Activities
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In this activity, students will construct color wheels and spin them to see that light colors combine to form new colors.
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In this activity, students build simple circuits to investigate the conductivity of solutions.
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In this activity, students will test the effectiveness of different parachute designs.
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of how a simple hovercraft uses the forces of motion to move.
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In this activity, students will use a ramp to launch a car and reach a finish line.
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In this activity teams design, build, and test paper helicopters to observe a relationship between blade surface area and descent rate.
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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."
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In this activity, students will create their own insulating "ice chambers" and then test them against the models made by their classmates.
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of how sound waves travel through different media by building a sound transmission device.
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In this activity, students will create a simple electromagnet using a nail, a battery, and copper wire.
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In this activity, students will compare two forces of energy on the motion, velocity, and direction of an object.
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of the engineering design process by designing and observing different containers that slow down the process of heat transfer.
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In this activity, students will use a laser pointer and flat mirrors to explore the law of reflection.
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of magnetic fields and magnetic forces.
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In this activity, students carefully add drops of liquids to the surface of a penny to help them understand the concept of surface tension.
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In this activity, students will use a variety of materials to attempt to clean up a simulated oil spill.
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In this activity, students will examine the behavior of different types of solids when they are dissolved in water and explain those behaviors by examining the properties of the solids.
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In this activity, students will create a simple model of Earth as a magnet.
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