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In this activity, learners use cheap, thin plastic garbage bags to quickly build a solar hot air balloon. In doing so, learners will explore why hot air rises.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how hot and cold water move. Learners observe that temperature and density affect how liquids rise and fall.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore density, convection, stratification, and, by inference, the melting of icebergs. Learners make hypotheses, test their hypotheses, and explain their observations.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this quick activity (located on page 2 of the PDF under GPS: Balloon Fiesta Activity), learners will see the effects of convection and understand what makes hot air balloons rise.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners prepare four polymer elastomers and then compare their physical properties, such as texture, color, volume, density, and bounce height.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners are introduced to challenges of maintaining temperatures while living in space.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners investigate convection by using food coloring and water of different temperatures.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This activity about density provides instructions for making a miniature "lava lite" with just salt, oil, water, and food coloring.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners investigate how the temperature of water affects its density.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners practice the steps involved in a scientific investigation while learning why ice formations on land (not those on water) will cause a rise in sea level upon melting.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours