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This activity is about the mural making process done about 9,000 years ago in Catalhoyuk, Turkey.

Learners create their own piece of history by decorating, shattering, and piecing together a flowerpot "artifact".

Cardboard Automata are a playful way to explore simple machine elements while creating a mechanical sculpture.

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.

Educator Amy O'Donnell from the American Museum of Natural History guides learners to create a diorama of a coral reef.

In this activity, learners make scale models of the Sun and Earth out of paper mache.

In this activity, learners explore the concept of rotational equilibrium. Learners work in teams to estimate and determine the force within a mobile design.

In this outdoor activity, learners work in pairs using their senses—especially touch—to learn more about individual trees.

In this math lesson, learners count and compare amounts of money less than or equal to one dollar.

In this activity, learners investigate color vision as well as plan and conduct their own experiments.

In this math lesson, learners participate in a variety of activities that give them experience in recognizing, describing, and extending repeating and arithmetic patterns.

In this physics activity, learners build a toy with a figure that spins around like a gymnast on the high bar.

Make a one-string "guitar" by stringing a cup with some fishing line. You amplify the plucking of the string by placing a piezo contact microphone and mini battery powered amplifier inside the cup.

In this activity, learners build a simple solar oven out of household materials to melt chocolate and marshmallow between graham crackers--known as s'mores.

In this math activity, learners read "The Button Box" by Margarette S. Reid and then make their own button boxes filled with different buttons.

In this math lesson, learners are introduced to proportional reasoning through modeling, sharing, and questioning techniques.

In this drawing/mapping activity, learners design plots of land while incorporating positive strategies for improving water quality.

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

In this activity, learners take measurements and create charts to learn about the size of dinosaurs and their relative scale to humans.