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Cleaning with Dirt
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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.
Lava Layering: Making and Mapping a Volcano
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In this activity, learners discover how geologists use stratigraphy, the study of layered rock, to understand the sequence of geological events.
Metal Reactions
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This is written as a static display, but can easily be adapted to a hands-on experiment for learners to conduct.
Abuse-a-Cyst
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In this activity, learners examine how brine shrimp populations can survive in some of the harshest environments.
To Taste or Not to Taste
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In this biology activity (page 8 of the PDF), learners will determine whether they are "tasters" or "non-tasters", test selected individuals from their families and peer group for the trait, and chart
DNA Extraction
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In this activity related to plant biotechnology, learners extract DNA from fruit to investigate how it looks and feels.
Hot Equator, Cold Poles
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In this activity, learners use multiple thermometers, placed at different angles, and a lamp to investigate why some places on Earth's surface are much hotter than others.
Water Holes to Mini-Ponds
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Dig a hole, line it, fill it with fresh water, and you have a water hole: a good place to study colonization.
Goodness Gracious! Great Balls of Gluten!
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This is an activity about a very important ingredient in most baked goods - gluten! Why is gluten so important? Without it, there would be nothing to hold the gas that makes bread rise.
Measuring Your Breathing Frequency at Rest
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In this activity about the brain and sleep (on page 138 of the PDF), learners measure their resting breathing rates. Learners will discover that breathing frequencies vary amongst individuals.
Bee Talk
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In this activity, learners smell bottles containing bee pheromone molecules (or herb/spice extracts as a substitute). Bees release these molecules to send messages to each other.
Collect Oxygen Over Water
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In this activity, learners use a pneumatic trough (see related activity) to generate and collect pure oxygen.
Find the Fat
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Fat is a very important component in our diet. It's the most efficient source of energy in our bodies, and plays an important role in the flavor of foods.
Trading Places: Redox Reactions
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Visitors add drops of copper sulfate solution onto a steel nail. They observe the nail change color from silver to brown as the copper plates onto the nail.
Modeling Mendel's Pea Experiment
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This modeling activity allows learners to discover for themselves what Mendel uncovered in his famous pea experiments.
Wheat Evolution: Sedimentation Testing
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In this activity (Page 30 of PDF), learners investigate the evolution of wheat by conducting sedimentation tests on different flours.
Amazing Albedo
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In this experiment, learners work in teams to investigate how the color of a surface influences its ability to reflect light and therefore heat.
Invisible Ink Demonstration
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In this chemistry demonstration, learners will discover that phenolphthalein is a chemical that displays different colors depending on the acidity or basicity of the environment.
The Pulse of Gravity
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In this astronomy activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will examine the effects of gravity on a person’s pulse and explore how gravity can differ from planet to planet.
The Scoop on Habitat
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Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.