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In this chemistry activity, learners explore the amount of copper in a new penny. Learners use toilet bowl cleaner to hollow out the interior of a penny with zinc inside.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 1 to 7 days
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This activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Farm Animals Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into raising livestock.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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Learners will collect pennies to donate and will combine charitable giving with estimating and calculating with money. To start choose a charity or something to save up for together.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this online game, learners run an outer space drink stand and thirsty alien customers are on the way.

free Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore chemical engineering and how the processes of chemical plating and electroplating have impacted many industries.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners use heat to separate zinc and copper in a penny. This experiment demonstrates physical properties and how physical change (phase change) can be used to separate matter.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this coin math activity, learners sort and stack 100 (one hundred) pennies into piles of 5 pennies each, 10 pennies each, and 20 pennies each.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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A group of learners has an envelope containing a series of bank checks. A few checks are removed at a time, and the team attempts to construct a plausible scenario which involves those checks.

free Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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MarsBound! is an engineering simulation activity in which learners use realistic techniques to plan a mission to Mars.

free Ages 8 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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In this chemistry activity, learners use chemical reactions to observe the composition of an alloy.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners watch a video to learn about a couple who built a home out of shipping containers in Brooklyn, New York.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes