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Fizzy Nano Challenge
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This lesson focuses on how materials behave differently as their surface area increases.
Lifting with Levers!
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In this fun hands-on activity learners explore a simple machine: the lever. What happens to a load when you multiply the length of a lever? Find out here!
CD Spinner
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In this activity, learners create a simple “top” from a CD, marble and bottle cap, and use it as a spinning platform for a variety of illusion-generating patterns.
Digit's Cyber-Dough
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In this fun hands-on activity, learners whip up a batch of cyber-dough (play dough) using math for measurements.
Two Washers
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In this activity, learners create a mind and math puzzle that requires a three-dimensional solution.
Making a One-Second Timer
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This lab activity has learners create a pendulum with a one-second period.
Measure the Speed of a Water Leak
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In this activity (page 2 of PDF under GPS: Glaciers Activity), learners will measure the rate at which water streams out of a leaky cup.
Landing the Rover
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In this team design challenge (page 19-24 of PDF), learners "land" a model Lunar Rover in a model Landing Pod (both previously built in activities #3 and #4 in PDF).
Linear Functions: Mystery Liquids
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In this math lesson, learners analyze the density of liquids in order to explore linear functions.
Patterns and Relationships: Peddling Petals
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In this math lesson, learners use the setting of a flower-making fundraiser to explore a variety of patterns. Learners examine the patterns in a flower design made of triangles surrounding a square.
Geometry: Let's Face It
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In this math lesson, learners identify, describe, and construct the five regular polyhedra.
Make a Tikiville Teepee
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In this great hands-on activity, learners use patterns to make a teepee from newspaper that they sit inside.
Growing Plants: Track Their Growth
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In this activity, learners will be working with predictions with a time frame of one week, or longer. Start by planting seedlings.
Secret Codon
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In this activity, "write" a secret message in genetic code as beads on a string.
How Big is Small
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In this classic hands-on activity, learners estimate the length of a molecule by floating a fatty acid (oleic acid) on water.
Penny Estimation
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In this math activity, learners estimate how many pennies are in a jar by predicting and counting handfuls of pennies.
Design a Lunar Rover!
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In this team design challenge (page 2-10 of PDF), learners design and build a model of a Lunar Transport Rover that will carry equipment and people on the surface of the Moon.
Having a Gas with Cola
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In this activity, learners measure the amount of carbon dioxide in a carbonated drink.
Design a Landing Pod!
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In this team design challenge (page 11-18 of PDF), learners design and build a Landing Pod for a model Lunar Rover (previously built in activity on page 1-10 of PDF).
Pi Graph
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In this activity, learners use a straight line to learn about circles. Learners measure and record the diameter and circumference of different sized cylindrical objects on a chart.