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Discover Your World With NOAA An **activity book** for educators and students  Your browser does not support the video tag.**2017 Discover Your World With NOAA** Activity Book    Click the graphic above to download a PDF of the entire Activity Book. To download individual activities, click on a graphic below
    NOAA's Building Blocks
 Do you know what NOAA does? Play this game and find out.
 Boat Building Challenge
 Design a boat hull that is able to float a specified weight. Then, design a way to propel your vessel using wind power.
  Make Your Own Astrolabe
 Make your own astrolabe, and use it to estimate the height of a tree, building, or other vertical object.
 Make Your Own Compass
 Make a simple compass to find magnetic north or south, depending on where you live.
   Tied Up In Knots
 Learn to tie some basic knots that have been used by mariners for centuries and are often useful in everyday life.
 Who's Blue Peter
 Make a set of nautical signal flags, and use the flags to send messages.
  The Water Writers
 Make a sounding box and discover the profile of a model seafloor.
 Nautical Chart Challenge
 Discover some of the ways a nautical chart can help a mariner safely navigate in unfamiliar coastal waters.
   Build An Underwater Robot
 Make a simple version of an underwater remotely operated vehicle.
 Earth Origami
 Make a three-dimensional model of Earth.
  Make Your Own Volcano
 Make a model of a volcano, complete with eruption.
 Do You Have Twisted Vision?
 Experiment with polarizing filters, and find out whether you have polarization vision.
   Be A Shipwreck Detective
 Examine information about items found in and around a shipwreck.
 Weird, Red, and Slightly Gross!
 Make a three-dimensional model of a giant tubeworm!
  Follow That Hurricane
 Track a hurricane on the same type of chart used at the National Hurricane Center.
 Build Your Own Weather Station
 Build six instruments that you can use to make scientific measurements of your local weather.
   Be A Citizen Weather Reporter
 Set up a Weather Journal and record regular measurements from the instruments in your Weather Station.
 Tornado In A Bottle
 Create a vortex similar to the wind pattern of tornados.
  Rip Currents
 Demonstrate why swimmers caught in rip currents have to swim following the shoreline to escape.
 Be A Tree Ring Detective
 Cross-date tree-ring samples to find out which sample is oldest, and then find the age of the oldest sample.
   Your Own El Niño
 Create a working model that shows the El Niño effect, trade winds, and upwelling.
 Please Pass The Salt
 Experiment to find some of the ways that salt changes the physical properties of water.
  Satellite Communications
 Demonstrate two of the basic principles that make satellites useful.
 Wooly Magma
 Make a colorful model of Earth’s structure.
   Survey Mark Hunting
 Get information on the location and description of survey marks in your geographic area, and find out how to share your survey marking discoveries with the rest of the world.
 Fish Fetch
 Perform a demonstation of a survey technique used by scientists to estimate fish populations.
  The Ocean Drugstore
 Make a poster to explain that we should protect animals that seem unimportant because they may provide new drugs for treating diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, and cancer.
 Who Trashed The Ocean
 Make a poster to inform people about why marine debris is bad and why we need to stop it.
   It All Runs Downhill
 Make a model of a watershed, and show how rainfall carries pollution into the ocean and other water bodies.
 Toxic! Or Is It?
 Use a radish seed bioassay to test for toxicity.
  Invasive Species Super Sleuth
 You will be a private investigator working with other detectives to catch suspected invaders.
 Your Alien Dodecahedron
 Make a dodecahedron that shows pictures of twelve invasive animals.
   Endangered Species Origami
 Make origami models of whales and turtles.
 What Are The Impacts Of Shrinking Polar Ice Caps?
 Make a poster to explain how climate change is affecting polar ice mass, how it may affect humans, and what we can do about it.
  Following The Ocean Unicorn
 Make a poster about narwhals, how they are being affected by climate change, how climate change may affect humans, and what we can do about it.
 Make An Edible Coral Reef
 Make an edible model of a coral reef.
   Now That's Complex!
 Make a Sierpinski triangle that shows how repeatedly dividing a fixed space produces an infinite series of increasingly smaller spaces. Sponge, coral, and soft coral.
 Fixing Our Earth
 Get involved in a project to restore damaged natural resources.


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