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In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 41-47 of PDF), learners explore tesselating geometric patterns (repeated shapes, similar to the art of M.C. Escher).

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this design challenge activity, learners explore the concept of biomimicry by using a natural organism's special features to design a new human object.

free Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this math lesson, learners are introduced to proportional reasoning through modeling, sharing, and questioning techniques.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity about problem-solving, learners build a house for the Three Little Pigs using twenty straws and two index cards.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Use multiplication to help the aliens find out how much fuel they need to get their spacecrafts home.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this interactive board game, learners "hire" different types of scientists to help canine character Ruff Ruffman solve unusual problems.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this design challenge, learners will create their own roller coaster using household objects for the track and a marble or small ball as their cart.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this classic memory game (on pages 37-45 of PDF), learners turn over tiles to reveal images on the back.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity learners will build roller coasters and test them using small balls or marbles.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this Cyberchase activity, learners use the numbers one through six to solve a puzzle.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity (on pages 21-32 of PDF) has learners act out several classic brain teasers.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this math activity, challenge learners to make two equal rows from eight different paper strips. Learners can explore the many ways they can solve this problem.

free Ages 6 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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Build your own Mini Mini Golf Course and learn about hands-on building and design, basic circuitry, motion modules and more!

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 18 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity (on pages 49-54 of PDF), learners play with tangrams, a set of triangles, squares and a parallelogram that can combine into a larger square as well as all sorts of other shapes.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, young learners use their sense of touch rather than sight to identify a mystery object in a bag. Learners take turns acting as "peekers" and "sensers" throughout the game.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore geometry and spatial relationships as they figure out how to arrange tables for a party.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a parachute out of tissue paper, tape, and string. Then, learners test their parachute to see how many paper clips it can carry.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this hands-on activity, learners use toothpicks to build different triangles and squares and then use the toothpicks to build and solve some tricky shape puzzles.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this fun activity about spiders, learners build and design a spider from cardstock, straw, string, and pipe cleaners.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes