Search Results
Showing results (1 to 5 of 5)
Echolocation Lab
National Health MuseumAdd to list DetailsIn this lab, learners experience how dolphins and other echolocating animals use their senses to locate and identify objects without using their sense of sight. To simulate this process, learners...
Underwater Hide and Seek
National Health MuseumAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners experience firsthand how marine animals' adaptive coloration camouflages them from prey. Learners design fish out of red paper and then attempt to locate their fish...
Close, Closer, Closest
National Health MuseumAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners perform an experiment that models a chromatography-like process called electrophoresis, a process used to analyze DNA. Learners examine coffee filter strips, each dotted...
Evolutionstechnik or Selection and Variation in the Egyptian Origami Bird (Avis papyrus)
National Health MuseumAdd to list DetailsIn order to examine the random nature of mutations and natural selection, learners "breed" clutches of Egyptian Origami Birds (Avis papyrus) using random number generators (dice and coins...
Mapping the Homunculus
National Health MuseumAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners will explore how the human brain interprets environmental stimuli. Learners use two point discrimination on the skin to determine the relative number of nerve endings...