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Skin, Scales and Skulls
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In this activity, learners examine body parts (including skin, scales, and skulls) from fish, mammals and reptiles. Questions are provided to help encourage learner investigations.
Surface Tension
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In this activity exploring liquid dynamics, learners design and build a clay channel in a tray of water and then see what happens when food coloring and liquid soap are added to the mix.
Fingerprints
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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.
Active Touch
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In this activity (14th activity on the page) about the sense of touch, learners examine if it is easier or harder to identify an object if they move their hands over it.
Pepper Scatter
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In this quick activity, learners break the tension that happens when water develops a "skin." Learners use water, pepper and some soap to discover the wonders of surface tension—the force that attract
Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes...and Hands, Fingers and Back
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Are fingers the only place on the body where we use our sense of touch? In this activity (6th activity on the page), learners test the touch sensitivity of different parts of the body.
Crazy Camouflage
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In this activity about camouflage, learners create a model that shows how a flounder is able to blend into a variety of environments.
Sock It To Me!
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In this activity (7th activity on the page), learners use their sense of touch to identify mystery objects hidden in socks.