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Float Your Boat
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In this physics activity, learners will explore buoyancy.

Signs of Life
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In this activity, learners examine photo images of Earth taken from space, and attempt to identify and explain some of our planet's geological features.

Jem's Pykrete Challenge
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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.

Crash Landing!
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In this activity, groups cut out and sort cards showing items recovered from a crash landing on the Moon. The 12 items range from food and water to rope and matches to a self-inflating life raft.

How can Clouds Help Keep the Air Warmer?
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In this activity, learners explore how air warms when it condenses water vapor or makes clouds.

Penny Battery
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In this activity, learners light an LED with five cents. Learners use two different metals and some sour, salty water to create a cheap battery.

Critical Angle
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In this optics activity, learners examine how a transparent material such as glass or water can actually reflect light better than any mirror.

Habitable Worlds
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In this group activity, learners consider environmental conditions—temperature, presence of water, atmosphere, sunlight, and chemical composition—on planets and moons in our solar system to determine

Counting With Quadrants
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Millions of organisms can live in and around a body of water.

Natural Indicators
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Learners combine different plant solutions -- made from fruits, vegetables, and flowers -- with equal amounts of vinegar (acid), water (neutral), and ammonia (base).

Make a Heart Valve
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In this activity, learners make a model of a one-way heart valve to investigate how a heart controls the direction of blood flow.