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In this activity, learners discover that some plastics will shrink when you get them hot. Learners bake polystyrene in a regular oven and discover what happens.

In this activity, learners explore the principles of magnetism by observing how various materials interact with magnets and superconductors.

In this activity, learners look at and touch marine animal skulls to compare them and think about what they eat.

In this activity/demo, learners are introduced to the connection between medieval stained glass artisans and nanotechnology.

Use this Moon Map Guide to help learners identify features on the Moon, while looking through a telescope.

In this game, learners match descriptions of marine debris (shoes, batteries, paper towels, etc.) to images of these items.

In this activity, learners will explore their center of gravity.

In this activity learners will build roller coasters and test them using small balls or marbles.

In this activity (on page 5 of PDF), learners use dry ice and household materials to make scientifically accurate models of comets.

"Nature of Dye" allows participants to create their own dyes and art while exploring how chemicals interact and how these interactions can have real-world applications.

In this activity (on page 14 of PDF), learners use a pan full of flour and some rocks to create a moonscape.

In this international citizen science activity, learners measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations into an online database.

In this fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity, learners construct a model of our place in the Milky Way Galaxy and the distribution of stars, with a quarter and some birdseed.

This is an activity about reaction times. Just how quickly must an NHL goalie respond to save a shot, and how does your reaction time compare?

This is a guide for facilitating interaction at a touch tank with marine animals. The instructions are for setting up a display in an informal science center, but could work anywhere.

In this activity (pages 13-14), learners investigate the properties of smart materials, which are materials that respond to things that happen around them.

Make a cuíca (“kwee-ka”), a traditional Brazilian musical instrument that originated in Africa. Played primarily in Brazil, now you can play it at home, too, with this Exploratorium produced activity.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners experiment with marbles and weights to discover some basics about gravity and black holes.

In this physics activity, learners will explore buoyancy.

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