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Traveling Through Different Liquids
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  Learners observe and record what happens when they manipulate bottles containing a liquid (water or corn syrup) and one or more objects (screw, nail, paper clip).
   
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.
   
Mystery Boxes for Grades 3-5
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  Learners manipulate opaque, sealed boxes and attempt to determine their interior structures. Each box contains a moving ball and one or more fixed barriers.
   
Exploring Bouncing Balls
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  Learners explore the physical properties of a variety of balls and how they bounce.
   
Number Patterns
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  In this lesson, learners are challenged to discover the relationship among six numbers.
   
Crime Scene: The Case of the Missing Computer Chip
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  Learners use scientific processes to solve a crime. As they get clues, learners must create a hypothesis then adjust that hypothesis as more information is revealed.
   
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.
   
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.
   
Scientific Measurement Exercise
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  Learners measure irregularly shaped bones using a variety of measurement methods and tools. Then, they measure again using standard conventions and metric tape measures.
  