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This activity provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a rain stick, a musical instrument originating in South America.

Learners will explore the chemistry of mucous and its importance to our health by following a process to make their own replica "snot." The activity includes a time and age recommendation, a materials

In this activity, learners create music from a series of bottles filed with water. Learners discover that the sound produced by each bottle depends on the amount of water in the bottle.

In this activity, learners explore the concepts of density and basic chemical reactions as they create a homemade lava lamp effect using water, oil, food coloring, and Alka-Seltzer tablets.

In this activity related to music and sound vibrations, learners make a phonograph or record player out of simple materials. First, learners assemble the turntable, arm, and sound cone.

In this math activity, learners make toothpick designs by following simple patterns.

In this activity, learners will experiment with water- and air-filled balloons as a way of dampening sound before it reaches their ears.

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.

In this optics activity, learners use everyday materials to make a color wheel. When learners spin the wheel like a top, they will be surprised to see all the colors mixing together to appear white.

When was the last time you took a really close look at a leaf? In this activity, learners will use leaves and simple materials to make colorful leaf rubbings.

In this activity, learners make some music by constructing a kazoo out of a simple plastic drinking straw. Use this activity to explore sound, vibrations, and music.

In this activity, learners will discover how to find the "sweet spots" on a baseball bat. Whenever an object is struck, it vibrates in response.

In this activity, learners craft their own model of a comet on a stick to make it fly around the room.

Use grape juice, baking soda, water and vinegar to make acid and base indicator paper! This activity contains a recipe and instructions for the indicator paper.

In this a hands-on activity, learners explore how to put ice cream in an oven without it melting. Ideas in this activity include insulation and cooking.

In this activity, learners discover how artists start with a skeleton and turn it into a realistic drawing of a dinosaur.

In this design challenge activity, learners explore the concept of biomimicry by using a natural organism's special features to design a new human object.

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

In this activity, learners will explore how computers represent pictures using pixels.

In this activity, learners make a 3-D model of DNA using paper and toothpicks. While constructing this model, learners will explore the composition and structure of DNA.