- Anchors Away!
- A Rocky Test
- As Far As I Can Sea
- Bounce
- By All Indications
- Create a Crater
- The Great Diamond Heist
- Fossil Puzzler
- Get Cooking
- Going with the Flow
- How's the Weather?
- Impact!
- It's All Relative
- Keep It Up
- Layers of Earth
- Let's Get Carried Away!
- Look Out Below!
- Motion In The Ocean
- Play Ball
- Sand Shake
- School of Rock
- Shaky Ground
- Smoke on the Water
- Solar System Scale
- Splendid Soil
- Super Soaked Soil
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Warm Colors
- Watching Weather
- Water Cycle
- Weathering Cubes
- What Lies Beneath?
- What Am I?
- Will There Be Enough
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Hands-on Activity
Touchy Subject
Summary
In this activity, blindfolded students will use their sense of touch to organize materials according to texture.
Overview
Topic: Sense of Touch
Real World Science Topics:
Real World Science Topics:
- An exploration of how the sense of touch helps human beings understand and describe the world around them
- An exploration of the range of sensitivity of the human skin
Objective
Students will gain an understanding of the sense of touch and its sensitivity in various parts of the human body.
Activity Difficulty Rating: 2 Each hands-on science activity has been ranked based on difficulty of set up and how difficult they are to perform. The rating scale is from 1 to 5, with 1 being the easiest and 5 being the most complicated.
5-MINUTE REFRESHER
TAKE FIVE
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