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Catching a Whisper from Space
Patrons simulate how NASA communicates with spacecraft by playing a kinesthetic game with sounds and umbrellas 0
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Planetary Poetry
This STEAM activity provides guidance and examples for using NASA missions and discoveries to get patrons writing poems to share their knowledge of or inspiration about these topics 0
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Build a Satellite
Patrons learn about the use and structure of satellites and use the engineering design process to design, build, test, and improve a model satellite 0
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How Do We See Dark Matter?
Patrons learn about dark matter, a hypothetical substance that does not reflect or absorb light the way normal matter does, by observing two containers to identify differences in content 0
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Tangram Rocket
Participants play a game together to create a large rocket made from geometric shapes, or tangrams 0
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Exploring the Colors of Mars
Patrons examine satellite and rover images to learn about the various surface features that cause the different colors of Mars, then create an art concept of the planet 0
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Jiggly Jupiter
In this hands-on STEAM activity, patrons build edible models of Jupiter and Earth to compare their sizes and layers. 0
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From Your Birthday to Jupiter's
Patrons explore their origins, and the origin of our solar system, through three stories. First, they model their own lifetimes by tying knots in lengths of yarn to represent key events in their pasts. Then, they act out a cultural story of our origins, and finally they explore Jupiter’s timeline from today back to its "birthday." 0
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Heavyweight Champion: Jupiter!
In this activity, patrons explore the concept of gravity and its relationship to weight by weighing themselves on scales modified to represent how much they would weigh on other worlds. 0
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Edible Rocks
Analyze and discuss the content of candy bars using the same terminology geologists use to study rocks from space. 0
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Infant Moon: Moon Mix!
Investigate the Moon’s infancy by modeling how different materials floated and sank in the early molten Moon. 0
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Spin! Day and Night
In this activity, patrons use their bodies to model how Earth's spin - rotation - creates the cycles of day and night 0
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