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Say Cheese!
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Create a chemical reaction that makes cheese! This hands-on activity demonstrates that molecules and atoms are tiny particles that make up everything around us.
Seeing 3D
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Create 3D glasses and use them to explore color, light and optics. Fool your brain into 'seeing' three dimensions on a flat surface!
Shark Sense of Smell
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This is an activity about our sense of smell and how it compares to sharks' super noses. Learners will create varying solutions of water and perfume.
Lung Capacity
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This is an activity about lung capacity. Learners will measure their own lung capacity using a homemade spirometer.
Great Balls of Goop
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In this activity, learners mix white craft glue and borax solution together to produce a surprising new material: GOOP!
Oil Slick
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Can you think of ways to collect and dispose of spilled oil without causing further harm to the environment?
Scream for Ice Cream
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Don't scream for ice cream -- make it with milk, sugar, flavoring and some 'salt-water' ice. Discover the chemistry of ice cream by creating your own.
Ocean Echolocation
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Use echolocation to find others and experience how whales’ senses have adapted to suit their environment. In pairs, learners are blindfolded and use containers filled with marbles to find each other.
How Do Probes Get To Space?
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Investigate how force and thrust work to propel rockets into outer space. Build a rocket: a blown-up balloon taped to a drinking straw threaded through some string.
Speed, Eggs and Slam!
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In this fun hands-on activity, learners create a safety device to protect an egg "passenger" in a toy car crash. Learners experiment with different solutions to this very problem.
Comet Cratering
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Make impact craters with marbles (or rocks or washers) in a container of flour. Find out what you can learn about your "comets" by the craters they make.
Turbidity
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This is an activity about turbidity, or the amount of sediment suspended in water.