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In this activity, learners explore the economics of coal mining as you they use fake money to purchase mining tools, attempt to carefully mine their cookies, sell their chocolate chip ore, and try to

Learners set up three different bowls, each with a different mass of oatmeal. Learners monitor the temperature of the oatmeal and find that larger masses take longer to cool.

Learners build a solar oven from a cardboard pizza box, aluminum foil and plastic. Learners can use their oven to cook S'mores or other food in the sun.

Perform this classic inertia demonstration to illustrate the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy.

Learners build a wind turbine and test it to see how much energy is created.

Learners attach an egg to a rubber-band bungee cord and drop the egg.

Learners place water and part of an antacid tablet in a film canister. The reaction creates a gas reaction that launches the film canister like a rocket.

Learners assemble a hot-air balloon from tissue paper. The heated air (from a heat gun) inside the balloon is less dense than the surrounding air and causes the balloon to float.

Learners place cut flowers in colored water and observe how the flowers change. The flowers absorb the water through the stem and leaves.

In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

In this activity, learners design and build their own parachute using household materials with the goal of landing their passenger safely on a target.

Learners shred used paper, add water, and blend it into pulp. They then strain and roll the pulp out to make new paper.