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Cleaning with Dirt
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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.
Dinosaur Dig
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This is an activity about dinosaurs, fossils, and the work of paleontologists. Learners use hand tools (paint brushes, scoops, and sifters) to unearth fossil specimens in tubs of birdseed.
Choose Your Ooze
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During this activity, learners will make different versions of "ooze" using varied proportions of detergent and glue.
Pollution Diffusion
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Learners design their own experiment to investigate how pollution diffuses through ground material.
Lost Labels
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In this experiment, learners will conduct chemical and physical tests to identify mystery substances.
Tie Dye Painting
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This is an activity exploring color and color mixing.
Busted by Biology
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In this two-part activity, learners will extract their own DNA from their cheek cells and learn how DNA is analyzed and used to solve crimes.
Three Little Pigs
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In this activity, leaners explore building techniques by recreating the story of The Three Little Pigs.
A Matter of Splatter
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In this math-based activity, learners will experiment to find how height and angle affect spatter and then use this knowledge to solve a crime.
Of Cabbages and Kings
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This lesson gives full instructions for making cabbage juice indicator, a procedure sheet for learners to record observations as they use the indicator to test materials, and extension activities to d
Matter of Degree
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In two separate bags, learners mix water with Epsom salts and detergent.
Rhythm Painting
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In this activity, early learners create paintings by making music and rhythm. Learners place paper in cans, add paint-soaked beans (or pebbles) and put the tops on.
Heavy or Light
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In this activity, learners explore a scale by comparing objects, which look similar but have different weights. Learners predict and then measure the weights of various objects using a scale.
Density Rainbow
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In this activity, learners mix several sugar solutions to investigate the property of density. Each sugar solution has a different density and color of the rainbow.
Dinosaur Footprints & Fossils
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In this activity, early learners simulate fossil prints in play dough or clay.
Mystery of the Disappearing Cottonwoods
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Learners will explore the scientific mystery behind a disappearing group of trees by examining data and attempting to explain the decline.