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Heavyweight Champion: Jupiter
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  In this activity, learners confront their perceptions of gravity in the solar system.
   
Dunking the Planets
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  In this demonstration, learners compare the relative sizes and masses of scale models of the planets as represented by fruits and other foods.
   
The Pull of the Planets
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  In this activity, learners model the gravitational fields of planets on a flexible surface.
   
Make a Dinosaur
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  In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs" by Byron Barton to understand some background information about dinosaurs.
   
Scale Model of Sun and Earth
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  In this activity, learners explore the relative size of the Sun and Earth as well as the distance between them.
   
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.
   
Eclipse: How can the little Moon hide the giant Sun?
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  In this activity, learners explore how distance can affect the way we perceive the size of an object.
   
Size, Mass, Area, and Volume
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  In this activity (page 23 of PDF), learners conduct an experiment to determine how the size and mass of a projectile affects the area and the volume of an impact crater.
   
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.
   
Build a Solar System
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  In this activity, learners make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the real definition of "space." Learners use the online calculator to create an appropriate scale to use as a basis for thei
  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.
   
How Big is Small
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  In this classic hands-on activity, learners estimate the length of a molecule by floating a fatty acid (oleic acid) on water.
  