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In this activity (7th activity on the page), learners use their sense of hearing to find a "sound match." Learners shake containers filled with items like dry seeds, sand, beans, etc.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity learners will create paint out of natural materials. Explore your natural world (or your fridge) and find berries, leaves, or flowers to find a great base for your paint.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how their sense of smell affects their taste buds. Learners taste different flavored jelly beans while holding their nose.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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In this activity, learners examine body parts (including skin, scales, and skulls) from fish, mammals and reptiles. Questions are provided to help encourage learner investigations.

Over $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover why some nanoscale science and technology is done in the controlled environment of a clean room, what clean rooms are like, and how scientists help keep the clean r

Over $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners sniff out scents hidden in balloons! After investigating, learners discover we sometimes can use another sense (smell) to detect things too small to see.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, the learner will experiment with the physics of sound production while making a sound making toy. The activity includes a video with step by step instructions.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this engineering design challenge, learners animate a facial expression and make a machine (zoetrope) that plays the animation back.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners use chemistry to “self-assemble” gummy shapes. Learners discover that self-assembly is a process by which molecules and cells form themselves into functional structures.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this demonstration, learners observe the effects of density and pressure. A "diver" constructed out of a piece of straw and Blu-Tack will bob inside a bottle filled with water.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - adult Under 5 minutes
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In this chemistry challenge, learners identify which plants have the enzyme "catalase" that breaks hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners smell balloons filled with different scents to guess what's inside. From this, they infer the presence and motion of scented molecules.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will be working with predictions with a time frame of one week, or longer. Start by planting seedlings.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
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In this health activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will discover why covering their mouth and nose while sneezing is so important.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this creative activity, learners will practice looking carefully to observe details and to become familiar with dioramas as a method for displaying naturalistic scenes.

free Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Why should we wear masks? Do masks work? Do some masks work better than others? Learners find out in this activity.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity demonstrates the importance of wearing a helmet to protect the brain. An egg is used to symbolize a head with the shell as the skull and the inside of the egg as the brain.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use clear nail polish to create a beautiful iridescent pattern on black paper. Learners discover that a thin film creates iridescent, rainbow colors.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners become beachcombers as they walk on a sandy beach in search of evidence of life.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will build a honeycomb. Learners will investigate how the shape of the honeycomb develops. Activity includes step-by-step instructions and extension ideas.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes