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In this design challenge, learners will create wind-powered contraptions to transport a load, such as a cupcake or another small object, and test to see if they work.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners will see how UV light affects colors over time by making their own sunprint on construction paper.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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This design challenge is an open-ended exploration of linkages, a group of parts connected by hinges, and the types of motion they can create.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In "Chemistry is Colorful" learners explore different materials through paper chromatography.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Put on a pair of gloves and be the conductor of your invisible orchestra!

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, you take regular dominoes, and turn them into conductive switches that can turn on a LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket (micro controller). LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket is required.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá is a sink hole, or well, containing groundwater. In this activity, learners create their own cenote using chalk, limestone, acids, and rain water.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (pages 13-14), learners investigate the properties of smart materials, which are materials that respond to things that happen around them.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Play-Doh is conductive! Use the semiconductive qualities of Play-Doh to make your own squeezable instrument. Pico Cricket is required.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a marble maze that contains sensors. As a metal marble triggers the sensors, the Pico Cricket turns on lights or spins motors.

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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Build a musical ice theremin by programming a micro controller, like a Pico Cricket to respond to resistance generated by the ice melting, or the ice being touched.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this "game," learners explore and relate the evolution of stars to a Navajo creation story. The story is written on a series of cards, which are laid on a table as the story is told.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners make their own Sun tracker to explore how ancient civilizations around the world studied the Sun.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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This is a perfect summertime lunch activity! Pico Cricket is required (micro controller). First, get a bunch of cut up fruit, line them up, then plug a piece of fruit with a Pico Cricket sensor clip.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes