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In this activity, learners interact with whale artifacts such as replicas of skulls, bones, teeth, and baleen (hair-like plates that form a feeding filter).

In this activity, learners will explore how metals react with each other. They will see these metals change before their eyes as they coat a paperclip with the copper taken from a penny.

In this activity, learners will experiment with catalysts to create an at-home version of elephant toothpaste.

Learners construct a bracelet containing two strands of beads, which represents a double strand of DNA that codes for a gene. They match beads to the bases in a section of a chimp's DNA code.

This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.

In this activity, learners work in partners to create and exchange messages written in Braille. Learners use a Braille key and thumbtacks to write their messages in Braille.

This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can utilize it to investigate volume, mass, and density.

Most of the time, we don't have to think about breathing. In fact, you're probably breathing right now without thinking about it!

This is an activity about inertia, Newton's First Law of Motion. Learners will discover how an egg at rest, or any object at rest, stays that way.

Our bodies produce snot, or mucus, that we blow from our noses. In this activity, learners will create a model of how snot works and will explore how it keeps our bodies healthy.

In this activity on page 14 of the PDF (Rethinking the 3 R’s: It’s Easy to be Green), learners turn plain pieces of recycled plastic into shrunken works of art.

Scientists use enormous wind tunnels to test the design of planes, helicopters, even the Space Shuttle.

In this activity on page 7 of the PDF, learners explore how engineers characterize building materials.

In this activity, learners construct a home-made journal with simple, everyday materials.

This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to learn to differentiate between qualitative and quantitative observations and to practice data collection.

In two separate bags, learners mix water with Epsom salts and detergent.

In this activity, you'll use a straw, a water bottle and a paper tube to make an instrument that's very much like a saxophone.

This is an activity about friction as well as kinetic and potential energy.

An ordinary camera has a lens that makes an image on film. In a pinhole camera, a small hole replaces the lens.

Electrolysis is the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen. This Exploratorium activity allows learners to visualize the process with an acid-based indicator.