Activities
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In this activity, students will explore the structures within a leaf where the process of photosynthesis occurs.
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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 compare two forces of energy on the motion, velocity, and direction of an object.
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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 use shadows to demonstrate that Earth is moving, not the sun.
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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 evaluate water ice balloons to reconstruct recent climate history by sorting different layers of evidence.
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In this activity, students will learn about how human lifestyles cause the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to be released into the air.
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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 use a ramp to launch a car and reach a finish line.
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of the value of using a scale model and the effect of water speed on erosion rate and stream formation.
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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 build a simple solar cooker, make observations and qualitatively describe the melting rate of a piece of chocolate in the cooker.
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In this activity, students will learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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In this activity, students will examine and sketch various trace fossils from an unknown creature and then construct an image of the creature that they believe produced these fossils.
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In this activity, students will learn how waves, wind, water and glaciers all break rock and soil into smaller particles and move them around.
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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 examine the need for seeds to have sunlight in order to grow.
- K–5