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Pressing Pressure
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  In this activity, learners compare water pressure at different depths. Learners discover that water pressure increases with depth.
  
Oil Spill Cleanup
This hands-on experiment will provide learners with an understanding of the issues that surround environmental cleanup.
  
Submersibles and Marshmallows
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  In this activity, learners discover the difficulty of ocean exploration by human beings as they investigate water pressure.
  
Density Intensity
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  In this activity on page 12 of the PDF (Rethinking the 3 R’s: It’s Easy to be Green), learners examine how recyclable materials are separated by various properties at recycling centers.
  
Weighty Questions
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  In this activity about humans and space travel (page 1 of PDF), learners compare and contrast the behavior of a water-filled plastic bag, both outside and inside of a container of water.
  
Cooling Off
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  In this activity, learners are introduced to challenges of maintaining temperatures while living in space.
  
Plastics the Second Time Around
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  In this activity, learners test and compare the physical properties of thermoplastic polymers. Learners compare different plastics based on their color, degree of transparency, texture, and density.
  
Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
Learners conduct two activities to investigate two properties of liquids: density and viscosity. In a clear container, learners stack 7 different liquids which will layer according to their density.
  
Challenge: Microgravity
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  In this activity about the circulatory system and space travel (on page 38 of the PDF), learners use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the bod
  
Boats Afloat
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  In this activity, learners discover what buoyancy is and determine the characteristics that make an object buoyant. Learners design, build, test, and evaluate boats made from a variety of materials.
  Build A Hydrometer
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  In this activity, learners will explore how a hydrometer works by building a working model and conducting experiments.
  
Convection Demonstration
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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.
  
That's the Way the Ball Bounces: Level 2
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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.
  
Design a Submarine
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  Learners act as engineers and design mini submarines that move in the water like real submarines.
  
Milli's Super Sorting Challenge
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  In this activity, learners separate materials based on their special properties to mimic the way recyclables are sorted at recycling centers.
  
Diving Submarine
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  Learners use a commercially available toy to experiment with density. They fill a chamber in the toy submarine with baking powder and release it into a tank of water.