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Size and Distance
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In this activity about depth perception, learners create an optical illusion in a shoe box.

Pea Brain!: Explorations in Estimation
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In this activity, learners use two different techniques to estimate how many little things fit into one bigger thing.

Body Biographies
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In this activity, learners will learn about a person they admire (famous, family or otherwise) or even themselves and create a life-sized silhouette.

Sketch a Skeleton
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In this activity (on pages 15-18 of PDF), learners make a life-size two-dimensional paper model of their own skeletons.

Draw Your Nervous System
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In this activity, learners work together to create a life-sized drawing of the human nervous system.

The Pressure's On
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In this chemistry activity, learners explore chemical reactions and their effects, including the kind of reaction in the human body that makes people burp!

Inside Out
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Learners draw and cut out shapes of organs from construction paper. Then they attach these organs to the body of one learner to make a life-sized map of all the internal organs.

Mapping the Homunculus
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In this activity, learners will explore how the human brain interprets environmental stimuli.

Keeps on Pumpin': Your Heart
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In this activity, learners explore the great pump in their chests--the human heart!

Energy Sources
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In this activity about the relationship between food and energy (page 5 of PDF), learners conduct an experiment to compare how much energy is released as heat from two different foods.