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Crazy Shapes
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In this activity, learners cut a shape into two equal sized pieces and use their knowledge of geometry and space to prove that the two parts are equal.
Heat Speeds Up Reactions
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In this activity, learners investigate the effect of heat on a reaction.
Float My Boat
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In this activity, learners use tinfoil to build and test their own boats - which designs will float, and which will sink?
Finding the Right Crater
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This quick demonstration (on page 11 of PDF) allows learners to understand why scientists think water ice could remain frozen in always-dark craters at the poles of the Moon.
Hot Air Balloon
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In this activity, learners build a hot air balloon using just a few sheets of tissue paper and a hair dryer.
Hand Spin Helicopter
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In this activity, learners build helicopters and launchers using wooden dowels and scrap paper. Use this activity to explore rotational motion and kinetic and potential energy.
Eye Spy
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This fun activity uses simple materials such as milk cartons and mirrors to introduce the ideas of optics and visual perception.
Giant Museum: Create a Scale Model
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In this activity, learners will predict the size of a giant scale model of a comb or other rectangular object, then make one. If you tripled the size of a dollar bill, could you sit on it?
Action Figure
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In this project, students explore how levers work, by making a puppet with moving limbs.
Earth's Water: A Drop in Your Cup
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This creative lesson plan provides a visual way for learners to gain knowledge about the finite amount of fresh water on Earth and encourages the discussion of the various ways to conserve this resour
As Straight as a Pole
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In this engineering activity (page 3 of PDF), young learners investigate how a pole can be made stable by “planting” its base in the ground or adding supports to the base.
Morning Star and Evening Star
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This demonstration activity models how Venus appears from Earth.
Designing a Wall
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In this engineering activity (page 5 of PDF), young learners investigate how materials and design contribute to the strength of a structure, particularly walls.
Wash Away Germs
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Many germs spread by our hands, and often times, people don't wash their hands well enough to get rid of germs.
My Insect
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In this activity, learners use information gathered from a variety of sources to design and make their own insect.
Pocket Solar System: Make a Scale Model
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners build a scale model of the universe with little more than adding machine tape.
Disappearing Statues
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In this activity (on page 8), learners model how marble statues and buildings are affected by acid rain.
Making Vocal Cords
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In this activity, learners imitate the way vocal cords work by building a model from a plastic cup, rubber band, and a straw.
Biobarcodes: Antibodies and Nanosensors
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In this activity/demo, learners investigate biobarcodes, a nanomedical technology that allows for massively parallel testing that can assist with disease diagnosis.
Water Underground
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Many people get water from a source deep underground, called groundwater.