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In this activity, learners explore Boyle's Law and discover that water will boil at room temperature if its pressure is lowered.

Water treatment on a large scale enables the supply of clean drinking water to communities.

In this activity, learners investigate the movement of water into and out of a polymer. Learners test the diffusion of water through gummy bears, which are made of sugar and gelatin (a polymer).

Learners experiment with water gel crystals, or sodium polyacrylate crystals, which absorb hundreds of times their weight in water. When in pure water, the water gel crystals cannot be seen.

Why is ocean water sometimes the warmest when the average daily air temperature starts to drop? In this activity, learners explore the differing heat capacities of water and air using real data.

Water sticks to all kinds of things in nature — flowers, leaves, spider webs - and doesn't stick to others, such as a duck's back.

In this activity, learners explore the forces at work in water. Learners experiment to find out what happens to pepper in water when they touch it with bar soap and liquid detergent.

In this experiment, learners float colored ice cubes in hot and cold water.

In this activity, learners sublimate dry ice and then taste the carbon dioxide gas.

In this activity, learners use objects they find on a nature and water to make creative frozen sculptures.

In this activity, learners will explore the physics of liquids and gas by playing with both! Learners of any age use their own breath to move drops of water across a smooth wax paper surface.

Learners add two dyes to mineral oil and water, and then compare their miscibility (how well they mix) in each.

In this activity, learners make their own heat waves in an aquarium.

In this activity, learners experiment with surface tension using everyday household items such as strawberry baskets, paperclips, liquid dish soap, and pepper.

In this quick activity, learners drink Avogadro's number worth of molecules - 6.02x10^23 molecules!

In this experiment, learners examine how pressure affects water flow. In small groups, learners work with water and a soda bottle, and then relate their findings to pressure in the deep ocean.

Learners place cut flowers in colored water and observe how the flowers change. The flowers absorb the water through the stem and leaves.

In this activity, learners discuss the different salinities of oceans, rivers and estuaries.

In this activity, learners investigate convection by using food coloring and water of different temperatures.

In this activity, learners explore the concept of density-driven currents (thermohaline circulation) and how these currents are affected by climate change.