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The Jelly Bean Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore how their sense of smell affects their taste buds. Learners taste different flavored jelly beans while holding their nose.

Pulse Pointer
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In this activity, learners investigate circulation and measure their own your heartbeat. A heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times the heart beats per minute.

Slap Shot
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How quick are your reflexes? In this online game, you are a hockey goalie defending quick slap shots. Learn about reaction time, muscle memory, and reflexes.

Blind Spot
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In this activity, learners conduct a simple test to find their blind spot.

Cartesian Diver
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In this demonstration, learners observe the effects of density and pressure. A "diver" constructed out of a piece of straw and Blu-Tack will bob inside a bottle filled with water.

Straw Kazoo
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In this activity, learners make some music by constructing a kazoo out of a simple plastic drinking straw. Use this activity to explore sound, vibrations, and music.

Open Heart: Disease and Diagnosis
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In this online activity about heart disease, learners will pick one of three patients (based on actual patient histories) and help a cardiologist diagnose and prescribe treatments for him or her.

Construct a Heart Circulation Model
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In this online activity about anatomy, learners will correctly order the path blood takes through the heart in order to absorb oxygen to deliver to the rest of the body.

Go with the Flow
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In this activity, learners discover how hard their hearts work to pump blood.
Are you a Supertaster?
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In this activity, learners examine their tongue and taste buds.

Experiencing Parallax With Your Thumb
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In this activity, learners investigate parallax, a method used to measure distances to stars and planets in the solar system.
Why is the Sky Blue?
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In this activity, learners create a "mini sky" in a glass of water in a dark room.
Guiding Light
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In this optics activity, learners use glass and water to demonstrate total internal reflection (TIR).
Test Your Lung Power
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In this activity, learners try to blow up a balloon hanging inside of an empty bottle.

Soil Density
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In this activity, learners will test soil content using their sample, some water and a container that seals.

Curve Control
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In this online game, learners must keep their snowboarding racer in the middle of the course without veering off track or hitting obstacles.

Assemble the Human Heart
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In this online activity about anatomy, learners will drag and drop pieces of the heart into their proper positions and explore what function each part of the heart has.

Release the Rainbow
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In this activity, learners create a water prism to break light into the seven colors of the rainbow.

Make Money Appear Before Your Eyes
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In this optics activity, learners use water to make a coin "appear" and "disappear." Use this activity to demonstrate how light refracts and introduce light as waves.