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Short Circuit
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In this activity about electricity, learners explore what happens when you blow a fuse.

Change in Temperature: Endothermic Reaction
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Learners investigate signs of a chemical reaction when they mix vinegar and baking soda. In addition to a gas being produced, learners also notice the temperature decreases.

Achieving Orbit
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In this Engineering Design Challenge activity, learners will use balloons to investigate how a multi-stage rocket, like that used in the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, can propel a sat

Upside-Down Town
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In this activity, learners explore ray optics. Learners discover that they can use a magnifying glass to create an upside-down image.

Getting Windy
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In this activity, learners create and understand surface currents. Learners create example surface currents and discover how landmasses affect the current.

Motor Effect
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In this activity about electricity and magnetism, learners examine what happens when a magnet exerts a force on a current-carrying wire.

Feed the Birds
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Learners construct a bird feeder from re-used materials. After hanging their feeder, they keep a journal about what birds visit the feeder.

Torsion Drum
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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.

Hydraulic Car
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In this activity, learners build cars using syringes and water-powered hydraulics. Learners construct the car frame out of cardboard and set up a hydraulic system to raise and lower the car.

The Ups and Downs of Thermometers
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In this activity, learners examine the parts of a thermometer. After placing a thermometer in hot and cold water, learners look at molecular model animations of the liquid in a thermometer.

Dinosaur Footprints & Fossils
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In this activity, early learners simulate fossil prints in play dough or clay.

Spaghetti Bridge
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Learners explore the field of civil engineering by making a bridge using spaghetti as their primary building material.

Build a Tree
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This activity (on pages 13-18) has learners build a model tree and then figure out how to make their tree stand up by itself.

Frog Eggs
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In this activity, learners compare frog eggs to chicken eggs to better understand why frog eggs need water. Learners compare a boiled chicken egg to "frog eggs" represented by boiled tapioca.

Bubble Suspension
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In this activity, learners observe as soap bubbles float on a cushion of carbon dioxide gas. Learners blow bubbles into an aquarium filled with a slab of dry ice.

Handwriting Analysis
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In this forensics activity, students will explore the methods that investigators use to confirm the authenticity of handwriting.

Battling for Oxygen
Working in groups, learners model the continuous destruction and creation of ozone (O3) molecules, which occur in the ozone layer.

Teen Moon: Moon Ooze
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In this activity, learners model how the Moon's volcanic period reshaped its earlier features.

On the Fringe (formerly Bridge Light)
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In this activity, learners trap a thin layer of air between two pieces of Plexiglas to produce rainbow-colored interference patterns.

Mystery Tubes
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Learners investigate a pre-constructed mystery tube to determine its interior mechanism.