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Exploring the Universe: Space Guess Quest Game
Patrons explore objects in space in an engaging game where they ask yes...
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Exploring Earth: Rising Sea
This hands-on activity demonstrates ways to use topographical mapping...
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Golf Ball Phases and Embroidery Hoop Eclipse
Using a golf ball under a blacklight, patrons explore the dynamics of...
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Seeing the Invisible: Infrared Light Detectors
1 Review(s)Infrared light is all around us, but we can't see it with our own eyes! Participants use digital cameras to discover infrared light sources.
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Let's See Light in a New Way: Diffraction Spectra
Participants look at the "fingerprints" of different light sources using spectroscopes.
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A Light Snack: Cookie Box Spectrometers
Celebrate the contributions of women astronomers and make your own spectrometer using a cookie or cereal box and diffraction grating slides.
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Sun Tracking
Learn how to track the Sun using only a stick! Then, print out Sun clocks and experiment placing them in the correct position.
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Eclipse Chalk Art
1 Review(s)Use a circular template and chalk to create your very own eclipse art!
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Shadow Tracing
Participants create and trace their shadows indoors and on the playground.
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Shifting Shadows
Participants trace shadows of playground equipment, then visit their tracings a few minutes later to discover how they've changed.
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Make a Sundial
Participants explore the relationship between the size and position of shadows and the position of the sun. They make sundials to use outdoors. (Sundial handouts can be found on page 35 and 36 of the PDF.)
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Pocket Solar System
Using a strip of paper, patrons construct a quick scale model of the distances between the objects of our solar system.
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