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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.

Electrolysis
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Using electrolysis, learners produce hydrogen gas and oxygen gas from water molecules in a solution.

Trebuchet Toss
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In this activity, learners explore trebuchet design. Teams of learners construct trebuchets from everyday materials.

Cabbage Juice Indicator: Test the pH of household products
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Learners make their own acid-base indicator from red cabbage. They use this indicator to test substances around the house.

Shrinkers: Cook up some plastic!
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In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners (with adult help and supervision) investigate how heat affects polystyrene plastic.

Vestibular-Ocular Reflex
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In this activity, learners will perform various investigations to understand the vestibular-ocular reflex and learn about the importance of visual cues in maintaining balance.

In Proportion
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Through this nutrition activity (page 5 of the PDF), learners will understand—and probably be surprised by—how big serving sizes of various foods should be.

Gassy Lava Lamp
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In this activity, learners use oil, water, food coloring and antacid tablets to create a bubbling lava lamp. Use this activity to introduce concepts related to density, hydrophobicity vs.

Choose Your Ooze
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During this activity, learners will make different versions of "ooze" using varied proportions of detergent and glue.

Miscibility
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Learners observe a bottle containing water and oil. They are invited to pick up the bottle and mix the contents together.

What Do You Know About Microbes?
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This is a series of quick activities/demos and pre-assessment tools that evaluate learners' current understanding of microbes and introduce them to basic information about microbes.

The Parachuting Egg
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In this activity, learners work in groups to design a parachute out of household items that keeps an egg secure when dropped from a certain height.

Potato Power
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Learners combine hydrogen peroxide with three different forms of potato: raw chunks, ground chunks, and boiled chunks.

Energy Sources
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In this activity about the relationship between food and energy (page 5 of PDF), learners conduct an experiment to compare how much energy is released as heat from two different foods.

Pollution Diffusion
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Learners design their own experiment to investigate how pollution diffuses through ground material.

Currently Working
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Learners test solutions of water, sugar, salt, and hydrochloric acid for electrical conductivity. They immerse leads from a lighting device (a battery pack connected to an LED) into each solution.

Milli's Super Sorting Challenge
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In this activity, learners separate materials based on their special properties to mimic the way recyclables are sorted at recycling centers.

How is Coastal Temperature Influenced by the Great Lakes and the Ocean?
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In this two-part lesson, learners discover how large bodies of water can serve as a heat source or sink at different times and how proximity to water moderates climate along the coast.

Balloon Flinker
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In this activity, learners make a helium balloon "flink"--neither float away nor sink to the ground. Use this activity to introduce physics concepts related to gravity, density, and weight.

Column Chromatography
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In this activity, learners separate the components of Gatorade using a home-made affinity column.