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In this activity, learners are challenged to build a bird feeder using recycled materials from home and are encouraged to problem solve during the extensions.

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

Make a model city happier with LEDs, circuits, motors, and batteries! Groups can think, discuss, design, and build what would make a community happy. Kids can work as part of a team or on their own.

In this engineering activity, learners design parachutes to give toy figures safe landings. This activity is great for practicing an important STEM skill--changing only one variable at a time.

In this activity, learners will engineer three different parachutes to test how well each one works.

Learners investigate the concept of humidity by using a dry and wet sponge as a model. They determine a model for 100% humidity, a sponge saturated with water.

In a class demonstration, learners observe a simple water cycle model to better understand its role in pollutant transport.

In this engineering activity, learners investigate the differences between the strength of bridges made from flat and round building materials.

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

In this activity, learners examine baking powder, a combination of three powders: baking soda, cream of tartar, and cornstarch.

Based of the The Tech Challenge 2015, learners will engage in two mini-design challenges related to seismic engineering.

In this design challenge, learners will create wind-powered contraptions to transport a load, such as a cupcake or another small object, and test to see if they work.

In this activity, learners use the design thinking process to design and build their own aqueduct, or water bridge.

In this activity, challenge learners to design a roller coaster ride for a marble using cardboard and other simple materials.

What's a more compelling problem to solve than being stranded on a deserted island?

In this design challenge, learners build a boat that paddles itself using a rubber band as its power source.

In this activity, learners build small animated toys that move.

In this project, students explore how levers work, by making a puppet with moving limbs.

In this activity, learners cut out and fold their own collapsible origami starshade, an invention that shields a telescope's camera lens from the light of a distant star so that NASA scientists can ex

In this activity, learners use design thinking to design and build their own bridge out of household materials including adhesives and/or connectors.