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Walking Polygons
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In this activity, learners walk the sides and interior angles of various polygons drawn on the playground. As they do so, learners practice rotating clockwise 180° and 360°.

Jumping to Conclusions
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In this online brain stumper, the bottom half of a series of letters is covered. You may think you know what it says, but remove the black bar to see if you're right.

Ocean Acidification in a Cup
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Ocean acidification is a problem that humans will have to deal with as we release more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Reflecting Rainbows: Decorate Your White Walls With Rainbow Colors!
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Like water drops in falling rain, a CD separates white light into all the colors that make it up.

Bronx Cheer Bulb
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In this activity, learners observe what happens when they give a light source like a neon glow lamp a "Bronx Cheer." The lights appear to wiggle back and forth and flicker when learners blow air throu

Paper Airplanes
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In this activity, learners explore the properties of paper by constructing and modifying paper airplanes.

Springs and Stomachs
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In this demonstration, learners investigate mass, gravity, and acceleration by dropping a wooden bar with a balloon attached to its underside, a mass suspended from it by rubber bands, and a sharp-poi

Black Magic (Color Chromatography)
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With a coffee filter, a black marker, and a cup of water, discover the secret colors hidden in black ink.

Mirrorly a Window
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In this activity about light and reflection, learners discover that what you see is often affected by what you expect to see.

Parabolas: It's All Done with Mirrors
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In this activity about light and reflection, learners use a special device called a Mirage Maker™ to create an illusion.

Pi Toss
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In this activity, learners explore a surprising method for calculating the mathematical constant pi, known as Buffon's Needle.

Tiny Pants Photo Challenge
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In this activity, learners use a simple trick of perspective to dress friends in tiny cutout clothing. Learners make tiny pants out of card stock and tape them to the end of a stick.

Fading Dot
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In this activity, learners play with a fuzzy-colored dot that has no distinct edges seems to disappear. As learners stare at the dot, its color appears to blend with the colors surrounding it.

The Amazing Water Trick
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Using two baby food jars, food coloring, and an index card, you'll 'marry' the jars to see how hot water and cold water mix.

Organ Pipe: Get Bach to the fundamentals
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If you got a big graduated or clear cylinder, water, a pipe, and a tuning fork, you've got a sound learning opportunity! Learn about resonance with this Exploratorium Science Snack.

Cutting Pi
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In this activity, learners use a string and pair of scissors to find pi in the world all around them. Take the circumference of a round object with string and cut the string to that length.

Shrinking Spot
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In this activity, learners control the (apparent) size of a hole with their brain.

Electrostatic Water Attraction
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In this activity, learners conduct a simple experiment to see how electrically charged things like plastic attract electrically neutral things like water.

Toast a Mole!
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In this quick activity, learners drink Avogadro's number worth of molecules - 6.02x10^23 molecules!

Balancing Stick
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In this quick and simple activity, learners explore how the distribution of the mass of an object determines the position of its center of gravity, its angular momentum, and your ability to balance it