Activities
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Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students will learn what causes type I and type II diabetes and investigate what is happening in the body of a person who has diabetes, including the function of the pancreas in insulin production and how insulin allows for glucose to enter cells.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will model the process of heat transfer by convection in Earth's oceans.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will investigate different ways to move a ball.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will discuss and compare plants, animals, and their surroundings in deserts, oceans/ beaches, and rainforests.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will learn about the common physical characteristics of plants.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will practice classifying matter while playing a game.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will explore light travel and how it is redirected with the use of mirrors.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will take on the role of organisms in various environments as they discover the concept of interdependence in ecosystems.
- K–5
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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.
- 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 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.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of the structure of the human eye and analyze and classify optical illusions.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will place foods in different environments and observe the rate at which those foods decompose.
- 6–8
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Students work together to build an algorithm for drawing a pixel picture using coordinate directions and color assignments on graph paper. Then, students follow the algorithms of other groups to create the images on a larger scale with post-it notes.
- 9–12
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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 create a simple model of Earth as a magnet.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students will investigate the prosthetic industry as they explore the design and functionality of artificial limbs.
- 9–12
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In this activity, the teacher will create a large rain maker by pouring water over plastic wrap punched with holes over a foil tin.
- K–5