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Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Paper Clip ActivityScience Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Paper Clip Activity
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Science Museum of Minnesota
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3rd - 5th
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Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Paper Clip

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In this lesson make a parachute that will carry a load of paper clips in this revised activity. Links provided for 2 other activities to demonstrate air resistance.

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air, air resistance, spinning

Additional Tags

air movement, everyday materials, load, paper clip, science activity, parachute, pinwheel, air movements

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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