Activities
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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
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will construct a model ear to learn how different materials transmit sound.
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Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will investigate how camouflage can help an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
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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."
- 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
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will learn about the importance of balance in an ecosystem.
- K–5
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In this activity, students learn that plants acquire their material for growth chiefly from air and water rather than from soil.
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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 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.
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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 excavate a box containing several layers of sediment.
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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.
- K–5
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In this activity, students will design a bridge or a building and observe how it performs in a simulated earthquake.
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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.
- K–5
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will participate in a leaf scavenger hunt and assemble a basic leaf collection.
- K–5