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.

 

We will be hosting live lessons over Zoom, click the date and time in the lesson block to link to the Zoom meeting when we are live.

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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

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