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Neurotransmitters Contain Chemicals
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In this activity, learners play a simple card game to learn the sequence of events in the transmission of nervous system signals.
Share Your Planet
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In this cooperative game, learners devise strategies about sharing a small space with each other.
Two Washers
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In this activity, learners create a mind and math puzzle that requires a three-dimensional solution.
Pinball Wizard
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In this hands-on engineering project, kids use two simple machines, levers and inclined planes, to construct their own pinball machines.
The Game of Life: Stem Cell Edition
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In this activity, learners play a game that models what happens as stem cells differentiate into different cell types.
What's in the Bag?
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In this activity, young learners use their sense of touch rather than sight to identify a mystery object in a bag. Learners take turns acting as "peekers" and "sensers" throughout the game.
Fantastic Four: A Math Card Game
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This is a game that is sure to sharpen players' basic math skills. Players must use four randomly selected numbers to create an equation that equals a fifth number.
Hidden Rainbow
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In this math puzzle, one player hides a rainbow of four colors while another player tries to guess the hidden rainbow colors in the correct order.
Eat Like a Bird
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Birds' beaks are designed to allow birds to get the most of whatever food they need. In this activity, learners get an idea of how different beak shapes suit different food sources.
Stem Cell Differentiation Game
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This game uses a modified Uno deck to review concepts related to stem cell research and diabetes.
Where the Buffalo Roam
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In this activity, learners explore the Great Plains.
What's So Special about Water: Surface Tension
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In this three-part activity, learners play a game and conduct two simple experiments to explore water and surface tension. Learners will have fun discovering how water "sticks" together.
Smell Match
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In this matching activity (3rd activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to match pairs of opaque containers filled with various smelly items like orange peel, roses, or moth balls.
Games of Chance and Brains
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In this activity, learners build and play three math games. In the first game, called "Switcheroo," learners place marbles in holes 1 through 4 and 7 through 10.
Web of Life Game
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In this game, learners each represent a different organism in an environment. They build a web during the activity, and discover how all the players in an ecosystem depend on each other.
Topological Puzzles
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In this activity, learners construct three math puzzles out of simple materials like wood, string, and Styrofoam.
Kidbots
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In this activity, one person acts as a human robot while another acts as their developer by programming their actions.
A System of Transport
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In this activity about the human heart (on page 5 of the PDF), learners work in teams to simulate the volume of blood moved through the circulatory system by transferring liquid into--and through--a s
Survivors! The People of the Arctic
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In this activity, learners use maps to locate the Arctic region and use a word game to discover the types of resource people need to survive in the extreme climate.