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Soak It Up: Understanding Amphibian Permeability
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In this activity, learners will discover how the thin layers of amphibians' skin allow water and other chemicals to pass through it.

Cellular Soap Opera
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In this activity, learners create a large film of soap and experiment with what can and cannot pass through it.

Temperature Affects Dissolving
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Learners design their own experiment to compare how well cocoa mix dissolves in cold and hot water. They will see that cocoa mix dissolves much better in hot water. Adult supervision recommended.

What is in the Water?
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In this activity, learners use open inquiry to learn about the process of science as well as gain experience regarding the Law of Conservation of Mass, dissolution, and density.

Exploring Structures: DNA
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In this activity, learners create a necklace of wheat germ DNA. Learners add alcohol to wheat germ so that the DNA clumps together.

Crocodiles
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Learners observe and compare the sizes of three toy “growing” crocodiles made from water-absorbent polymers. One is it its original state, dry, hard, and about 10cm long.

Electroplating
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In this activity, learners electrically plate zinc onto brass objects.

Bury Me Not!
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This activity (page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Bogs) is a full inquiry investigation into decomposition.

Watercolor
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In this activity, learners will use chemistry to create a night sky watercolor painting. They will experiment to learn the effects of mixing crayon, salt, and lemon juice with water color paints.

Stick to It: Adhesion II
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Water sticks to all kinds of things in nature — flowers, leaves, spider webs - and doesn't stick to others, such as a duck's back.

Resistance is Useful
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Learners write or draw with white crayon on white paper. They look and feel to detect their marks on the paper. Then, learners paint over their paper with watercolor paint.

Apples with Appeal
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In this activity, learners investigate why apples turn brown. Learners discover that lemon juice interferes with the reaction that causes the browning.

Exploring Forces: Gravity
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In this nanoscience activity, learners discover that it's easy to pour water out of a regular-sized cup, but not out of a miniature cup.

Seeds: Roots and Shoots
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In this indepth hands-on activity, learners build a structure that allows them to observe the growth of roots and the correlation between root growth and stem extension.

Protein Factory
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In this activity, learners take on the role of various parts of the cell in order to model the process of protein synthesis.

What's in a Penny?
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In this chemistry activity, learners use chemical reactions to observe the composition of an alloy.

Water Ways
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In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners explore surface tension by adding pennies to cups which are "full" of plain water or soapy water.

How Might Elevated CO2 Affect Plants
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In this activity, learners conduct an experiment to investigate the effect of elevated levels on CO2 on plant growth.

Making Naked Eggs: Eggs Without Shells
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This is an activity about acid-base reactions using eggs and vinegar. Learners place eggs inside a container of vinegar and leave to soak overnight.

Breaking the Tension: Surface Tension 1
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Learners explore how the attractive forces between water molecules create surface tension and allow certain objects to float on the surface of water.