Activities
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Students will use provided materials to develop a structure that will withstand movement in Earth.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will excavate a box containing several layers of sediment.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will design a bridge or a building and observe how it performs in a simulated earthquake.
- K–5
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In this activity, students drop rubber balls in order to observe and measure the effects of elasticity.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will construct interactive lunar cycle models to illustrate the phases of the Moon in 3 dimensions.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will create their own windmills and test them against the models made by their classmates.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will make sound three ways: by blowing across the top of a bottle, tapping a glass, and running a finger around the rim of a glass.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will use paper chromatography to separate the colors in the dyes used to color candies.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will build a Cartesian diver and discover how compression and changes in density cause the diver to mysteriously move up and down.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will test the effectiveness of different parachute designs.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will design their own miniature golf hole and then determine the path along which a ball would travel to score a "hole-in-one."
- K–5
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In this activity, students will use a laser pointer and flat mirrors to explore the law of reflection.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will use a variety of materials to attempt to clean up a simulated oil spill.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will design a procedure for separating five types of recyclable materials based on their physical properties.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of performing a controlled experiment and how different variables affect the distance travelled by a stomp rocket.
- K–5
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will learn that plants and animals have common needs.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will investigate the variety of ways plants can disperse their seeds, or the fruits containing the seeds.
- K–5
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In this activity, students learn that plants acquire their material for growth chiefly from air and water rather than from soil.
- K–5