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This fun astronomy activity allows learners to experience finding stars in the night sky that will eventually go supernova. This activity is perfect for a star party outdoors.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this sunny day, outdoor activity, learners observe changes in shadows over time. The activity also helps to develop a sense of the Earth's motion.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make pykrete by freezing a mixture of water and a material like cotton wool, grass, hair, shredded paper, wood chips, or sawdust.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 4 to 24 hours
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This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct hand-held altitude trackers. The device is a sighting tube with a marked water level that permits measurement of the inclination of the tube.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor activity, learners compare the moisture released from different kinds of leaves and from different parts of the same leaf, by observing the color change of cobalt chloride paper.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers design devices that can detect the presence of pollutants in the air.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this outdoor activity, learners race small boats, made of cork, balsa wood, popsicle sticks etc., to investigate the rate and direction of currents in a stream or creek.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners explore UV rays from the Sun and ways to protect against these potentially harmful rays.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for the warmest and coolest, windiest and calmest, wettest and driest, and brightest and darkest spots in an area.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor, winter activity, learners find living green plants under the snow and determine the light and temperature conditions around the plants.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor, beach activity, learners use tennis balls, water balloons and other simple devices to investigate the movement of waves and currents off a sandy beach.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (on page 14 of PDF), learners use a pan full of flour and some rocks to create a moonscape.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners make their own organic-rich soil. Depending on where this activity is done, learners will probably discover that their local soil is low in organic matter.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity/game, learners use thermometers to simulate how lizards survive in habitats with extreme temperatures.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Use this Moon Map Guide to help learners identify features on the Moon, while looking through a telescope.

free Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners work in teams to design and build solar water heating devices that mimic those used in residences to capture energy in the form of solar radiation and convert it to thermal energy.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 7 days
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity demonstrates the shadow of the Earth as it rises as a dark blue shadow above the eastern horizon.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this weather activity (page 10 of the PDF), learners will demonstrate the changes in atmospheric pressure by constructing their own barometer.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners investigate parallax, a method used to measure distances to stars and planets in the solar system.

free Ages 6 - 18 Under 5 minutes