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This simple construction activity teaches the importance of architectural structure. Learners build and test designs for a paper "doghouse" strong enough to hold the weight of a jumbo dog biscuit.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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Make a rattle-like musical instrument! Shake it, hit it, spin it any way you want to!

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons, anatomy, and locomotion. Learners compare and contrast dinosaur skeletons and drawings.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 8 45 to 60 minutes
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Make a kite out of a garbage bag, shower curtain, painting tarp--anything light, thin, flexible and plastic!

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity and game, learners explore how animals adapt for survival through coloration, markings and camouflage.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate feeding relationships. Learners complete a food web and then make a mobile to represent a food chain.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor art/environmental activity, learners create designs that will attract attention to animals and plants in particular habitats, and then test whether their designs attracted the "right"

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Learn about friction and kinetic energy with this cool spinning toy.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this playful, goopy activity, learners mix two liquids to create a solid (that sometimes acts like a liquid ), using basic household materials such as borax and glue.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will predict the size of a giant scale model of a comb or other rectangular object, then make one. If you tripled the size of a dollar bill, could you sit on it?

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will build the highest tower they can out of recycled materials.

free Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this science/art activity, learners create an insignia or emblem for a planet exploration mission.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners use information gathered from a variety of sources to design and make their own insect.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore why animals, specifically dinosaurs, live in families.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 8 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will reuse plastic bags in an interesting way.

free Ages 6 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing their very own instruments using PVC pipes, soda bottles, and a straw.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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This activity uses a special paper that can create images with exposure to the Sun. Collect objects of different shapes and sizes and use them to make interesting patterns on your sun print.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make or use pre-made clay beams to scale and proportion. Specifically, they discover that when you scale up proportionally (i.e.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing their very own banjo out of a coffee can. Learners experiment with the canjo to change the instrument's pitch and timbre.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners create handmade animal track stamps. Learners research animal tracks, draw the shapes on moleskin, and then stick the shapes onto blocks of wood to make stamps.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes