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Keep the Heat
In this module, participants explore how well various fabrics help a can of hot water retain heat, learning about thermal transport.
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Map and Compass Scavenger Hunt
This economical and easy-to-prepare activity combines learning to use a map and compass in a scavenger hunt format. It can be a standalone indoor activity, or an introduction to the fundamentals of orienteering.
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Whodunit — Cracking the Case with Science
Challenge your students’ powers of deduction to determine which of four suspects committed several different burglaries. This module is low cost, easy to run, and versatile for a range of ages and durations.
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Epidemic — What Goes Around Comes Around
This activity helps students understand how human-to-human contact can spread pathogens, and how vaccines limit that spread.
Logistics
The Bell Game — Fun in 15 Minutes
What can you do when your planned activity ends 15 minutes before your meeting ends? A bell quiz of relevant questions is a great option to plug that hole.
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Archimedes’ Principle — Eureka!
In this module, students will learn about density and its measurement via water displacement. They will employ this knowledge to determine the identities of mystery metals, sleuth out whether the jewelry is real, and more!
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DNA Discovery
Most children have heard about DNA, whether in terms of police detective work, discovering one’s ancestry, fighting cancer and other diseases, or most recently in the new highly effective mRNA vaccines. This module provides even young students the information to better understand what DNA is, and how it is essential to all life.
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Amino Acids and Proteins — The Building Blocks of Life
This module introduces students to proteins, crucial to all life and life processes, and the amino acids from which they are made.
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Mechanical Wind Turbines for Lifting Weights — Two-Session Format
This post details how to run the two-session version of the mechanics-focused variant of the Wind Turbine module. For the one-session version , as well as the electrical variants, see the Overview Post.
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Mechanical Wind Turbines for Lifting Weights — One-Session Format
This post details how to run the one-session version of the mechanics-focused variant of the Wind Turbine module. For the two-session version , as well as the electrical variants, see the Overview Post.