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Space Rock Sherlock
Participants become detectives as they use scientific instruments and...
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Making a Gas You Can See
1 Review(s)In this short demo/activity, a balloon with baking soda in it is stretched over the mouth of a flask or bottle containing vinegar. 852
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Wind, Water or Crater Impacts?
Patrons model the effects of wind, water, and impacts on a planetary surface using sand. They will compare the surface features they modeled with images of planetary surfaces to see if they can determine which process caused the features in the images. 0
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Mars Match Game
Patrons view images of Earth and Mars to compare features, just like a scientist (planetary geologist) would. After matching pairs of Earth features with Mars analogues, they discuss why they matched the pairs together. 0
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Battling for Oxygen
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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Cloudscape
Using common craft materials, participants construct a sky scence with trees and buildings as reference points on the ground and cloud types ordered by altitude in the sky. 0
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Exploring Earth: Investigating Clouds
1 Review(s)In this hands-on activity, participants use isopropyl alcohol and other household materials to create a cloud in a bottle and explore it with laser light. Materials are available in English and Spanish. 996
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Cloud Teller
3 Review(s)Based on the popular fortune-telling game, this printable interactive craft and game familiarizes learners with cloud vocabulary and varying degrees of cloud cover. This activity could be printed and left for visitors to do on their own or to take with them. 5331
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SciGirls Cloud Clues Activity
This hands-on learning activity explores designing an experiment to categorize the opacity of different materials, extending the concept to real life and how the differing opacity of clouds can effect surface temperature. 0
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Estimating Cloud Cover
1 Review(s)Participants use their estimation and math skills to simulate a clear, isolated, scattered, broken, or overcast sky using blue construction paper and torn white paper shapes. Participants try to accurately guess the percentage of cloud cover for each other's simulations. 1493
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Art and the Cosmic Connection
3 Review(s)Using NASA imagery, participants use images as inspiration for artwork while learning about geology of planetary bodies and moons 8817
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Living in a Bubble: Play with Magnets and Compasses
Use a bar magnet to make a model of Earth's magnetic field and sketch its shape! 0
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Neato-Magneto Planets
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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