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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity demonstrates the shadow of the Earth as it rises as a dark blue shadow above the eastern horizon.

In this activity, learners build handheld rockets and launchers out of PVC pipes and plastic bottles. Use this activity to demonstrate acceleration, air pressure, and Newton's Laws of Motion.

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

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

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.

In this outdoor activity, learners discover how the environment around a building affects the growth of plants.

In this engineering design challenge, learners make a bird and then control its flight with attached strings.

In this activity, learners build a water squirter using a PVC pipe, dowel, and foam. This activity is great for the summer time and introduces learners to forces and water pressure.

In this activity, learners are challenged to build a bird feeder using recycled materials from home and are encouraged to problem solve during the extensions.

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

This activity (9th activity on the page) about hearing demonstrates to learners the importance of having two ears.

In this activity, learners construct a home-made journal with simple, everyday materials.

An ordinary camera has a lens that makes an image on film. In a pinhole camera, a small hole replaces the lens.

In this activity, learners use simple, everyday materials to experiment with balls and ramps.

In this activity, learners use found natural materials to create a water haven for bees and other insects.

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 will investigate the part of soil. Explore how clay, silt, and sand make up the dirt in your background. Activity includes step-by-step instructions and extension ideas.

This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

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.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners make 3-dimensional models of the Earth and Moon.