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In this activity, learners construct a playable kazoo from inexpensive materials. They will experience how vibration creates sound waves and music.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners use beach profile data from a local beach or online data from Ocean City, Maryland to investigate coastal erosion and sediment transport.

per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners create a ripple tank from household materials to study waves. Learners build the tank and then explore by making various types of waves.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this seismic simulation, learners play a "who-dunnit" game to explore earthquakes.

free Ages 11 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this oceanography and data collection activity, learners cast real time sea state conditions using buoys from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 14 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this physics activity (page 4 of the PDF), learners will--using nothing more than a coat hanger and some string--explore and understand sound energy and how it moves.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners explore interference by adding wax blocks to a ripple tank.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 14 - adult 5 to 10 minutes