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In this activity learners create patterns of hair beads.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on page 2), pairs of learners create an imaginary crime scene. One person leaves the room while the other person moves a few things around.

free Ages 6 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this outdoor art/environmental activity, learners create designs that will attract attention to animals and plants in particular habitats, and then test whether their designs attracted the "right"

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Create a “Find Someone” list, with about 10 items, each containing a shape, number, or measurement. Can you find someone in the group with hair about 4 inches long? Someone wearing parallel lines?

free Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity gets learners looking at 6-sided shapes in nature, including the cells of a beehive, as well as other shapes.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this activity about magnetism (page 15 of the PDF), learners will explore how opposite and similar magnetic poles affect a swinging (pendulum) magnet.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners examine their fingerprints and learn that they can be categorized by shape, but each fingerprint is unique.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this hands-on activity, learners build their own kaleidoscopes and explore how light can reflect of off surfaces such as mirrors, to produce beautiful patterns.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor, windy day activity, learners "fly" and race leaves along a line to discover which types of leaves catch the most wind. Which leaves are the best fliers? Why?

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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This is an activity about music, movement, and math. Learners will start a rhythm pattern with 2, 3, or 4 beats. For instance, tap your foot, jump, clap, repeat.

free Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this creative outdoor activity, learners invent populations of make-believe organisms and then investigate real populations living in the activity site.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Learners construct a bracelet containing two strands of beads, which represents a double strand of DNA that codes for a gene. They match beads to the bases in a section of a chimp's DNA code.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners combine counting, multiples, and number patterns with jumping up and down. To start, pick a counting number.

free Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes