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Skin Deep
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In this activity, learners explore how to protect their skin while applying pesticides to plants.

Surface Tension
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In this activity exploring liquid dynamics, learners design and build a clay channel in a tray of water and then see what happens when food coloring and liquid soap are added to the mix.

Does Sunscreen Protect My DNA?
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In this laboratory experiment, learners explore how effectively different sunscreens protect yeast cells from damage caused by ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Amphibian Skin
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of permeability to better understand why amphibians are extremely sensitive to pollution.
Pepper Scatter
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In this activity, learners explore the forces at work in water. Learners experiment to find out what happens to pepper in water when they touch it with bar soap and liquid detergent.

Pepper Scatter
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In this quick activity, learners break the tension that happens when water develops a "skin." Learners use water, pepper and some soap to discover the wonders of surface tension—the force that attract

Cold Metal
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In this activity, learners discover that our hands are not reliable thermometers.

Save Your Skin
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This is a fun activity about the power of the Sun and the importance of using sunscreen to protect your sensitive skin from its rays.

Test the Finger Wrinkle Hypothesis
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Learners create a tool to measure how well they grip a wet object when their fingers are smooth versus wrinkly. Are smooth or wrinkly fingers better at holding on to the object?

Exploring Ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun
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In this outdoor activity, learners explore UV rays from the Sun and ways to protect against these potentially harmful rays.

Soak It Up: Understanding Amphibian Permeability
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In this activity, learners will discover how the thin layers of amphibians' skin allow water and other chemicals to pass through it.

Crazy Camouflage
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In this activity about camouflage, learners create a model that shows how a flounder is able to blend into a variety of environments.