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DNA Modeling Activity
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  Using pipe cleaners, straws, and beads, learners explore the building blocks of life by creating their own model of DNA.
   
Build a Bell Bracelet
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  Learners make bell bracelets, place them on their wrists or ankles, and then dance to the rhythms and sounds the bells make. Many cultures use ankle or wrist bells to make music during dancing.
   
Making Vocal Cords
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  In this activity, learners imitate the way vocal cords work by building a model from a plastic cup, rubber band, and a straw.
   
Pickle-oh!: Musical Pickle Instrument
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  What's a Pickle-Oh? Two pieces of pickle on a stick are connected to a Pico Cricket (micro controller). When you slide the pickles apart the note changes.
   
Solving Dissolving
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  The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá is a sink hole, or well, containing groundwater. In this activity, learners create their own cenote using chalk, limestone, acids, and rain water.
   
Liquid Layers
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  Experiment with liquids of different densities and create liquid layers. For example, oil and water have different densities: oil floats on water because it is less dense than water.
   
Make a Balance / Scale
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  In this activity, learners create a kind of balance device using a wire coat hanger, some string, and paper cups.
  