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Paper Animals
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This resource contains ideas and brief instructions on how to build animals out of construction paper and other simple materials.

Pyramids and Triangles
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Straws and pipe cleaners are terrific materials for building models of pyramids and cubes.

Make a Garbage Bag Kite
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Make a kite out of a garbage bag, shower curtain, painting tarp--anything light, thin, flexible and plastic!

Battle the Baby!
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In this interactive game, learners compare their music-listening skills with that of a three-month-old baby.

Valves and Pumps: A Demonstration
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This is a demonstration you can use to show learners how valves and pumps work in concert to move blood through the circulatory system.

Art Cars
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In this activity, learners design miniature cars. Learners can create a telephone car, soccer car, merry-go-round car, or any other theme car they can imagine.

Build a Soundscape
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This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

Pulse of Life: Measure Your Pulse
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In this activity, learners take their own pulse and explore how heart rate is affected by various activities.

Straws and Airplanes
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Create airplanes from straws and geometric shapes. Test them out to see how far they can fly, or how accurately they can be aimed.

Sun Prints
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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.
Magnus Glider
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A design challenge that takes paper airplanes into an entirely different direction: a magnus glider uses cups and and rubber bands to create a glider that uses the same forces that a curveball (from b

Strong Shapes
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Is a square stronger than a triangle? Use tongue depressors to build simple shapes. Then apply a little weight to them and see what happens!

The Heart as a Pump
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Learners will build a homemade pump using a balloon, a mason jar, and some straws.

Spinning Tops
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Create your own spinning top, and explore color, shapes and spinning. This activity contains instructions for making your spinning top, and tips on how to design and decorate it.

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

Indicator Paper
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Use grape juice, baking soda, water and vinegar to make acid and base indicator paper! This activity contains a recipe and instructions for the indicator paper.

Sound Mixer: A Multi-track Mixer of Animal Sounds
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This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

Butterfly Life Cycle Optical Illusion
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This activity is a fun way to show two stages in a Monarch butterfly's life cycle. Learners will create an optical illusion that can be flipped from caterpillar to butterfly.

Radial Chromatography
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How many colors make black? Gather as many water soluble black markers as you can find.

Painting a Picture with Air
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Create a painting by blowing air out of a straw. Push liquid acrylic paint around on some watercolor paper by aiming short bursts of air onto the paint puddle.