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Quick Questions: Learn About Data
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In this activity, learners will collect and analyze data to learn about the people around them. How many letters in everyone’s first name? What’s the most common number of letters?

Mystery Number
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Combine logic and numbers in this game for all ages. Players start with a 10x10 grid of the numbers 1 to 100. One person chooses a secret number and announces the range in which it falls.

Dinosaur Count and Sort
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In this activity, learners sort and count different colored plastic dinosaurs by various attributes including tail length, whether or not the dinosaurs have horns, etc.

Sharks: Taking a Bite Out of The Myth
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In this activity, learners will explore trends in shark populations using shark landing data from the National Marine Fisheries Service.

pH Scale
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In this online interactive simulation, learners will test the pH of liquids like coffee, spit, and soap to determine whether each is acidic, basic, or neutral.

Water, Water Everywhere
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In this activity, learners estimate how much water they think can be found in various locations on the Earth in all its states (solid, liquid, and gas) to discover the different water ratios in the Ea

Count Around
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Learners explore their surroundings while reasoning about categories and counting.
Composting: A Scientific Investigation
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In this activity, learners conduct a scientific investigation involving decomposition and discover that the life cycle of trash is affected by its organic or inorganic nature.

Three Circles of Pigments
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In this activity, learners overlap the three primary colors to see how all other colors are made.

Reflections
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In this quick activity, Dracula has a hole in his house and learners help solve the problem by using a mirror and protractor to reflect incoming light out of his house.
Narrow It Down: Asking Yes-No Questions
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In this activity, the learner asks yes-no questions to identify a secret object (similar to Twenty Questions). This game is easy to adapt for different ages and different kinds of contexts.

Patterns in Pixels
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This activity (page 2) draws upon a familiar, computer-based concept related to visual resolution: pixilation.

Crew Strength Training
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In this activity, learners will train to develop upper and lower body strength in their muscles and bones by performing body-weight squats and push-ups.

Simple Machines
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This is an online activity about simple machines. Learners will try their hand at putting these amazing devices to work. They will use several simple machines to help "build" a tree house.

Sound Representation: Modems Unplugged
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In this activity, learners listen to songs and decode hidden messages based on the same principle as a modem. As a final challenge, learners decode the binary messages in a music video.

Slush Rush
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In this online game, learners run an outer space drink stand and thirsty alien customers are on the way.

The Daily Ups and Downs
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In this activity, learners graph 48 hourly air temperatures from a local weather observation site and observe the diurnal temperature variations.

Exploring Measurement
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In this "Sid the Science Kid" activity, learners use their bodies to measure a room. Instead of inches or feet, how many kids does it take to measure the length of a room?

Half Full or Half Empty
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In this activity (12th activity on the page), learners conduct an experiment to demonstrate how muscles are constantly feeding information to the brain about what they are doing.

Biodiversity and Evolutionary Trees
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In this interactive activity, learners analyze seashells to explore phylogeny and evolution. Learners identify similar and dissimilar seashells to create a phylogenetic tree.