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In this activity about food safety and nutrition, learners investigate safe food preparation by making fruit ice cream.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 10-15), learners investigate starch in human diets and how plants make starch (carbohydrates) to use as their food source.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this nutrition activity, learners explore food labels and consider the nutritional value of foods. Learners also explore units of measurement commonly used on food labels.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this graphing activity (on pages 33-40), learners investigate how much and what kinds of food sea otter pups eat during their first year of life.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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This game explores the different reasons we choose to eat, and helps us be aware of when our body needs food and when it does not.

free Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct possible food webs for six different ecosystems as they learn about the roles of different kinds of living organisms.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity on page 7 of the PDF (Chemistry—It’s Elemental), learners use iodine to identify foods that contain starch.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this food science activity, learners conduct an experiment that demonstrates the importance of light to plants.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
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En esta tira cómica, Mateo y Cientina emplean su conocimiento de la química y las medidas para esta actividad deliciosa - ¡hacer helado!

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 23-29), partners use the Plant Traveler Cards, along with a world map and map worksheets, to follow plants such as cassava, chocolate and coffee that grew first in one part

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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This reading and writing activity (on pages 2-9) teaches what plant parts should be avoided, how a person can get rid of toxins, symptoms of plant poisoning, and how plants create poisons to repel pre

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners make self-assembled polymer spheres.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a necklace of wheat germ DNA. Learners add alcohol to wheat germ so that the DNA clumps together.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this environmental health activity, learners grow and observe bread mold and other kinds of common fungi over the course of 3-7 days.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners investigate the process of osmosis by adding salt to a sealed bag of raw carrots and comparing it to a control.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 34-39), learners make a fairly detailed model of DNA using licorice and gumdrops.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this design challenge, learners will use microbes to design and grow a custom biomaterial at home and make something creative with it.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners compare and contrast their own skin (including the area covered) with that of an orange.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours