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Supertasters
This activity is a good demonstration of genetic differences (about 70% of those tested should be able to taste it).
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Fish in a Bowl
This activity discusses Optics/Perception and teaches about the persistence of vision.
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The Brain
This is a lecture based lesson on the brain - the basics on the brain, how drugs effect the brain, how nutrition effects the brain and the importance of looking after our brains. Following the lecture, a hands on "egg drop challenge" can be done with the students, emphasizing the importance of wearing helmets.
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Smartphone Microscope Stand
Online instructions for building inexpensive microscope stands that can be used with smartphones to take pictures of magnified objects.
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Insect Predation Game
Students learn about interspecific competition and population and ecosystem dynamics through a fun and dynamic game. They are introduced to adaptations, prey and predator relationships, food chains and evolution.
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Create your own bones!
In this activity, we will use everyday materials to make our own bones!
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Eggs-periment!
This activity will show us what vinegar does to calcium carbonate, a molecule that makes up sea shells, corals, and parts of your bones!
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Green Thumb - Changing the Colour of Plants!
What is your favorite colour? How do plants and flowers have so many different colours? What if you could change their colour? In this activity, you will explore the properties and structure of plants and how to change their color.
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Hole in Hand and Other Eye Related Tricks
To demonstrate how two eyes interact with each other, and how strange things can happen when we alter the conditions in which we see the world.
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Magic of Density
Students will explore density by modifying the density of liquids, observing the density of different solids, and observing the density differences between objects that occupy the same volume by comparing varieties of pop. Mass over volume is the message!
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Buzzing Bees - Exploring Pollination
This is a fun, interactive activity to help students understand the process of cross-pollination!
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Nervous System - Neuron Highway
Students will send a ''message'', a piece of paper attached to an unmodified paper clip, along a string to demonstrate how the nervous system work.
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Circulation
In this activity, participants will explore the functioning of their circulatory system and how different activity levels impact it!
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Butterfly Life Cycle - Preschool/Kindergarten
This activity introduces pre-school / kindergarten aged students to the different steps in the life cycle of a butterfly from egg, to caterpillar, to chrystalis / cocoon, to butterfly. The students also get to create and take home a butterfly or caterpillar craft.
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Cell City
This activity explores the structures of plant and animal cells via a dramatic skit, a matching activity, and creating a 3D model.