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Prepare for a Dock Shop Field Trip
Children's Museum of IndianapolisAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners explore what makes a boat float and sink. They examine and test various objects to determine why objects float or sink. This experience can prepare learners for a science...
Prepare for a Construction Zone Field Trip
Children's Museum of IndianapolisAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners explore work, forces, simple machines, and construction. This lesson guide includes simple ways to demonstrate these principles as well as hands-on activities. For...
Levers at Play
Lunar and Planetary InstituteAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners consider how a simple machine, a lever, turns a small push or pull (a small force) into a larger--or stronger--push or pull (a larger force). Learners then apply this...
From the Internet to Outer Space
National Museum of American HistoryAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners will use Google Sky to observe features of the night sky and share their observations. Learners partake in a "Telescope Treasure Hunt" as they look for...
If You Lived in a Forest
Children's Museum of IndianapolisAdd to list DetailsThis activity encourages learners to focus on the natural environment of the Eastern Woodlands before the arrival of European settlers. Learners use pictures, stories and maps to help them...
All Tangled Up
NOAAAdd to list DetailsIn this activity on page 60, learners examine and simulate wildlife entanglement by experiencing what it might be like to be a marine animal trapped in debris. Learners wrap rubber bands around...
Three Little Pigs
Oregon Museum of Science and IndustryAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, leaners explore building techniques by recreating the story of The Three Little Pigs. They build model houses out of plastic grass, popsicle sticks, and building blocks, and then...
Aesop's Arithmetic
Chicago Children's MuseumAdd to list DetailsIn this activity (located on page 9 of the PDF), learners are introduced to Aesop's fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher." In the story, a clever crow drops pebbles into a pitcher to...
Building Tall
WGBHAdd to list DetailsIn this engineering activity (page 2 of PDF), young learners investigate how a wide base can make a building more stable. Learners use blocks or boxes of different sizes to construct stable towers....
As Straight as a Pole
WGBHAdd to list DetailsIn this engineering activity (page 3 of PDF), young learners investigate how a pole can be made stable by “planting” its base in the ground or adding supports to the base. First, learners observe...