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Scavenger Hunt: A Group Collection
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In this activity, learners are divided into teams.

Paper making: a craft and a chemical engineering major
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In this activity, learners explore the question "What is paper?" Learners discover the processes and materials required to make paper while experimenting with different recycled fibers and tools.
Waves: An Alternative Energy Source
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In this data analysis and environmental science activity, learners evaluate the feasibility of wave energy as a practical alternative energy source using ocean observing system (OOS) buoys.

Taking Its Temperature
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In this activity (pages 5-7), learners investigate the properties of smart materials, which are materials that respond to things that happen around them.

Photosynthetic Pictures Are Worth More Than a Thousand Words
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This activity provides an opportunity for learners to observe and examine how carbon dioxide, water, and light produce glucose/starch through a process called photosynthesis.

Portable Potable Pressure
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In this activity, learners use plastic water bottles, wood, and water to build an inexpensive and portable tool to demonstrate one atmosphere of pressure at sea level.

What's the Matter
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In this activity, learners identify different classes of matter based on physical properties.

Resonant Rings
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Things that are different sizes and stiffness vibrate differently, and in this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll see how rings of various diameters react to vibration and external forces.

AM in the PM
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In this activity, learners will listen to as many radio stations as possible to discover that AM radio signals can travel many hundreds of miles at night.

Measure the Pressure II: The "Dry" Barometer
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In this activity, learners use simple items to construct a device for indicating air pressure changes.

Color-Changing Carnations
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Learners place cut flowers in colored water and observe how the flowers change. The flowers absorb the water through the stem and leaves.

How Sweet It Is
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In this activity (4th activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to rate and arrange containers filled with different dilutions of a scent (like cologne or fruit juice) in order from wea

Shake It Up!
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Learners drop a magnet through a coil of wire to create electric current in a circuit. LEDs in the circuit allow learners to detect the direction of current flow.

The Carbon Cycle: Carbon Tracker
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In this activity, learners play NOAA's Carbon Tracker game and discover ways to keep track of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the world.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Heard
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In this activity (11th activity on the page), learners use pennies to test their hearing acuity.

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

Make Your Own Barometer
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In this weather activity (page 10 of the PDF), learners will demonstrate the changes in atmospheric pressure by constructing their own barometer.

The Checks Lab
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A group of learners has an envelope containing a series of bank checks. A few checks are removed at a time, and the team attempts to construct a plausible scenario which involves those checks.

Number of Mentos vs. Height: Soda Geyser Series #5
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In this activity, learners conduct a controlled experiment to examine how many Mentos are needed to make the tallest possible soda geyser.

Drop IT!: Depth Perception
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These two activities (4th on the page) demonstrate the importance of two eyes in judging depth.