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Glaciers
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In this online activity, learners adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see how glaciers grow and shrink. They will use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.

Why Do Eclipses Happen?
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners create 3D models of the Earth, Moon and Sun to demonstrate solar and lunar eclipses.

Water Body Salinities II
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In this activity, learners discuss the different salinities of oceans, rivers and estuaries.

Cookie Mining
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In this activity, learners explore the economics of coal mining as you they use fake money to purchase mining tools, attempt to carefully mine their cookies, sell their chocolate chip ore, and try to

Jell-O Model of Microfluidics
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This activity uses Jell-O(R) to introduce learners to microfluidics, the flow of fluids through microscopic channels.
The Earth's Timeline
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In this group activity, learners will mark important developments of life on Earth on a timeline (each foot in length representing 200 million years).
Light on Other Planets
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In this math-based activity, learners model the intensity of light at various distances from a light source, and understand how astronomers measure the amount of sunlight that hits our planet and othe

Does the Moon Rotate?
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners make 3-dimensional models of the Earth and Moon.

Building Molecules
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This online interactive has three activities in the NanoLab (press the upper right button): Build, Zoom, and Transform.

Masses & Springs
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In this online activity, learners use a realistic mass and spring laboratory. They hang masses from springs and adjust the spring stiffness and damping.

Color Vision
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In this online activity, learners make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. They can change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or they can filter white light.

Estimation
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In this online activity, learners will explore size estimation in one, two and three dimensions. Multiple levels of difficulty allow for progressive skill improvement.

How Do We Find Planets Around Other Stars?
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity describes techniques scientists use to find planets orbiting other stars.

Let's Make a Supernova!
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners explore what happens when a star explodes.

Seeing Is Believing
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This activity is designed to accompany the PBS documentary about African-American chemist "Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius." Learners look through two cups with small holes in them to simulate what it'

Artificial Intelligence: The Intelligent Piece of Paper
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This activity explores what it means for a computer to be intelligent and introduces the topic of what a computer program is and how everything computers do simply involves following instructions writ

Water Treatment
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Water treatment on a large scale enables the supply of clean drinking water to communities.

Microarrays and Stem Cells
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In this activity, learners use microarray technology to determine which genes are turned on and off at various points in the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells on their way to becoming pancreat

Exploring Size: Ball Sorter
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In this activity, learners use sieves with different-sized holes to sort balls by size.

pH Scale
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In this online interactive simulation, learners will test the pH of liquids like coffee, spit, and soap to determine whether each is acidic, basic, or neutral.