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In this technology activity, learners light up the room with electrifying play dough creations. Learners use conductive and insulating homemade play dough to build simple circuits.

In this health, cooking, and math activity, learners explore nutrition and examine nutrition labels.

In this activity, learners explore how voting systems have changed with engineering advances over time. Learners work in teams to design their own voting system using easy to find materials.

Learners make a counting/estimating jar to exchange with friends or bring home.

In this activity, leaners explore building techniques by recreating the story of The Three Little Pigs.

In this activity, learners are challenged to design and construct a trophy for prize-winning sports equipment.

In this activity, learners construct three optical illusion toys to examine how our brains play tricks on what we see.

Scientists use enormous wind tunnels to test the design of planes, helicopters, even the Space Shuttle.

In this activity about encryption, learners cut out a secret decoder badge from a handout and use it to encode messages to each other.

In this design challenge activity, learners add headphones to a previously built instrument (see "Build a Band" activity) to make it easier to hear.

Build a house you can fit inside, using cardboard tubes.

A magic lantern is a light that projects an image onto a screen.

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.

In this activity related to microbes, learners create scale models of microorganisms and compare relative sizes of common bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa using metric measures: meters, centimete

In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

In this activity, learners discover that some things only stand up while they are spinning.

In this activity, learners explore how musical instruments are engineered.

In this activity, learners will predict the size of a giant scale model of a comb or other rectangular object, then make one. If you tripled the size of a dollar bill, could you sit on it?

This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Music and Sound) is a full inquiry investigation into sound frequency.

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.