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This is an activity that models the operation of a seismograph, a tool used to measure the size of earthquakes.

In this activity, learners walk the sides and interior angles of various polygons drawn on the playground. As they do so, learners practice rotating clockwise 180° and 360°.

With a coffee filter, a black marker, and a cup of water, discover the secret colors hidden in black ink.

This is an activity to do when there is a solar eclipse!

In this activity, learners use a simple trick of perspective to dress friends in tiny cutout clothing. Learners make tiny pants out of card stock and tape them to the end of a stick.

In this activity, learners will discover how to find the "sweet spots" on a baseball bat. Whenever an object is struck, it vibrates in response.

In this activity, learners experiment with surface tension using everyday household items such as strawberry baskets, paperclips, liquid dish soap, and pepper.

In this activity about osmosis, learners use a naked egg (one with a dissolved eggshell) to learn about selectively permeable membranes.

You may have tried to throw a curveball or a slider, or even a screwball, with an ordinary baseball and found it difficult to do.

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

In this activity, learners use a string and pair of scissors to find pi in the world all around them. Take the circumference of a round object with string and cut the string to that length.

In this design and physics challenge, learners construct a cylindrical wing, fly it, make modifications, and determine how the changes affect flight patterns.

In this activity, learners control the (apparent) size of a hole with their brain.

In this math activity, learners observe and sketch cracking patterns in pavement.

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

Create a simple dual pendulum and get them to swing in identical ways. This is a simple, low cost, activity produced by the Exploratorium.

In this activity, learners explore Boyle's Law and discover that water will boil at room temperature if its pressure is lowered.

In this activity, learners follow simple directions to explore and create platonic solids.

Challenge popular misconceptions, learners explore how a mirror actually reflects an image in this activity.

In this activity, learners explore motion and airflow by setting two aluminum cans on their side and blowing air in-between them.