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Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore the engineering design process (EDP)—the process engineers use to solve design challenges.
Future Moon: The Footsteps of Explorers
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In this activity, learners drop impactors onto layers of graham crackers!
Pom Pom Potential
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In this kinesthetic activity, learners move pom-pom "ions" across a membrane to simulate how an action potential is propagated along an axon.
Neural Network Signals
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In this activity, learners create an electrical circuit and investigate how some dissolved substances conduct electricity.
Making Regolith
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This lesson will helps learners answer the question: How does the bombardment of micrometeoroids make regolith on the moon?
Sustainable Fishing
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In this activity, learners use a model for how fishing affects marine life populations, and will construct explanations for one of the reasons why fish populations are declining.
Making An Impact!
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In this activity (on page 14 of PDF), learners use a pan full of flour and some rocks to create a moonscape.
Chocolate Lava
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In this yummy earth science activity (page 5 of the PDF), learners use fudge to learn about different kinds of lava.
Survival of the Fittest: Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection by encouraging them to formulate questions that can be answered through scientific investi
Survival of the Fittest: Battling Beetles
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection through data collection and pattern recognition.
The Jelly Bean Problem (JBP)
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In this activity, learners are challenged to eat some candy as a cell would need to as well as to think about some of the problems that arise when a cell ingests food.
Fruity-Glows: Pictures of Health on a Microarray Canvas
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In this activity (page 12), learners apply the concepts of pixilation and pointillism to the world of biomedical science.