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Cool It!
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  In this fun hands-on activity, learners use simple materials to investigate evaporation. How can the evaporation of water on a hot day be used to cool an object? Find out the experimental way!
  
Supersize That Dinosaur
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  In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "The Littlest Dinosaurs" by Bernard Most. Then, learners estimate the size of a Triceratops and T.
  
Try Your Hand at Nano
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  This lesson focuses on two simple activities that younger learners can do to gain an appreciation of nanotechnology. First, learners measure their hands in nanometers.
  
Exploring Size: Scented Solutions
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  This is an activity in which learners will find that they can detect differences in concentration better with their nose (smelling) than with their eyes (seeing).
  Building Houses: Build a Cardboard Tube House
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  Build a house you can fit inside, using cardboard tubes.
  
Egyptian Measuring
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  In this activity, learners compare the ancient Egyptian system of measurement, which was based on body lengths, to the customary and metric systems used today.
  
Compare Dinosaur Body Parts
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  In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "The Littlest Dinosaurs" by Bernard Most to learn about the different sizes of dinosaurs.
  Piece It Together: Puzzle Hunt
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  In this activity, learners follow clues to find five puzzle pieces, then assemble them. This activity works well with a whole group, individuals, or families.
  
Explore Like a Scientist: Fruity Observations
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  In this activity, learners use their senses to collect information about a fruit and record their findings in a Science Journal.
  
Exploring Measurement
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  In this "Sid the Science Kid" activity, learners use their bodies to measure a room. Instead of inches or feet, how many kids does it take to measure the length of a room?
  
A Question of Balance
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  In this activity, learners explore how engineers use scales and measures when designing a manufacturing process to ensure that final products are uniform in weight or count.
  
Measuring the Wind
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  In this activity, learners explore how anemometers work to record wind speeds and how the equipment has undergone engineering adaptations over time.
  
Topographic Investigation: Map an Underwater Surface
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  In this activity, learners create a map of a hidden surface using a "sounding stick" -- a technique similar to how underwater maps were once made.
  
Comparing Sizes of Microorganisms
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  In this activity related to microbes, learners create scale models of microorganisms and compare relative sizes of common bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa using metric measures: meters, centimete
  
Hand Biometrics Technology
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  In this activity, learners explore how engineers incorporate biometric technologies into products as well as the challenges of engineers who must weigh privacy, security and other issues when designin
  
Take It in Stride
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  In this health and fitness activity, learners focus on the importance of daily physical activity, specifically walking.
  
Growing Plants
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  In this "Sid the Science Kid" activity from Episode 107: My Shrinking Shoes, learners observe how plants change as they grow.
  
A Cubic Foot Per Second
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  In this activity, learners measure and calculate the amount of cubic feet various containers contain. Next, learners investigate cubic feet per second (cps), by carrying jugs in one second.
  Big and Little Cups
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  In this indoor or outdoor water activity, learners pour water from small cups to large cups and containers. In doing so, they discover water takes the shape of its container.
  
Are you a Square or a Rectangle?
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  In this activity, learners investigate whether more people are squares or rectangles. People with similarly sized heights and arm spans are classified as squares.