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Just like birds, some dinosaurs had air-filled (pneumatic) bones, which made the dinosaurs' skeletons lighter.

$1 - $5 Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners use ABS pipe and an air leaf blower to make a strong shooting machine.

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this physics activity, learners recreate Galileo's famous experiment, in which he dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both weights fall

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this collection of demonstrations, learners explore Newton's Laws of Motion.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this demonstration, learners investigate mass, gravity, and acceleration by dropping a wooden bar with a balloon attached to its underside, a mass suspended from it by rubber bands, and a sharp-poi

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners are introduced to robotic submarines called gliders. Learners make “gliders” from plastic syringes and compare these to Cartesian bottles and plastic bubbles.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a "Jam Jar Jet" based on Francois Reynst's discovery of a pulsejet engine, which uses one opening for both air intake and exhaust.

$10 - $20 per student Ages 14 - adult 2 to 4 hours