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This is a great activity about wave interference. Learners will create their own wave machine and discover wave properties through hands-on investigation.

In this activity described on pages 2-3 of the PDF, participants debate whether there there's life elsewhere in the universe.

In this activity, learners help a poor cartographer color in the countries on a map, making sure each country is colored a different color than any of its neighbors.

In this activity, learners create a gelatinous slime using guar gum powder and borax. Educators can use this simple activity to introduce learners to colloids.

Learners investigate stress and strain by designing, building, and testing beams made from polymer clay.

Learners explore the physical properties of a variety of balls and how they bounce.

In this activity (3rd on the page), learners investigate circadian rhythms by examining how well people do with estimating time.

Learners build at least two different spinners (tops) to investigate how mass distribution, size, and shape affect the length of time the spinner spins.

In this puzzle, learners investigate the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city.

In this activity, learners make different shapes that hold exactly one mole of gas (air).

In this activity, learners make water rockets to explore Newton's Third Law of Motion. Learners make the rockets out of plastic bottles and use a bicycle pump to pump them with air.

Learners listen to and try to decipher a radio message that was sent from Earth to possible intelligent civilizations.

In this activity, learners are challenged to build a bird feeder using recycled materials from home and are encouraged to problem solve during the extensions.

Bones are stiff, which helps us lift heavy things and walk around, but they are also somewhat flexible, which lets them bend slightly.

Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.

Using a vertical wind tube and using simple materials, individuals and groups attempt to design a "satellite" that floats for at least 5 seconds.

Learners construct a rocket from a balloon propelled along a guide string.

Learners make a skydiver and parachute contraption and launch it. They see that the drag created by air resistance slows the descent of skydivers as they travel back to Earth.

In this activity, learners are challenged to design a planktonic organism that will neither float like a cork nor sink like a stone.

In this tabletop board game, players will represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.