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1) What did you like/dislike about the activity/question/lab?
2) How did your students react? Did anything that came up surprise you?

These activities were developed as daily challenge problems for week-long astronomy camps for teens, but we have used them in many varieties of classroom and informal outreach venue.

mystery arithmetic

earth v. basketball

weight of humanity

light speed

baseball hot dogs

crowded or empty?

Drake equation

clues for solving Drake equation