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Valves and Pumps: A Demonstration
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This is a demonstration you can use to show learners how valves and pumps work in concert to move blood through the circulatory system.

File Card Bridges
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With two stacks of books and a few rolls of pennies, build two kinds of bridges--a beam span and an arch span--and see how much weight each of them can hold.

Crayfish Investigations
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This activity has learners interacting with live crayfish, but could be adapted for a variety of similar hardy and interesting organisms.

Does Size Make a Difference?
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In this activity on page 15 of the PDF, discover how materials and physical forces behave differently at the nanoscale.

Solar Flare Flip Book
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In this activity, learners make their own flip book that shows real solar flares erupting from the Sun in November 2000. Step-by-step instructions are included with photos.

Mermaid's Purse
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In this activity (page 2 of pdf), learners craft a model of a skate egg case and come to understand that cartilaginous fish such as sharks and shakes employ reproductive strategies that differ from th

Bird Feeder Challenge
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In this activity, learners are challenged to build a bird feeder using recycled materials from home and are encouraged to problem solve during the extensions.

Making Music in Nature
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In this activity, learners will explore the ways natural materials can produce sounds. Appropriate for any age, learners can make individual music or create a symphony with others.

Scavenger Hunt
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An outdoor scavenger hunt helps learners consider the theme of "What Is Life?" Learners explore what living organisms are, including how organisms meet basic needs of food, shelter and water to surviv
Become a Master of Inertia
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In this activity, learners explore inertia as they attempt to whip a strip of paper out from under two coins dangling on the rim of a water glass.

Exploring Size: Tiny Ruler
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In this activity, learners investigate just how small a billionth of a meter is by attempting to cut a paper ruler down to a nanometer-sized sliver.

Seashell Journal
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In this activity, learners make homemade journals featuring seashell rubbings. First, learners transfer the texture of a seashell onto a piece of paper using a crayon.

Mysterious M&M's
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Learners place an M&M candy in water and observe what happens. The sugar-and-color coating dissolves and spreads out in a circular pattern around the M&M.

Exploring the Universe: Space Guess Quest
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Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.

Exploring Materials: Hydrogel
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In this activity, learners discover how a super-absorbing material can be used to move a straw.

Water Striders
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners catch and observe water striders to explore their movement and feeding behaviors.

Vegetable Revival
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In this activity, learners use food scraps from the kitchen to grow new vegetables.

Color Changes with Acids and Bases
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Learners mix a variety of substances with red cabbage juice. The juice changes color to indicate whether each substance is an acid or a base.

All Tangled Up
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In this activity on page 60, learners examine and simulate wildlife entanglement by experiencing what it might be like to be a marine animal trapped in debris.

Dress Like a Frog
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In this activity, learners will discover what it takes to be a frog. By dressing up like one, learners can visualize how each part of the frog plays an important role in surviving its habitat.