Team MachineEstablish a pattern1. Form a circle.2. Say your name.3. Toss the beanbag to someone across from you
(not next to you). Remember that person’s name.
4. Keep going until each person has caught the beanbag.
Keep the same order – but go even faster!
THINKHow can you decrease your time?
BUILD, TEST, and DO IT AGAIN!
1. Pass the beanbag around the circle again — as quickly as possible!
2. Say the name of the person who will catch the beanbag each time you pass it.
3. Try to “beat” your shortest recorded time
Hints: You may move around. You may stand or sit.
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Design a Park• Pond• Tennis and/or Basketball
Courts• Dog Park• Swimming Pool• Stream and Footbridge• Community Garden• Picnic Area• Playground• Skate Park
• Baseball Diamond• Basketball Court• Water Playground• Open Space• Boat Rental Shop, Boat Slip,
and Pond• Wetland• Ice Cream Shop
Design a Park
THINK• Place different park features on the
grid to create a map of your park!
• 10 or fewer park features OR keep your total under 250 points• Everything must fit on the grid!• Your park must include restrooms.• Connect your park’s features with lighted trails/bike paths (yarn
and yellow beads)
Talk
Draw
WriteExplore
Costs10 Pond -1 Wind Turbine 15 Ball Courts (such as for
basketball or tennis)-30 Boat Rental Shop, Boat
Slip, and Pond15 Dog Park -30 Wetland20 Water Playground -85 Open Space30 Swimming Pool -300 Ice Cream Shop30 Stream and Footbridge30 Trail/Bike Paths50 Community Garden75 Picnic Area90 Restrooms and Drinking
Fountains150 Playground215 Skate Park250 Baseball Diamond200 Parking Lot
Savings
Levers at PlayHow can the bear and otter fix their predicament on the seesaw (teeter-totter)?
CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay
THINK and BUILD1. Pick the materials you think would be best for
building a seesaw.2. Together, plan how you will use the materials to build
the seesaw.
BUILD and TEST3. Follow your plan to create your model seesaw.
DO IT AGAIN!Modify your design — but change only one thing at a time!
Blades
Tower
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
Credit: Lynne Kirton [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)],
via Wikimedia Commons
Wind Turbine Tech ChallengeBUILD and TEST1.Push the four toothpicks into Play-Doh2.Put a small scrap of paper at the bottom
of the toothpicks
3. Stick four Post-it notes to one end of the straw
4. Slide the straw over the toothpicks. 5. Use a second straw to gently blow across the blades.
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Image Sorting• Sort the images on your
tables in a way that makes sense to your group
Activity guide and cards:greatballsoffireexhibit.org
One solution – sort by size:
1.Lions2.Space Shuttle3.Asteroid Ida4.Moon5.Mars6.Earth
7. Jupiter8. Sun9. Solar System10.Galaxy11.Cluster of
Galaxies
Another solution – sort by distance:1.Eagle2.Jet3.Aurora4.Hubble Space
Telescope5.Moon6.Sun
7. 4 Vesta8. Saturn9. Kuiper Belt10. Orion Constellation
and Nebula11. Andromeda Galaxy12. Hubble Deep Field
View
Balloon Rockets
Trip to Mars game
Credits: NASA/Bill IngallsCredit: NASA
Credits: NASA/Team LavaHive