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Animal Attraction
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Investigate a flower's power of marketing by making an imitation flower that successfully signals a bee (or other pollinator of your choice) to visit.
Measuring Rules
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In this math activity, learners create their own units of measurement by making noodle rulers. Learners practice estimating and measuring objects using the noodle rulers .

Line Up: Using Math To Stand In Line
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Put math of measurement into lining up — and make waiting in line fun. Choose a size characteristic that learners can physically compare, such as foot length or hair length.
Caterpillar Measure
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In this activity, young learners use different-sized paper 'caterpillars' and various household items to predict and measure their height.

Exploring Size: Powers of Ten
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In this activity, learners play a card game that explores the relative sizes of various objects. Learners compete to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.

Exploring Size: Measure Yourself
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In this activity, learners mark their height on a height chart and discover how tall they are in nanometers.

Mitten Challenge
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In this activity, learners try to put together toy bricks—wearing oven mitts on their hands! This activity shows learners how difficult it is to build small things when your tools are too big.

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.

Exploring Size: Memory Game
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In this activity, learners play a card game that explores different size scales--macro, micro and nano.

How Small Can You Cut?
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In this lesson, learners cut paper into very small pieces to explore the small size of quarks, the smallest thing we know of on Earth.

The Size and Distance of the Planets
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In this activity, learners investigate the concepts of relative size and distance by creating a basic model of the solar system.

Make a Dinosaur
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In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs" by Byron Barton to understand some background information about dinosaurs.

Scale Model of Sun and Earth
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In this activity, learners explore the relative size of the Sun and Earth as well as the distance between them.

Size Wheel
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In this fun sticker activity, learners will create a size wheel with images of objects of different size, from macroscopic scale (like an ant) to nanoscale (like DNA).

Exploring Tools: Mitten Challenge
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In this activity, learners build a LEGO® structure while wearing mittens. This activity shows learners how difficult it is to build small things when your tools are too big.

Eclipse: How can the little Moon hide the giant Sun?
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In this activity, learners explore how distance can affect the way we perceive the size of an object.

Exploring Size: Scented Solutions
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This is an activity in which learners will find that they can detect differences in concentration better with their nose (smelling) than with their eyes (seeing).
Building Houses: Build a Cardboard Tube House
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Build a house you can fit inside, using cardboard tubes.

Horton Senses Something Small
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In this story time program, young learners listen to the Dr.

Compare Dinosaur Body Parts
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In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "The Littlest Dinosaurs" by Bernard Most to learn about the different sizes of dinosaurs.