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In this activity, learners will explore the foods that are in their kitchen and what sugars are inside of them. Explore nutrition and food labels to better understand the foods you eat.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (4th activity on the page), learners test to see if saliva is necessary for food to have taste.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (2nd activity on the page), learners explore how the nose is responsible for part of the flavor we taste in food.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Make snack time into measuring time and learn to read Nutrition Facts labels. Try this when you’re using “pourable” foods, such as cereal, yoghurt, or juice.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity about olfaction (9th activity on the page), learners smell 10 different items with different odors, including some edible food items.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners investigate an iron-fortified cereal by stirring it with a strong magnet. They discover that metallic iron is present in some cereals.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity combines learning about nutrition, math of measurement and proportion, and healthy eating. Start by distributing food packages with Nutrition Facts labeled.

free Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners add drops of alginate solution to a solution of calcium chloride. The alginate does not mix with the calcium chloride, but forms soft gel beads.

per group Ages 8 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how eating unhealthy food can damage a heart and arteries.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (12th on the page), learners investigate their ability to discriminate (see) different colors.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this science trick, learners get an egg to stand-up on its long-axis vertical to a table's top.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a yeast-air balloon to get a better idea of what yeast can do. Learners discover that the purpose of leaveners like yeast is to produce the gas that makes bread rise.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this simple exploratory activity (1st activity on the page), blindfolded learners try to identify mystery items by smell.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (last activity on the page), learners make a model of the eardrum (also called the "tympanic membrane") and see how sound travels through the air.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this matching activity (3rd activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to match pairs of opaque containers filled with various smelly items like orange peel, roses, or moth balls.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners sublimate dry ice and then taste the carbon dioxide gas.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (4th activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to rate and arrange containers filled with different dilutions of a scent (like cologne or fruit juice) in order from wea

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this online activity, learners experience the thrill of pickle making, and explore how a cucumber becomes a pickle.

free Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners explore how they can make gelatin stop light, but not stop them from seeing fruit suspended within.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (7th activity on the page), learners use their sense of hearing to find a "sound match." Learners shake containers filled with items like dry seeds, sand, beans, etc.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes