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In this activity, learners investigate the relative growth of lengths, areas, and volumes as cylinders are scaled up.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners create virus models, including nucleic acid and proteins, using simple materials. This resource includes information about virus structure and gene therapy.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct a cereal chain as a model of how proteins are made in the cell.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity on page 1 of the PDF, learners compare the relative sizes of biological objects (like DNA and bacteria) that can't be seen by the naked eye.

free Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity related to magnetism and electricity, learners observe as two parallel, current-carrying wires exert forces on each other.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity about electricity, learners produce a spark that they can feel, see, and hear. Learners rub a Styrofoam plate with wool to give it an electric charge.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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This activity provides instructions for learners to create models of the Earth and then to model a "day" on Earth as well as modeling the seasons.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity related to magnetism and electricity, learners create a magnetic field that's stronger than the Earth's magnetic field.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make cool boxes out of old (or new) greeting cards or postcards.

free Ages 11 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this web-based activity, learners try to figure out who in an online chat room has their matching puzzle piece.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This is a lesson plan for an activity in which learners, playing the role of archeologists, use math concepts about number bases to decipher the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan document.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours