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Make Maracas
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Make a rattle-like musical instrument! Shake it, hit it, spin it any way you want to!
Make a Garbage Bag Kite
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Make a kite out of a garbage bag, shower curtain, painting tarp--anything light, thin, flexible and plastic!
Musical Sculpting Machine: Squeeze Play-Doh to Make Music
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Play-Doh is conductive! Use the semiconductive qualities of Play-Doh to make your own squeezable instrument. Pico Cricket is required.
Sound Bingo
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This game is like regular bingo, except the clues are sounds.
Making Vocal Cords
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In this activity, learners imitate the way vocal cords work by building a model from a plastic cup, rubber band, and a straw.
Magnus Glider
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A design challenge that takes paper airplanes into an entirely different direction: a magnus glider uses cups and and rubber bands to create a glider that uses the same forces that a curveball (from b
Circuit Bending with Play-Doh
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Break open that used musical toy and squish some Play-Doh over the circuit boards, and you will hear some weird and distorted sounds the manufacturer never intended!
Thrush Songs: An Interactive Game
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In this interactive game, learners listen to the songs of four different thrushes and then try to match each bird with its song.
Radial Chromatography
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How many colors make black? Gather as many water soluble black markers as you can find.
Shake and Match
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In this activity, learners create a hearing based memory game that they can share with friends.
Make Pan Pipes
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This is a simple activity for learners to create a traditional musical instrument. Pan Pipes have developed all over the world in different cultures, from South America to Greece and China.
Audio Memory
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In this interactive game, learners will test their memory of animal and insect sounds. Flip over cards, listen to the sound, and try to find the ones that match.
Electric Cup Guitar
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Make a one-string "guitar" by stringing a cup with some fishing line. You amplify the plucking of the string by placing a piezo contact microphone and mini battery powered amplifier inside the cup.
Solving Dissolving
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The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá is a sink hole, or well, containing groundwater. In this activity, learners create their own cenote using chalk, limestone, acids, and rain water.
Try Growing Your Own Mold
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This is a hands-on activity that uses bread and household materials to grow mold. Learners collect dust from a room, wipe it on food, and contain it. One to seven days later, mold has grown.
Sounds of the Heart
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In this activity, learners will investigate the sounds of the heart.