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In this activity, students will research ancient organisms and create a timeline showing when they appeared on Earth.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will gain an understanding of performing a controlled experiment and how different variables affect the distance travelled by a stomp rocket.
- K–5
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will make their own weather station.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students construct a spectroscope and use it to observe the spectra of various sources of light.
- 6–8
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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 observe how ice melts on wood and metal blocks, and they will draw conclusions about how heat conducts through different materials.
- 6–8
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
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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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In this activity, students will produce different chemical reactions with yeast.
- 6–8
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will explore DNA as a code for biological traits and extract samples of DNA from the interior of living cells.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will model the weathering of rocks by shaking sugar cubes in a container.
- K–5
- 6–8
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Students will gain an understanding of the comparative size of the objects in our Solar System and the great distances between them.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students use simple materials to produce and observe cloud formation.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students explore the effects of physical and chemical weathering on various types of rocks.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will model the process of heat transfer by convection in Earth's oceans.
- 6–8
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students create an acid-based indicator using red cabbage extract.
- 6–8
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Students will gain an understanding of rock types and their different responses to physical and chemical weathering.
- 6–8