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Healthy Choices: A Family A-Fair
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Learners and their families celebrate and recognize the importance of making healthy choices every day by participating in a health fair.

Build a Big Wheel
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers have developed big wheels or Ferris wheels.

Power To Go
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Learners observe an electrochemical cell constructed from a small jar containing zinc and copper strips immersed in separate solutions. The strips are connected to a motor that turns a small fan.

Hunting for "Measured" Treasure
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In this math lesson, learners rotate through various centers while comparing and ordering objects according to length.

Shaving Cream Marbling
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In this activity, learners will create beautiful greeting cards by marbling with shaving cream and food dye. They will explore the chemistry behind the art of marbling.

Engineer an Octopus Suction Pad
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In this engineering design challenge, learners build an octopus-inspired suction pad that can grab an object and hold it tightly in the air.

Envirolopes
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In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.

Electric Messages: Then and Now
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In this activity, learners explore electronic communication, the Morse Code system, and advances all the way through text messaging. Learners build a simple circuit, send messages to one another.

Ship the Chip
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In this activity, learners explore engineering package designs that meet the needs of safely shipping a product.

Serving Sizes
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In this nutrition and estimation activity (page 12 of PDF), learners estimate serving sizes of different foods and compare their estimates to serving size information provided on nutrition food labels

Observing Insects at Night
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In this activity, learners set up a night time insect observation station with a light and sheet.

Hand Spin Helicopter
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In this activity, learners build helicopters and launchers using wooden dowels and scrap paper. Use this activity to explore rotational motion and kinetic and potential energy.

Starting Your Container Garden
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This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!

Super Gelatin
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Can gelatin (like Jell-O ®) change the speed of light?

Phase Changes
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Learners observe a sealed test tube containing a small amount of solid stearic acid.

Grass Seed Hair Cups
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In this activity learners will plant grass seed and track the growth of the grass over time.

Chemistry Cake
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In this exciting and tasty chemistry activity which requires adult supervision, learners explore how chemistry affects a simple everyday activity like cooking.

Extruding
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This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can explore the process of extrusion used to produce pipes and wires in industry.

Flashlights and Batteries
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In this activity, learners explore how a flashlight works, showing the electric circuit and switch functions of this everyday household item.

Owl Pellets
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In this activity (page 7 of the PDF), learners will investigate the contents of owl pellets. Learners will discover how owls digest their food as well as the kind of animals they eat.