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In this activity, learners will train to improve lung, heart, and other muscle endurance as they walk a progressive, measured distance.

free Ages 8 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity, learners build handheld rockets and launchers out of PVC pipes and plastic bottles. Use this activity to demonstrate acceleration, air pressure, and Newton's Laws of Motion.

Over $20 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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This activity (on pages 10-12 of the PDF) encourages learners to consider what makes living things different from non-living things.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners explore how anemometers work to record wind speeds and how the equipment has undergone engineering adaptations over time.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners use Styrofoam to collect organisms from a pond, estuary or marine environment and then examine what they have caught with a microscope.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners use cooperation and logical thinking to find solutions to network problems on the playground.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor game, learners play the roles of gray or red squirrels gathering and storing a supply of food in "fall" and recovering enough of them to survive the "winter." Learners carry bags repre

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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This activity uses a special paper that can create images with exposure to the Sun. Collect objects of different shapes and sizes and use them to make interesting patterns on your sun print.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 11 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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This activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Temperate Rain Forest Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into biodiversity of a given habitat.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this math activity, learners make their own bubble wands and determine if the size of the wand affects the number of bubbles it produces.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners build particulate matter collectors--devices that collect samples of visible particulates present in polluted air.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 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, learners conduct a controlled experiment to examine how temperature will affect the height of a soda geyser.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners will explore engineering to construct an insect collecting tool (insect aspirator). The pooter uses suction to safely collect smaller insects that nets miss or may injure.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore rocketry and the principals of space flight.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners simulate a wolf and its habitat and observe what happens when the limiting factors change over time.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners use coverslips to collect organisms from a pond, estuary or marine environment and then examine what they have caught with a microscope.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, some learners pretend to be wolves, while the other learners pretend to be the prey of the wolf. The goal of the simulation is to have the wolves work together to survive.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this international citizen science activity, learners measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations into an online database.

free Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes