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Teachers
may photocopy Curriculum Guide printouts to use in the classroom before
and after a Whitaker Center Field Visit. These guides are a fun and informative
way to enrich students' Whitaker Center experience.
Grades
K - 2
Color
and Light
Pre-Visit
Guides
Mixing
Color
Rainbow
Poem
Post-Visit Guides
Do
I Feel Red, Black, or Yellow?
Shadow
Dancing
Simple Machines
Pre-Visit Guides
Introduction
to Simple Machines
What
is a Simple Machine
Machines
and Work
Post-Visit Guides
Invention:
Mystery Machine
Simple Machine Safety
Sound and Music
Pre-Visit Guides
Exploring
Pitch
How
Sound Travels
Post-Visit Guide
Make
a Telephone
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Pre-Visit Guides
Why is the Sky Blue?
Post-Visit Guides
Cereal Box Camera
Through the Magnifying Lens
Simple Machines
Pre-Visit Guides
Identify the Simple Machine
Simple Machine Charades
Post-Visit Guides
Draw a Simple Machine
Inventors Corner
Simple Machine Scavenger Hunt
Without the Inclined Plane, We wouldn't have the Screw
Sound and Music
Pre-Visit Guides
Echolocation
Exploring Beat and Rhythm
Exploring Musical Instruments
Post-Visit Guides
Making the Band
Rumpus Poem
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Color
and Light
Pre-Visit
Guides
Spectroscopy
UltraViolet
Light as a Food Preservative
Why is it Upside Down: Images Through a Lens
Post-Visit
Guides
Puzzling
Pixels and Pretty Pictures
Redesign the Exhibit Signage
Simple Machines
Pre-Visit
Guides
Build an Index Card Car
"Villa's
Villa"
What Simple Machine am I?
Post-Visit
Guides
Building
Levers Plus
Design a Compound Machine
First, Second & Third Class Levers
Sound and Music
Pre-Visit Guides
Doppler Effect
Observing Sound Waves
Post-Visit
Guides
Pipe
of Pan
Sound Pollution
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Grades
9 - 12
Color and Light
Pre-Visit
Guides
Feeling the Spectrum
Making
Your Own Polarizing Lens
Post-Visit
Guides
Gelatin Fiber Optics
Light at Work
The
Color Spectrum
Using a Laser to Determine Solution Concentration
Simple Machines
Pre-Visit Guides
Anantomical
Studies of Gadgets
Part
I: Rube Goldberg Product Research
Simple
Machine Song
Post-Visit
Guides
Part II: Rube Goldberg Machine
Part III: Rube Goldberg Machine
Redesign
an Everyday Item
Sound and Music
Pre-Visit Guides
Calculating
the Speed of Sound
The
Curve of Sound Waves
Post-Visit
Guides
Doppler Effect & Ultrasound
Guitar Physics
Hearing Impairments
Sonic
Boom
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