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Cardio Comparisons
Children's Museum Of HoustonAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners discover how their heart rate changes in different situations. Learners measure their baseline heart rates and compare them to their heart rates after completing various...
Breathing Room
Twin Cities Public TelevisionAdd to list DetailsIn this health activity, learners explore breathing, lungs and asthma. Learners test their lung capacity by blowing air into balloons. Learners are also encouraged to determine how the amount of...
Ice Roads: Steiner Trees
Computer Science UnpluggedAdd to list DetailsIn this outdoor activity, learners use pegs (like tent pegs) and string or elastic to simulate drill sites and roads in Northern Canada. Learners are challenged with figuring out how to connect the...
Super Soaker
Twin Cities Public TelevisionAdd to list DetailsIn this activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Bogs), learners will test cups full of potting soil, sand, and sphagnum moss to see which earth material is able to soak up the most...
We all Scream for Ice Cream
NOAAAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners observe how salinity affects the freezing point of water by making and enjoying ice cream. Pairs of learners will combine ingredients in a plastic bag and then add...
What's in a Penny?
The Science HouseAdd to list DetailsIn this chemistry activity, learners use chemical reactions to observe the composition of an alloy. Learners will calculate and record the amount (mass and percentage) of copper and zinc in a penny...
Plankton Feeding
Centers for Ocean Sciences Education ExcellenceAdd to list DetailsThis activity provides a hands-on experience with a scale model, a relatively high viscosity fluid, and feeding behaviors. Learners attempt to capture "food" (a lentil) with a feeding...
Finger Basketball
Community Science Workshop NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners build mini-basketball courts using cardboard and measuring spoons. Use this activity to introduce learners to catapults, forces, and levers. Note: a drill is used in this...
DIY Pasta Rover
Perot Museum of Nature and ScienceAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners design and build a NASA rover using raw pasta and candy with a limited imaginary budget. Similar to engineers at NASA, learners will use keep track of the total cost of...