Activities
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In this activity, students will investigate how robots work including robotic parts and explain how energy is transferred to make different parts move.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
- K–5
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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.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of how a simple hovercraft uses the forces of motion to move.
- K–5
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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.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will use a ramp to launch a car and reach a finish line.
- K–5
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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.
- K–5
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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.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will investigate factors that influence the temperature of an isolated system and relate this to average kinetic energy and thermodynamic properties.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will make their own weather station.
- 6–8
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In this lesson, students will work in teams to create a structure that will withstand simulated hurricane force winds
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will evaluate water ice balloons to reconstruct recent climate history by sorting different layers of evidence.
- K–5
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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.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will use shadows to demonstrate that Earth is moving, not the sun.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will produce different chemical reactions with yeast.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will create a simple electromagnet using a nail, a battery, and copper wire.
- 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 compare two forces of energy on the motion, velocity, and direction of an object.
- K–5