ARE At Home 

 

Here are activities for all ages that you can easily do at home. Use jelly beans to learn geology or mine for gold in a cookie, our lessons and activities are adaptable for all age groups. Check out our shopping list below and watch the how-to videos to do the lessons at home on your own time.

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We are also allowing teachers or groups to set up distance delivery classroom visits and specialized lessons for them, click below to request a virtual classroom visit.

Shopping List

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Lessons from LEGOs

• Small set of LEGO or other building materials (blocks, etc.)

• Paper and pencil

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Energy from the Sun

• Paper and pencil/other drawing tools

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Jelly Belly Geology​

• Bag of different colored jelly beans (ARE can provide)

• Worksheet

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Design a Derrick

• Large marshmallows (around 10 or more per child/group)

• Uncooked spaghetti (15 or more per child/group, ARE can provide)

• Paper plates

• Poker chips or some other 'weight' you have a lo of to test strength

• Worksheet

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Viscosity​

• Small serving of:

  • Chocolate milk

  • Chocolate syrup

  • Chocolate bar

• Dixie cups (at least enough for each child)

• 3 plates

• Clear straws, cut in half (one half per child)

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Mine-A-Cookie​

• Cookie (1 per child/group)

• Toothpicks (2 or more per child/group)

• Paper plates

• Worksheet

• Optional:

  • Frosting

  • Sprinkles

  • Forks

  • Spoons

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Electricity Scavenger Hunt​

• Paper

• Writing utensils

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Mineral Scavenger Hunt​

• Writing utensils

• Worksheet

 

Renew A Bean

• 2 items of similar size and shape, but two different colors

  • 100 of one of the items

  • 11 of the other

  • For example, 100 black beans and 11 black eyed peas

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