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3D Tree View PDF   
A bit of cutting and stapling will produce wonderful, little trees that stand up on their own. Decorate the tree for a great winter holiday project, or create several trees of various sizes to make a tabletop scene.
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Anamorphic Art View PDF    |   View Video  
In this unique interdisciplinary activity, students use science, math, and art skills to create an image on a curved grid. The resulting image appears distorted and may be difficult to recognize... until it is viewed with a cylindrical mirror! The image that "magically" appears is just science, math and art all mixed together with a mirror.
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Animal Cells View PDF   
Gain a deeper understanding of the structures and functions found in animal cells by creating a model from repurposed materials.
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Animated Flip Book View PDF    |   View Video  
This fun activity will give students the opportunity to create basic animations that can help them understand how motion pictures and the human eye work.
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Articulated Man View PDF   
The human body is complicated, with amazing ranges of motion. Explore the difficulties in recreating a life-like body by examining action figure toys.
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Balancing Act View PDF   
Balancing an object takes more than just coordination. The distribution of mass in an object determines its center of gravity and its rotational inertia.
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Ball in the Cup View PDF   
Give pre-school and primary-aged children an opportunity to develop their eye-hand coordination with this fun and easily modified toy.
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Beads of Knowledge View PDF   
Students gather a bead at each station in this activity that works particularly well with a field trip or special event where you want students to participate in a variety of learning activities.
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Black Box View PDF   
Students shake, rattle, and roll these "Black Boxes" to try to determine the insides... but no peeking. Ever!!
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Black and White Makes Color View PDF    |   View Video  
Students can easily turn a Compact Disc into an excellent spinning platform. By adding the pattern for a Benham's disc to this set-up, you and your students can explore the interesting effect that happens - the spinning black and white pattern creates an illusion of seeing colors in the spinning disc and reveals an interesting aspect of how our eyes and brain perceive color.
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Bloodless Hematocrit View PDF   
Use "blood" samples of red sugar in a vegetable oil suspension to investigate hematocrit measurement and its significance.
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Blubber Gloves View PDF   
Whales, seals, walruses, and other marine mammals survive and thrive in very harsh, freezing cold environments. In this activity, students discover the insulation properties of several materials by testing them in a bucket of ice water; simulating how marine mammals can survive in arctic conditions, yet not freeze to death.
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Bone Up on the Spine View PDF   
Modeling the spine can help students understand the function of the disks, the flexibility of the back, and the transfer of information along the spinal nerve.
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Born From an Egg View PDF   
In this activity for primary learners, students sort animals into 2 categories: those born from an egg and those not born from an egg.
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Breaking it Down View PDF   
Students explore how organic materials break down and decompose in this lab experiment that investigates materials, environmental factors, and variables.
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Breathe In Breathe Out View PDF   
Each day in your life you breathe in and out approximately 20,000 times, usually without thinking about it. Here is a chance to discover how breathing works.
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Bug Pooter View PDF   
Create a pooter, or "bug vac" to gently collect and study small creepy crawlies.
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Cabbage Patch Indicator View PDF   
Red cabbage juice is amazing! Acids and bases make it change color!
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Cafe Wall Illusion View PDF   
Illusions are wonderful student motivators! When people realize that sometimes they cannot believe their eyes, they often want to know why. It took scientists months of research and many experiments to figure out why this simple pattern of black and white tiles outside a cafe in Bristol looked like a bunch of wedges.
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Capillary Capers View PDF   
Watch water travel "uphill" to provide constant moisture for seed germination.
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