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In this activity, learners use a pencil, magnets, and mat board to illustrate Newton's Second Law.

In this activity, learners engineer a paper helicopter that spins to the ground when dropped.

In this activity, learners perform a plant dissection to gain a better understanding of a plant’s structure and function.

Put the math of measurement, numbers, and everyday life into improvisational skits.

In this activity, learners will explore how light can refract or break apart into different colors.

Make a camouflage cut-out animal! Using patterned paper or magazine pictures from around the house, use your craft skills to make a paper animal that blends into its background.

This Exploratorium activity can be used in many contexts because geysers are great opportunities for learning about heat and temperature changes as well as geological/space science phenomena.

In this activity, learners will explore how their own eyes work by experimenting with their photoreceptors.

In this activity (on pages 55-66 of PDF), learners fold paper into origami shapes and then combine several identical shapes into a three-dimensional structure.

Things that are different sizes and stiffness vibrate differently, and in this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll see how rings of various diameters react to vibration and external forces.

In this activity, learners will build an air cannon out of simple materials you can find around the house. Although air is invisible to the eye, it is not by any means empty space!

In this activity, learners create a kind of balance device using a wire coat hanger, some string, and paper cups.

This is a quick activity (on page 2 of the PDF under Gecko Feet Activity) about the forces of gravity and surface tension and how their behavior is influenced by size.

In this activity, learners surprise their eyes with an optical illusion involving arrows made out of pipe cleaners.

In this math activity, learners guess a secret number between 1 and 100 in a three-player game.

In this math activity, learners create a magic turtle where all the rows, columns and diagonals add up to fifteen.

In this activity, learners are introduced to division and fractions as they share snacks with a group of friends.

These two activities (4th on the page) demonstrate the importance of two eyes in judging depth.

Make a quick and easy filter from household materials. A filter will catch any solids suspended in a liquid and filter them out. By using a filter, learners can discover amazing things.