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Electroscope
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In this activity about electricity, learners suspend pieces of tape from a straw to construct an electroscope, a device that detects an electrical charge.

Design-a-Fish
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In this science and language arts activity, learners study fish anatomy and make their very own 3D paper fish.

Exploring the Solar System: Craters
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"Exploring the Solar System: Craters" is an active, hands-on activity that demonstrates how craters form, and what they can teach us about the history and composition of planets and moons.

Wetland Preservation Art
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In this hands-on art and science activity (page 4 of the pdf), learners brainstorm and discuss how humans use wetlands, then express their understanding of the subject in artwork.

Sleep Patterns
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In this activity about sleep rhythms (on page 21 of the PDF), learners will collect data about their own sleep cycles and use a fraction wheel to examine their data.

Lub Dub: Make a Heart Valve
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Learners will construct a model of a heart valve using a film canister, a piece of masking tape, and a piece of paper.

Turning the Air Upside Down: Warm Air is Less Dense than Cool Air
Learners cover a bottle with a balloon. When they immerse the bottle in warm water, the balloon inflates. When they immerse the bottle in a bowl of ice, the balloon deflates.

Three Bean Salads
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This game teaches ratio and proportion by having learners make "salads" that combine three types of beans in different combinations.

Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
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In this activity, learners investigate how geometry plays a role in perspective.

Signs of Life
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In this activity, learners examine photo images of Earth taken from space, and attempt to identify and explain some of our planet's geological features.

Fantastic Plastic
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In this activity, learners investigate the properties of plastic bags. Learners find out what happens when they slowly push a pencil through a plastic bag filled with water.

Kepler Paper Model
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In this activity, learners build a paper model of the spacecraft and photometer (telescope) used during NASA's Kepler Mission.
Balloon Surprise
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In this activity, learners discover a trick to release the air out of a balloon without popping it.

Weather Stations: Winds
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In this activity, learners use a toaster to generate wind and compare the appliance's heat source to Jupiter's own hot interior. Learners discover that convection drives wind on Jupiter and on Earth.

Football
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In this math activity (Page 10 of the Play Ball! PDF), learners play a game of "football" and analyze the results of the game.

Ziploc Digestion Simulator
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In this biology activity, learners recreate the process of digestion in a zip lock bag. A bit of soda pop added to some crumbled crackers approximates how acids in the stomach dissolve food.

Frosty Glasses
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In this activity, learners explore why frost forms. They create their own frost using a solution of ice water and salt in a glass.

Vibrating Pennies
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Conduct a simple experiment to explore how temperature changes can make things expand or contract.

Xenosmilus
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Learners imagine they are paleontologists in Florida, where they find (remove from envelope) paper "fossils" of some unknown creature, only a few at a time.

Straw Rockets
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In this activity, learners will create unique rockets. Each rocket will be powered by air as the learner will blow into a straw and watch their rocket fly.