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In this activity, learners will turn an ordinary tray of sand into a desk-top garden for meditation.

In this fun activity about spiders, learners build and design a spider from cardstock, straw, string, and pipe cleaners.

Learners will follow a specific process to make their own paper using scrap paper, newspaper, or junk mail.

In this activity, learners will repurpose an old t-shirt to create their own yarn or string.

In this math activity, learners experiment with the concept of symmetry.

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 activity, learners make a device called a phenakistoscope, which displays a continuously looping animation consisting of images drawn onto a spinning disc.

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.

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!

In this activity, learners will explore nature by creating food for birds. Learners will develop fine motor skills and engage in nature observation through this activity.

In this activity, learners construct bug models that "jitter" all over the table with just a battery, motor, and counterweight.

In this math activity, learners sort patterns into similar "families" or groups that have the same pattern, but different symbols.

In this activity (on pages 55-66 of PDF), learners fold paper into origami shapes and then combine several identical shapes into a three-dimensional structure.

In this activity, learners explore the human influences on the carbon cycle and examine how fossil fuels release carbon.

In this math activity, learners trace their hands and estimate the number of beans that can fit into their hand tracings. Then, learners glue the beans to the tracing to test out their estimations.

In this activity, learners design and build a NASA rover using raw pasta and candy with a limited imaginary budget.

Using a milk-based recipe, learners create "moo glue" which is basically white school-type glue. The "secret ingredient" in milk that helps make glue is a chemical called casein.

In this engineering design activity, learners will design, test, and build a “haunting machine” to solve a Sherlockian mystery.

In this simple and fun activity, learners build a tower of cups to explore distribution of weight. Learners make predictions about their towers and test their designs.