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In this activity, learners will make homemade jello that glows under a blacklight. They will learn about quinine, an ingredient in tonic water that is fluorescent.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this Energy and Environment activity (page 9 of the PDF), learners calculate the mass of a piece of gum, compare it to the mass of the gum's packaging, and then create a bar graph of the results.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners will create their own museum collection using their favorite toys, drawings, or collection.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this combination chemistry and physics activity, learners explore water absorption in dried beans or peas and learn how this affects their physical properties.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners will work together to create a program to navigate a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) through an obstacle course.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This is an online game recreating the longest ever (at that point in time) freefall jump by Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger.

free Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will observe a physical change.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (page 5 of the PDF), learners will create a food web and explore food sources for different organisms. They will identify relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this health activity (page 7 of the PDF), learners will discover the importance of handwashing as a factor in reducing the spread of pathogens.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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This is an activity about the behavior of light. Using simple, everyday objects, learners will discover that light moves in straight lines until acted upon by another object.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes