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In this activity, learners get hands-on experience with ratios and scaling while making their own jewelry out of recycled plastic containers.

Up close, an array of dots could look random, but take a step back, and an image forms. By tracing over an image, learners can create their own dot based image.

To understand how skaters turn in midair, try this little experiment! Individuals can do this activity alone, but it works better with a partner.

In this activity related to music and sound vibrations, learners make a phonograph or record player out of simple materials. First, learners assemble the turntable, arm, and sound cone.

Make a big canvas of iridescent color with pvc pipe! In this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll need to cut and assemble some PVC pipe, but the pay-off, the soap-bubble canvas, is big.

In this activity, learners will discover how to find the "sweet spots" on a baseball bat. Whenever an object is struck, it vibrates in response.

In this activity, learners follow simple directions to explore and create platonic solids.

In this activity, learners make a photographic image--without a camera!

In this STEAM activity, learners create a "pixel tube" to explore reflections of light and color mixing.

When baseball was in its infancy, the ball had plenty of bounce. Today's baseball may not seem to have bounce to it at all; if you drop a ball on the field it won't bounce back.

In this activity, you'll use a straw, a water bottle and a paper tube to make an instrument that's very much like a saxophone.

Align four color transparencies, each one a single color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), and see a beautiful full color image.

The Ancient Egyptians used a naturally-occurring salt from the banks of the Nile River, called natron, to mummify their dead.

In ancient Chaco Canyon, the people used a "sun dagger" petroglyph to mark the passing of seasons.

In this activity, learners practice drawing 3D structures in two dimensions. Learners draw cube stacks from five different points of view.

In this activity, "write" a secret message in genetic code as beads on a string.

In this activity about light and perception, learners create pictures in thin air.

In this activity, learners try to figure out who has their matching rock type by reading a description of their rock (no talking!).

Have you ever heard of a camera without a lens? In this activity, learners create a pinhole camera out of simple materials. They'll see the world in a whole new way: upside down and backwards!