Children use “eruptions” of baking soda and vinegar to explore how volcanos grow, how later lava flows overlap earlier ones, and how earlier flows influence the paths of subsequent flows. 1177
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Students view a strange new planet in our Milky Way Galaxy to determine what it is like. 0
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Patrons review the Hippocratic Oath, and decide if it still stands up in modern times. 0
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Patrons create rocky planets out of play dough, and then learn about distances in our Solar System by placing them the correct distance apart. 1963
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Create an earthquake simulator using a cardboard shoebox, marbles, and rubber bands. Children and tweens can build structures out of toothpicks and marshmallows, and use the earthquake simulator to test the structures. 1404
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This simple and engaging activity explains nuclear fusion and how radiation is generated by stars, using marshmallows as a model. 1455
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Tweens use oxygen and ozone models -- constructed from gumdroms and toothpicks -- to show the dynamic interactions of Earth's protective ozone layer, the sun's UV radiation, and harmful human-made CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). 0
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Participants place scale models of the planets, represented by fruit and other foods, in water to determine their density. 0
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Participants study magnetic fields at four separate stations: examining magnetic fields generated by everyday items, mapping out a magnetic field using a compass, creating models of Earth's and Jupiter's magnetic fields, and observing aurora produced by magnetic fields on both planets. 0
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Patrons shrink the scale of the vast solar system to the size of their neighborhood. They then compare the relative sizes of scale models of the planets, two dwarf planets, and a comet as represented by fruits and other foods. 0
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Using a strip of paper, patrons construct a quick scale model of the distances between the objects of our solar system. 2007
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Participants learn the importance of concise and explicit language that must be used in computer programming by instructing each other on how to recreate a drawing 0
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