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Learners cut and fold a paper helicopter from the template in this PDF. They practice twirling the helicopter and observe what happens as they modify their tries.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a model of a beehive using simple materials.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Scientists use enormous wind tunnels to test the design of planes, helicopters, even the Space Shuttle.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This outdoor activity/field trip requires a place where minnows swim, such as a local pond or brook.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Rocks are made of minerals, and minerals often have crystal shapes. In this fun activity about geometry in nature, learners create their own crystal shapes out of paper.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this easy chemistry activity, learners submerge pennies in different liquids (water, lemon juice, vinegar, liquid hand soap, salt water, and baking soda mixed with water) to observe which best clea

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners get a closer look at the shape of a drop of water and a drop of oil. Learners first drip water onto wax paper and examine the shape of separate drops from a side view.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use multiple thermometers, placed at different angles, and a lamp to investigate why some places on Earth's surface are much hotter than others.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Dig a hole, line it, fill it with fresh water, and you have a water hole: a good place to study colonization.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 12 months
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Plants need nutrients to grow. This is why we apply fertilizers to grass and food crops. In this activity, learners will explore how fertilizers can affect lakes and other bodies of water.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this outdoor activity and bingo-like game, learners explore why and how seeds spread far from the plants that produce them.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners dig for and collect isopods (sometimes known as "roly-poly bugs" or "potato bugs" and other names).

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Your heart pumps blood throughout your body in one direction, around in a loop. In this activity, learners will make a model of one type of heart chamber called a ventricle.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult
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Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for lichen, a combination of a fungus and an alga living together. Lichen grow where most other plants cannot, on rocks, the trunks of trees, logs and sand.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners use squares to figure out how many border tiles are needed to enclose different areas.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity learners create patterns of hair beads.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor biology and math activity, learners estimate the size of a population of organisms too numerous to count.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes