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In this activity, learners use transparent tape and polarizing material to create and project beautifully colored patterns reminiscent of abstract or geometric stained glass windows--no glass required

The Drawing Board consists of a marking pen that remains stationary and a platform that swings beneath the pen, acting as a pendulum.

In this activity, learners explore electronics and motion by making a Scribbling Machine, a motorized contraption that moves in unusual ways and leaves a mark to trace its path.

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

This activity provides instructions for making an aircraft that can really fly using a straw and paper hoops!

In this activity, learners use pattern blocks and mirrors to explore symmetry. Learners work in pairs and build mirror images of each other's designs.

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.

This activity shows you how to make amazing crystal spikes using Epsom salt and the sun.

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

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

In this activity, learners will observe laminar and turbulent flow of water using only a plastic bottle, liquid hand soap, food coloring and water.

In this activity, learners make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene). The instructions include discussion questions for both before and after bridge building.

In this activity, learners discover how to rotate a flat shape into the third dimension. Learners draw and cut out a shape that has at least one straight edge on an index card.

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

In this activity, learners use a simple trick of perspective to dress friends in tiny cutout clothing. Learners make tiny pants out of card stock and tape them to the end of a stick.

This activity shows learners (with adult supervision) how to make a Glitter Globe, a fabulous toy that shimmers when you shake it.

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

In this activity, learners explore the properties of paper by constructing and modifying paper airplanes.

In this activity, learners build a paper stellated rhombic dodecahedron, a three-dimensional 12-pointed star.