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In this sports-themed engineering activity, learners create super bouncy balls out of balloons. Learners brainstorm, test their designs, and share results.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity linking human health to the environment, learners use their pulse rates as a measure of the effort expended in walking on different slopes.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Double Dutch), learners will stand twelve feet apart swinging a rope at the slowest tempo possible while someone uses a stopwatch to record

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this math lesson, learners construct box-and-whisker plots to analyze and compare data sets. Learners investigate whether or not long-legged people run faster than short-legged people.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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This trick from Exploratorium physicist Paul Doherty lets you add together the bounces of two balls and send one ball flying.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Luge) is a full inquiry-based challenge related to motion and design optimization.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners participate in fun movement activities while playing on a giant game board. Use this activity to get learners involved in physical activity.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners track their movements with jumping and leaping graphs.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity about physical stress (page 28 of PDF), learners discover that muscles and bones need to work to stay strong.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 4 weeks
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This activity about cryptographic techniques illustrates how to accomplish a simple, but nevertheless seemingly impossible task—making a fair, random choice by flipping a coin between two people who d

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this health and fitness activity, learners focus on the importance of daily physical activity, specifically walking.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this movement and measurement activity, learners jump as far as they can three times, and compare their longest jump to the longest jump of their friends, classmates and/or family members.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes