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Hovering on a Cushion of Air
Patrons construct CD hovercrafts and investigate Newton's laws of...
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Exploring the Colors of Mars
Patrons examine satellite and rover images to learn about the various...
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Tangram Rocket
Participants play a game together to create a large rocket made from...
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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
1 Review(s)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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Exploring the Universe: Observe the Sun
Participants practice safely viewing the sun by constructing a solarscope!
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