Search Results

This game uses a modified Uno deck to review concepts related to stem cell research and diabetes.

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

This science activity demonstrates the dominant eye phenomena. What does your brain do when it sees two images that conflict?

In this activity, learners explore the concept of valve operation and how engineers have adapted valves for use in mechanical heart valve design.

In this interactive game, learners listen to the songs of four different thrushes and then try to match each bird with its song.

In this activity, learners test and compare the physical properties of thermoplastic polymers. Learners compare different plastics based on their color, degree of transparency, texture, and density.

In this activity, learners perform a simulated blood test procedure.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity illustrates the path of light as it reflects off of mirrors and how this is used in telescopes.

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

In this online activity, learners make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. They can change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or they can filter white light.

In this activity, learners extract DNA from their own cheek cells, then create a rudimentary DNA profile similar to those seen on crime scene dramas.

In this activity, learners will construct an air cannon as a model for the human ear.

In some parts of the world, lakes freeze during winter. In this activity learners will explore water’s unique properties of freezing and melting, and how these relate to density and temperature.

This experiment allows learners to experience a small scale "epidemic," demonstrating the ease with which disease organisms are spread, and enables learners to determine the originator of the "epidemi

Why does milk make some people sick? In this activity learners explore this question and explore the chemistry of milk, and our bodies!

From this How To slide show, you create an Audio Tape Bow that can play distorted audio sounds by running it across a tape head.

Some animals can swallow food whole, but humans have to chew. In this activity, learners will investigate what saliva does chemically to food before we even swallow.

This fun hands-on astronomy activity uses a variety of simple props to help learners understand why they see what they see in a telescope.

In this activity, learners discover why only some types of plastic can be recycled.

In this optics activity, learners explore interference by adding wax blocks to a ripple tank.