding: Unfurling Geometric Paper Shapes
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Use geometry, a ruler, and a steady hand to create these amazing unfurling paper folds!

Experimenting with Naked Eggs
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In this activity about osmosis, learners use a naked egg (one with a dissolved eggshell) to learn about selectively permeable membranes.

A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
Learners build a model of a pollution control device--a cyclone. A cyclone works by whirling the polluted air in a circle and accumulating particles on the edges of the container.

Radial Chromatography
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How many colors make black? Gather as many water soluble black markers as you can find.

Exploring the Solar System: Mission to Space Board Game
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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.

Water Drop Races
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In this activity, learners will explore the physics of liquids and gas by playing with both! Learners of any age use their own breath to move drops of water across a smooth wax paper surface.

Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets
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In "Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets," participants learn about how some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space, and how a special kind of rocket called "sounding rockets" can

Extreme Lifestyles
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In this matching game, learners study the limits of life on Earth to see what other places in the solar system might sustain microbial life.

Tabloid Science
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In this activity, learners analyze a fictionalized report of life on Mars, based on a real NASA satellite photo, and explore how to separate scientific fact from fiction.

Make Your Own Magnus Glider
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Build a glider that uses the same physics as a curve ball, for less than a dime.

Under Pressure: Your Blood Pressure
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During this lesson, learners will determine their blood pressure and learn about systolic and diastolic pressures.

Target Recognition and Synapse Formation During Development
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In this activity about neuron/target muscle recognition (page 44 of the PDF), learners arranged in two rows facing away from each other use string to simulate neural development.

Coupled Resonant Pendulums
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In this activity, learners discover that two pendulums suspended from a common support will swing back and forth in intriguing patterns, if the support allows the motion of one pendulum to influence t

Quipus
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Learners create an Incan counting device called a quipu (pronounced kee-poo).

Pathways with Friends
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Directed by instructional cards, learners kinesthetically model cell communication by acting as components in a cell signaling pathway.