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In this activity, learners design and build a NASA rover using raw pasta and candy with a limited imaginary budget.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this Energy and Environment activity (page 9 of the PDF), learners calculate the mass of a piece of gum, compare it to the mass of the gum's packaging, and then create a bar graph of the results.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners place an M&M candy in water and observe what happens. The sugar-and-color coating dissolves and spreads out in a circular pattern around the M&M.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate the movement of water into and out of a polymer. Learners test the diffusion of water through gummy bears, which are made of sugar and gelatin (a polymer).

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners discover the principles of edible glass by making a supersaturated sugar solution.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this interactive and informative group activity, learners use packages of M&M's to illustrate the difference between weather and climate.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners design their own experiment to determine which M&M color dissolves the fastest in water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection by encouraging them to formulate questions that can be answered through scientific investi

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection through data collection and pattern recognition.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this (edible) activity, learners balance chemical equations using different kinds and colors of candy that represent different atoms. Learners will work in pairs and explore conservation of atoms.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes