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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.

In this activity, learners discover that some plastics will shrink when you get them hot. Learners bake polystyrene in a regular oven and discover what happens.

Learners explore soybeans, soak them in water to remove their coat, and then split them open to look inside. They also make a musical shaker out of paper cups, a cardboard tube, and soybeans.

In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.

In this activity, learners construct a home-made journal with simple, everyday materials.

A design challenge that takes paper airplanes into an entirely different direction: a magnus glider uses cups and and rubber bands to create a glider that uses the same forces that a curveball (from b

Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.

Is a square stronger than a triangle? Use tongue depressors to build simple shapes. Then apply a little weight to them and see what happens!

No glue is needed for learners of any age to become marshmallow architects or engineers.

Create airplanes from straws and geometric shapes. Test them out to see how far they can fly, or how accurately they can be aimed.

Learners make their own paper using old newspaper. Learners can make their paper colorful by adding construction paper.

In this engineering activity, young learners investigate multi-level buildings.

In this activity, learners imagine what the world might look like if we could build an elevator to space!