Activities
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In this activity, students build simple circuits to investigate the conductivity of solutions.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will observe how ice melts on wood and metal blocks, and they will draw conclusions about how heat conducts through different materials.
- 6–8
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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.
- 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 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 experiment with how far sound travels naturally, as compared to how far it travels with satellite amplification.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will test and observe the bouncing properties of different types of balls (softball, basketball, golf ball, playground ball, volleyball, beach ball, ball of paper).
- 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
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will investigate how tasty fruits help some plants survive.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will help solve a "crime" by attempting to match fingerprints from their classmates to the scene of a (fictional) crime.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will analyze different types of soil.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, blindfolded students will use their sense of touch to organize materials according to texture.
- K–5
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In this activity students will examine the relationships between the organisms within an ecosystem and how changes that affect one affect the others.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity students will examine fruits and vegetables in order to figure out which ones are really fruits, and what types of fruits they really are.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will explore the potential dangers of overusing certain antibacterial products such as soaps, shampoos and other wash products.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity students will create there own unique creatures and then make dichotomous keys that will allow their classmates to identify the creatures.
- 6–8
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, blindfolded students will use their sense of touch to organize materials according to texture.
- 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