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In this activity, learners will investigate static electricity as they create waterless snow globes.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners (at least three) work together to explore the effects of atmospheric pressure.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 14 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners explore color by examining color dots through colored water and the light of a flashlight.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (pages 3-4), learners investigate the properties of smart materials, which are materials that respond to things that happen around them.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore polymer structure and their ability to reform around objects by attempting to stab a wooden skewer through a balloon without popping it.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Make your own speaker with a magnet, wire, and paper cup! If you have a radio with a headphone plug and an old pair of headphones, this is a great tinkering activity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this physics activity, learners recreate Galileo's famous experiment, in which he dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both weights fall

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will construct a device to blow bubbles. By adding corn syrup to the bubble solution, we can increase the surface tension of the bubbles--and their size.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity about light, learners explore how water can refract light and change the way they see things.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity is about collecting and analyzing DNA as part of a criminal investigation.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners play a game that models what happens as stem cells differentiate into different cell types.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will experiment with water- and air-filled balloons as a way of dampening sound before it reaches their ears.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Ocean acidification is a big issue due to the amount of carbon dioxide humans release. CO2 in the atmosphere is absorbed into the ocean thus changing its acidity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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Working in small teams, learners try to build a satellite that can float for at least five seconds in the marked area of a vertical wind tube.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a simple tabletop seesaw to test how different variables (the position of the fulcrum, distance, weight) affect its balance under increasing weight loads.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this online interactive simulation, learners will add different salts to water and then watch the salts dissolve and achieve a dynamic equilibrium with solid precipitate.

free Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners observe working lava lamps to understand how they work (included in PDF link).

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the relative efficiency of different bulbs, specifically incandescent vs. fluorescent.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Play with your food while learning about engineering! Build a spaghetti bridge, then test its strength by piling on the marshmallows, raw spaghetti, raw linguine and coins.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (6th on the page), learners investigate how photoreceptors in the eye (rods and cones) "adapt" to low light conditions.

free Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes