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Virtual Event-- Be a Paleoecologist: Follow up

We had a lot of fun yesterday figuring out long-term changes in the environment of a location by looking at fossils from different periods in time- if you missed the guided virtual activity, the video is on our Facebook page here and you can find the downloadable documents here.

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At-Home STEM Activities: Fun with Vibrations

Have you ever turned the music up so loud that you can feel it? The floor seems to hum, and you can feel the vibrations in the walls and other objects in the room. How can music travel from a speakers and cause such powerful vibrations in other objects? In this activity you will make a model of your eardrum, and watch how sounds can make it vibrate! You will explore how sound creates vibrations and how that will affect small objects, from as little as a humming sound, to as loud of playing music through a speaker.

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