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Heating and Cooling of the Earth's Surface
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Learners conduct an experiment to determine the rate at which two materials, sand and water, heat up and cool down.
Dogs and Turnips
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Learners turn over a random selection of cards from a larger set. From the words revealed, they try to determine the sentence represented on the larger set of cards.
Swinging Yo-Yo
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Learners build a pendulum from a yo-yo, and then design their own experiment to determine what affects the pendulum's period of swing.
Buoyancy Bulls-Eye
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In this hands-on activity, learners will construct a scuba diver that can float in order to explore how sea creatures stay neutrally buoyant in the ocean and to see what kinds of forces might be influ
The Checks Lab
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A group of learners has an envelope containing a series of bank checks. A few checks are removed at a time, and the team attempts to construct a plausible scenario which involves those checks.
Exploring Bouncing Balls
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Learners explore the physical properties of a variety of balls and how they bounce.
Xenosmilus
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Learners imagine they are paleontologists in Florida, where they find (remove from envelope) paper "fossils" of some unknown creature, only a few at a time.