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Science Across America: Scientific Method Road Trip
In this activity, patrons explore the scientific method and are invited...
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Adaptable Aliens
NASA is searching for life on other oceans worlds! In this activity,...
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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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Pinhole Viewer: Cereal Box Version
2 Review(s)Use a cereal box and other common materials to create a safe way to view the Sun. 3752
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Pinhole Projector: Shipping Box Version
Use a long box or tube and other common materials to create a safe way to view the Sun. 0
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Why Do Eclipses Happen? (Yardstick Eclipse...
3 Review(s)Using simple materials, participants explore the vast distance between the Earth and Moon and model how solar and lunar eclipses happen. 9600
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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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Dunking the Planets
Participants place scale models of the planets, represented by fruit and other foods, in water to determine their density. 0
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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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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. 890
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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. 0
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