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Learners observe and discuss a simple model of a wet scrubber, a device for cleaning industrial air pollution.

In this activity, learners explore how engineers design devices that can detect the presence of pollutants in the air.

In this activity, learners explore moving air and the physics of lift and drag by constructing homemade wind tunnels.

As a model of acid rain, learners water plants with three different solutions: water only, vinegar only, vinegar-water mixture.

"Molecules in Motion" explores how materials behave and change in a vacuum.

In this activity, learners simulate Otto von Guericke's famous Magdeburg Hemispheres experiment.

In this activity, learners construct a simple air pressure launcher for paper rockets.

In this collection of demonstrations, learners explore Newton's Laws of Motion.

This lesson challenges groups of learners to design and construct a wind generator with the most electrical output.

In this activity, learners explore how pneumatics and hydraulics could be used to produce movement in a robotic arm.

In this outdoor activity, learners search for lichen, a combination of a fungus and an alga living together. Lichen grow where most other plants cannot, on rocks, the trunks of trees, logs and sand.

In this activity, learners build mini-basketball courts and explore the laws of physics. Learners discover that everything you throw or shoot on earth travels in a parabola.

In this outdoor, ocean-side activity, learners investigate the distribution of organisms in the upper region of the intertidal zone.

In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners locate and study plants and animals in several freshwater pond habitats.

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.

Your heart pumps blood throughout your body in one direction, around in a loop. In this activity, learners will make a model of one type of heart chamber called a ventricle.

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.

In this outdoor activity, learners make their own organic-rich soil. Depending on where this activity is done, learners will probably discover that their local soil is low in organic matter.