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Children and adults using Frankenstein Dough Creature activity - costumed adults dressed as Mary Shelley and Frankenstein monster

Frankenstein200 Digital Kit

Digital download of all public engagement and professional development files in the Frankenstein 200 kit designed to encourage creativity and reflection about responsible innovation, developed in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
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Online Workshop Recording: Learn More About the 2018 Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkit

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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Online Workshop Recording: The Science Behind the Earth and Space Toolkit: The Changing Earth

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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Online Workshop Recording: The Science Behind the Earth and Space Toolkit: Astrobiology - Searching for Life

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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Online Workshop Recording: What's in Your Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkit 2017

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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A learner and facilitator place a heavy ball in the middle of a fabric stretched well

Exploring the Universe: Orbiting Objects

In this activity, learners experiment with different sized and weighted balls on a stretchy fabric gravity well.
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a learner creates and draws an extremophile that could live on another planet

Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life

In this activity, learners imagine extreme environments that may exist beyond Earth and create living things that could thrive there.
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two learners and a facilitator examine three ice orbs

Exploring the Universe: Ice Orbs

In this activity, learners investigate a sphere of ice and objects hidden inside as a model for icy worlds in our solar system.
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Solar Eclipse ativity with young museum visitors at 2017 Science Museum of Minnesota Earth Day event

Exploring the Solar System: Solar Eclipse

In this activity, learners investigate the positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon to create shadows and learn about solar eclipses.
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Big Sun Small Moon activity with children explores the concept of apparent size and allows visitors to experience this phenomena using familiar objects - a tennis ball and a beach ball

Exploring the Solar System: Big Sun, Small Moon

In this activity, learners explore the concept of the apparent size by looking at models of celestial bodies at different distances.
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