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Lava Layering: Making and Mapping a Volcano
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In this activity, learners discover how geologists use stratigraphy, the study of layered rock, to understand the sequence of geological events.

Hold a Hill
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

Lichen Looking
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for lichen, a combination of a fungus and an alga living together. Lichen grow where most other plants cannot, on rocks, the trunks of trees, logs and sand.

Water Clean-up
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under Water Clean-up Activity) about the use of reduction agents to decontaminate ground water.

What's Hiding in the Air?: Acid Rain Activity
As a model of acid rain, learners water plants with three different solutions: water only, vinegar only, vinegar-water mixture.

Dunking the Planets
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In this demonstration, learners compare the relative sizes and masses of scale models of the planets as represented by fruits and other foods.

Rock Pioneers
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners investigate organisms that live along the ocean's rocky coast.

Geometry and Algebra: The Future Flight Equation
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In this activity, learners discover how NASA engineers develop experimental aircraft.

Engineer a Dam
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In this activity, learners explore the function and engineering of dams and how dams have many uses and solve many problems in the world.

How We Know What The Dinosaurs Looked Like: How Fossils Were Formed
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In this activity (p.7-8 of PDF), learners examine fossil formation.

Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover
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In this activity, learners build a nanorover model using styrofoam meat trays and a balloon.

Weather Stations: Temperature and Pressure
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In this activity, learners discover the relationship between temperature and pressure in the lower atmospheres of Jupiter and Earth.

Making Connections: What You Can Do To Help Stop Global Climate Change
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In this cooperative learning activity, learners visit ten stations and are challenged to think critically about various conservation questions and issues.

Jiggly Jupiter
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In this activity, learners build edible models of Jupiter and Earth to compare their sizes and illustrate the planets' internal layers.

Carbon Dioxide Removal
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In this experiment using sprigs of Elodea, learners will observe a natural process that removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth's atmosphere.

Washing Air
Learners observe and discuss a simple model of a wet scrubber, a device for cleaning industrial air pollution.

Exploring the Ocean with Robots
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In this activity, learners are introduced to robotic submarines called gliders. Learners make “gliders” from plastic syringes and compare these to Cartesian bottles and plastic bubbles.

Water Underground
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Many people get water from a source deep underground, called groundwater.

Earth Attractions
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In this activity, learners build and test a compass. Learners work in pairs and pretend they are stuck in the wilderness at night.

Making Regolith
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This lesson will helps learners answer the question: How does the bombardment of micrometeoroids make regolith on the moon?