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Create 3D glasses and use them to explore color, light and optics. Fool your brain into 'seeing' three dimensions on a flat surface!

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.

Using pipe cleaners, straws, and beads, learners explore the building blocks of life by creating their own model of DNA.

In this yummy biology activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners participate in a demonstration of natural selection.

This is an activity about lung capacity. Learners will measure their own lung capacity using a homemade spirometer.

In this lab exercise, learners explore diffusion, cell membranes and particle size using beets and three alcohols.

This activity is about collecting and analyzing DNA as part of a criminal investigation.

In this activity, learners play a game that models what happens as stem cells differentiate into different cell types.

By making models of light waves with paper, learners can understand why different colors appear in bubbles.

What's a Pickle-Oh? Two pieces of pickle on a stick are connected to a Pico Cricket (micro controller). When you slide the pickles apart the note changes.

Many people get water from a source deep underground, called groundwater.

In this activity, learners will dissect a pumpkin or winter squash to learn the parts of the plant. This activity gets your learner hands on with every part of the plant and will be messy.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners explore the difference between telescope magnification and resolution.

In this activity (1st activity on the page), learners explore their sense of taste and the structure of the tongue by taste-testing various foods.

In this activity, learners will learn a bit about botany as the explore botanical names and common names of plants.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity illustrates the value of supernovae in the universe.

In this activity (26th on the page), learners construct an easy-to-build device and test motor learning.

In this activity, learners construct a cereal chain as a model of how proteins are made in the cell.

This is a hands-on activity exploring how nanoscale particles are used in mineral sunblocks to increase their transparency.

In this activity on page 1 of the PDF, learners compare the relative sizes of biological objects (like DNA and bacteria) that can't be seen by the naked eye.