Science Across America There are 23 items.
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Design A Park
2 Review(s)Participants are invited to imagine the park of their dreams! In small groups, they place movable pieces on a grid, iterating on their plan together to create a plan for a community park. 7066
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Future Moon: The Footsteps of Explorers
1 Review(s)Learners model how impacts throughout the Moon's history have broken rocks down into a mixture of dust, rocks, and boulders that cover the lunar surface. 2060
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Catch! The World's Oceans
Children get to know each other through an icebreaker activity that introduces the importance of water on Earth. 0
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Team Machine
1 Review(s)This classic “icebreaker” activity challenges participants to create a simple human machine. A group of at least 6 and up to 20 people work together to pass a beanbag in a set pattern as quickly as possible. 2284
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How-to Video Implementation Guide Provides extensive background information, facilitation outline, materials shopping list, extended supporting media suggestions, correlations to national standards, and more. Teacher's Guide Provides classroom connections, key concepts, connections to science standards, and additional resources. -
Low-Tech Water Filter for High-Impact Clean
Participants consider the water features they might enjoy at a community park — a pond, brook, water playground (or “sprayground”), or pool, — and what happens to thewater over time. 0
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Rocket Car Distance Challenge
2 Review(s)Using new and recycled materials, patrons construct rocket cars that use a balloon and straw “rocket” to move. Students will “race” the cars to see which can go the farthest before revising their design and “racing” again. 3060
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Windy City Tower
1 Review(s)Participants learn about lateral forces, strong building design, and wind tunnel testing as they plan out and make a paper tower that meets specific design constraints and withstands as much wind as possible without sliding or toppling over. 1804
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How-to Video Family Take-home Activity A take-home that can be sent with patrons that wish to do STEM activities at home. These at-home activities cover similar topic areas as the associated activity and could be handed out at the conclusion of a program or left on a circulation desk for patrons to take home. -
Build a Roller Coaster
Patrons design a roller coaster track to carry a marble through a course that includes at least 1 loop, 1 hill, and 1 jump, and that drops the marble in a cup at the end of the ride. 0
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Industrious Engineering
Patrons learn about the engineering and design process by constructing take-out boxes, then learn about how to increase the productivity and efficiency of making products without compromising the quality 0
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Build a Moon Habitat
1 Review(s)Astronauts on the Moon must have homes that protect them like no home on Earth would ever need to do. Teams of participants roll sheets of newspaper to create "logs," which are stapled together to frame a "habitat" and "airlock." The structure is covered with a bedsheet and decorated with the NASA logo. 2050
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Strange New Planet
4 Review(s)In this simulation of space exploration, participants plan and carry out five missions to a “planet” and communicate their discoveries to their family or a friend. 26016
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Trip to Mars
4 Review(s)Participants play a game that steps through a human mission to Mars, to learn about the variety of people on the ground supporting missions, and the factors that can affect a mission outcome. 21136
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How-to Video Teacher's Guide Provides classroom connections, key concepts, connections to science standards, and additional resources.