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![A group of learners creating a scribblebot using a pool noodle, small electric motor and thin markers](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/f200_pic_1.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=gIg0gzFW)
Scribble Bot
In this activity, learners create a toy bot with a surprising ability: it scribbles on a sheet of paper.
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![Monster Mask completed mask with smiling visitor](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/monstermask.png?h=3b6f6cba&itok=3rspZwyP)
Monster Mask
In this activity, learners create a mask with a special feature: an LED bulb that lights up.
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![Frankentoy activity with participants engaged](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-03/Frankenstein200_Photo%209-L.jpg?h=d0ec9e1d&itok=ED9gax4H)
Frankentoy
In this activity, learners make a “creature” by mixing and matching different parts of toys.
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![Lit up dough creature holding flower with squishy circuit battery pack and wires](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/2021-03/Dough7.jpg?itok=D4-HPOCw)
Dough Creature
In this activity, learners experiment with conductive dough to make a creature and use it to create an electrical circuit.
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![Mary Shelly, her monster, and visitors using the battery stack activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/2021-03/Frankenstein200_Photo%202.jpg?itok=pWSDfimG)
Battery Stack
In this activity, learners investigate how to make a voltaic pile, the first kind of battery.
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![Two automata on a table - one monster and one leaf being manipulated but a visitor](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/automata.png?itok=9dBKVOCe)
Automata
In this activity, learners build an automaton, a moving mechanical device that imitates the movement of a human, animal, or other living thing.
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![Blue logo for online workshop recordings](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/2020-12/online-workshop-recordings-logo.jpg?itok=9FGQyoMy)
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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![a learner creates and draws an extremophile that could live on another planet](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/ex3-L.jpg?h=a31ffb6c&itok=kaOWQ5zU)
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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![Facilitator and learners discuss their drawn super organism](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-01/20160321_1239.jpg?h=7ea25c0c&itok=SDs6sXmB)
Building with Biology: Super Organisms
In this activity focused on synthetic biology, learners use the engineering design process to design a single-celled organism to clean up an oil spill to learn more about synthetic biology.
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![An artistic nano image from the nano art vizualization report](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/5911/art_nano_image.jpg?h=ccdf4b42&itok=VYjQxQgK)
Art Nano: Artists Visualizing the Nanoscale
Summary of approaches for visualizing the nanoscale through a series of artistic ommissions, installations, and residencies in 2006.
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