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Sublime Sublimation
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In this activity, learners explore sublimation by conducting experiments with dry ice.
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Exploring Earth: Investigating Clouds
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“Exploring Earth: Investigating Clouds” is a hands-on activity in which visitors create a cloud in a bottle and explore it with laser light.
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Imploding Pop Can
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In this dramatic activity/demonstration about phase change and condensation, learners place an aluminum can filled with about two tablespoons of water on a stove burner.
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Weather Stations: Phase Change
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In this activity, learners observe the water cycle in action! Water vapor in a tumbler condenses on chilled aluminum foil — producing the liquid form of water familiar to us as rain and dew.
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Balloon in a Flask
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Learners observe a flask with a balloon attached over the mouth and inverted inside the flask.
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Balloon Inside a Bottle
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In this activity about phase change and condensation, learners boil water in an empty pop bottle in the microwave.
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Light Soda
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In this activity, learners sublimate dry ice and then taste the carbon dioxide gas.
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Fog Chamber
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In this weather-related activity, learners make a portable cloud in a bottle.
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Hot Stuff!
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In this activity, learners discover that sand is the major ingredient in glass.
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"Boyle-ing" Water
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In this activity, learners explore Boyle's Law and discover that water will boil at room temperature if its pressure is lowered.
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Sublimation Bubbles
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"Sublimation Bubbles" allows learners to explore how some solid materials, such as dry ice, can phase change directly from their solid to gaseous form.
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Make a Water Cycle Wristband
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In this activity, learners thread colored beads onto string. Each beach represent a process of the water cycle.