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How can kids use math to unlock the secrets of science? Use these CYBERCHASE Project Starters to fill a weekend afternoon or help your child choose a fun, math-based science project for school.
Check out the 4 different groups below:
How Things Work |
Measuring Up |
Making Predictions |
Puzzling Patterns
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How Things Work
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Project Starter #1: Weather Bugs
Kids explore the link between temperature and a cricket's chirps while practicing measurement, collecting data, and learning about insects.
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Project Starter #2: Toothpick Towers
Kids discover the properties of triangles that engineers use to build bridges, skyscrapers and other strong structures. Whether building on a tabletop or in the real world, geometry's important!
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Project Starter #3: Gearing Up
Gears offer fascinating opportunities for science and math explorations while helping kids discover how things work. Kids use proportional thinking to predict how different size gears behave.
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Project Starter #4: Nature's Designs
Kids explore patterns in nature they can adapt and use to design something useful.
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Project Starter #5: A-Maze-ing Bounces
Things that bounce follow a simple mathematical rule that kids can use to make light shine around corners.
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Measuring Up
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Project Starter #6: How Much Can it Hold?
Have you ever been tricked into thinking a container holds more - or less - than it actually does? Kids explore the connection between a container's shape and how much it holds.
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Project Starter #7: How High? How Far?
Is there a relationship between how tall you are and how far you can jump? Kids design an experiment and use measurement to find out.
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Project Starter #8: What's Your Angle?
Kids investigate how holding the hose at different angles can affect the distance water squirts - a great Pick a Project for a summer afternoon!
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Project Starter #9: Built For Speed
Do different kinds of shoes help kids run faster? Kids measure time and distance to figure out speed.
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Pick a Pattern #10: Fill 'Er Up!
How many teaspoons in a tablespoon? How many tablespoons in a cup? In this project, kids figure out measurement relationships and use what they know to measure a large volume of water.
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Making Predictions
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Project Starter #11: Changing Shadows
How do the lengths of shadows change throughout the day? Kids practice measuring and recording data to make a graph that tells the story.
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Project Starter #12: Tell Me a Story
Graphs are powerful story tellers. In this creative project, kids interpret change in the slope of the line to write their own story behind what the graph shows.
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Project Starter #13: Compared to What?
How much time do kids spend doing different activities during the day? Kids design a research project and make a graph to share what they find out.
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Project Starter #14: Favorite Snacks
Kids create a survey that they use to collect information and then present it in an organized way.
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Project Starter #15: Good Guess!
Are there differences in how girls and boys make estimates? Kids craft an investigation to find out.
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Puzzling Patterns
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Project Starter #16: Mirror Image
This project challenges kids to design a way to find out just how symmetrical human faces really are.
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Project Starter #17: Double Trouble
What's the big deal about doubling? Kids make a model using rice and a checkerboard to find out.
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Project Starter #18: Two Tails Long
Using a pet, kids make measurements to discover the proportional relationships between different body parts.
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Project Starter #19: Going to School
How can you use data to predict the future? In this Pick a Project kids use school attendance data to predict how the number of kids at school will change from day to day.
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Project Starter #20: Boop Boop Dee Boop
Kids test their friends to see if there is a relationship between rhythmic patterns and how well people can remember them.
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