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Screaming String Thing
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In this simple and fun activity, learners discover the relationship between vibration and sound by making a squeaky toy instrument out of simple household materials.
Arrows
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In this activity, learners surprise their eyes with an optical illusion involving arrows made out of pipe cleaners.
Thaumatrope
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In this activity, learners make an optical illusion toy from the 1800s to explore persistence of vision.
Headphone Helper
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In this design challenge activity, learners add headphones to a previously built instrument (see "Build a Band" activity) to make it easier to hear.
String Thing
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String Thing is an interactive online game in which learners change a virtual string's tension, length, and gauge to create different musical pitches.
Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
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In this activity, learners investigate how geometry plays a role in perspective.
Seeing Is Believing
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This activity is designed to accompany the PBS documentary about African-American chemist "Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius." Learners look through two cups with small holes in them to simulate what it'
Periscope
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In this optics activity, learners build a spy tool to secretly view things over walls or around corners.
Throw Your Weight Around
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During this activity, learners take part in a variety of tasks which involve moving and balancing different body parts.
Size It Up
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In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.
Afterimage
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In this optics activity, learners investigate afterimages.