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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.
For those looking for more interaction and instruction we will be hosting live lessons over Zoom, dates and times for those lessons will be listed below and on our Facebook page. We are also allowing teachers or groups to set up virtual classroom visits and specialized lessons for them, click below to request a virtual classroom visit.
Parents: Please watch the videos ahead of the Zoom meetings to help your student prepare for the lesson
Oil Leasing Game
Participate in an oil lease sale, where you will have the opportunity to live-bid on land. If you win your land, drill into it and see how much oil is there! If you find oil, calculate how much money you made!!
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Solar Energy
Learn about how we harness the suns energy and participate in a scientific experiment and make a hypothesis about solar radiation and heat!
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Mineral & Electricity Scavenger Hunts
Mineral Hunt
Worksheet (no worksheet for Electricity)
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Wind Energy
Learn about the invisible force of Wind. Build your own wind blade/turbine!
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Energy Sources in AK & Cash Cab
Come play our cash cab games and find out where energy is found and used in our state.
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Virtual Science Fair
Due: Project topic, scientific question, hypothesis and timeline
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Lessons from LEGOs (Grades 4 - 8)
No worksheet needed
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Video Coming Soon
Our Alaska Online Curriculum Intro (Grades 6 - 12)
Tune in to watch a short demo of how to access and navigate our NEW online curriculum. You will then explore Alaska’s mineral and energy resources by filling out a scavenger hunt on your own.
Live Zoom Virtual Teaching
Worksheet
Jelly Belly Geology
Worksheet
Watch the Recorded Zoom Virtual Teaching
Shopping List
Lessons from LEGOs
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Small set of LEGO or other building materials (blocks, etc.)
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Paper and pencil
Energy from the Sun
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Paper and pencil/other drawing tools
Jelly Belly Geology
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Bag of different colored jelly beans (ARE can provide)
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Worksheet
Design a Derrick
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Large marshmallows (around 10 or more per child/group)
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Uncooked spaghetti (15 or more per child/group, ARE can provide)
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Paper plates
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Poker chips or some other 'weight' you have a lo of to test strength
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Worksheet
Viscosity
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Small serving of:
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Chocolate milk
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Chocolate syrup
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Chocolate bar
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Dixie cups (at least enough for each child)
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3 plates
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Clear straws, cut in half (one half per child)
Mine-A-Cookie
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Cookie (1 per child/group)
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Toothpicks (2 or more per child/group)
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Paper plates
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Worksheet
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Optional:
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Frosting
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Sprinkles
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Forks
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Spoons
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Electricity Scavenger Hunt
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Paper
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Writing utensils
Mineral Scavenger Hunt
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Writing utensils
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Worksheet
Wind Energy
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Paper (cardstock or construction paper works best)
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Pencil and eraser
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Scissors
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Thumbtack
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Rule
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Scotch tape
Solar Energy
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Index cards or paper dixie cups
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Markers of varying colors (black, red, green)
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Ziploc plastic bags
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Ice cubes
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Sunny spot by a window
Renew A Bean
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2 items of similar size and shape, but two different colors
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100 of one of the items
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11 of the other
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For example, 100 black beans and 11 black eyed peas
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