Mirror
Use something bigger than a bottle, e.g. you can make a concave dish of sheet metal, but remember to polish it.
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Close, closer, too close
Stand in pairs 3 metres away opposite each other. Little by little, come closer to each other. When one of you decides, he/she doesn’t want to come closer to the other person any more, he/she stops.
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- 3 ?
- Field:
- Social, Outdoor activities,
- Tags:
- personal space, bubble, zone, private, intimate, social, public, culture, distance, sheet of paper, pen, measure, tape measure
How much will you remember?
Replace digits with numbers (e.g.) 29, 1000, 45, 11, 66, 100). Replace digits with random words. Replace digits with a sentence consisting of 12 words. Replace digits with drawn geometric shapes.
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- 1 ?
- Field:
- Social, Mathematics,
- Tags:
- short-term memory, memorising, learning, sheet of paper, pen, digits, numbers, words
Simple sundial
Try to build such sundial, but bigger, on the playground. You can construct a sundial using e.g. a flowerpot.
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- 2 ?
- Field:
- Outdoor activities, Geography,
- Tags:
- Sun path, gnomon, time
Are all soil types the same?
Try to determine, whether different plants grow on different soil types. Check, what is under the topsoil. What is parent rock like?
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