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Egg Drop
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In this activity, learners will design a protective package for an egg that will allow the egg to withstand a fall without cracking.

Pinhole Viewer
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In this activity, learners discuss and investigate how cameras, telescopes, and their own eyes use light in similar ways.

Build Your Own Robot Arm
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In this lesson, learners develop a robot arm using common materials. Learners explore design, construction, and teamwork, as well as materials selection and use.

Number Sense and Computation: Soak It Up
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In this math lesson, learners compare products to determine the best product.

Geometry: Let's Face It
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In this math lesson, learners identify, describe, and construct the five regular polyhedra.

Make a Dinosaur Model
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons, anatomy, and locomotion. Learners compare and contrast dinosaur skeletons and drawings.

Whirling Windmills
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In this activity, learners are challenged to design and construct a windmill to harness the power of wind.

Jump Into Design: Understanding the Design Process
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In this series of activities (page 5), students are introduced to the design process.

From Here to There
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In this water activity, learners discover ways to move water across the water table.

Construction and Destruction
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In this three/four-day lesson, learners calculate perimeters and areas and draw the castle plan to scale.

Helicopter Twirl
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Learners cut and fold a paper helicopter from the template in this PDF. They practice twirling the helicopter and observe what happens as they modify their tries.

Animal House
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The goal of this activity is to design, build and test a house or toy for an animal.

Be a Plumber
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In this activity (located on page 6 of the PDF), learners explore the ways people access water in their homes.

Life Size: What's in a microbe?
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In this activity on page 3 of the PDF, learners visualize the relative size and structural differences between microbes that have the potential to cause disease.

Clean Water: Is It Drinkable?
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In this activity, learners simulate nature's water filtration system by devising a system that will filter out both visible and invisible pollutants from water.

Exploring a Complex Space-Filling Shape
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In this activity, learners build a paper stellated rhombic dodecahedron, a three-dimensional 12-pointed star.

Cats and Canaries
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In this math puzzle game, learners work together to use algebraic reasoning and fun clues for solving word puzzles.

Cup Speaker
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Make your own speaker with a magnet, wire, and paper cup! If you have a radio with a headphone plug and an old pair of headphones, this is a great tinkering activity.

Light Quest
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Learners test their "light-smarts" by playing a game called "Light Quest!" The game board represents an atom and each player represents an electron that has been bumped into the atom's outer unstable
Pollution and Lung Health
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Learners will build a lung model to understand how their lungs and diaphragm work to make them breathe.