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Homemade Hovercraft!
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Hovercraft) is a full inquiry investigation into hovercraft engineering and design optimization.
Construction and Destruction
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In this three/four-day lesson, learners calculate perimeters and areas and draw the castle plan to scale.
Castle Basics
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In this four-day lesson, learners identify three-dimensional forms in castle design, research different parts of the castle with a focus on their uses, and design and enlarge a banner for the great ha
A Swell Activity with Beans
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In this combination chemistry and physics activity, learners explore water absorption in dried beans or peas and learn how this affects their physical properties.
Design and Build a Barometer
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In this activity, learners make a barometer, an instrument to measure change in air pressure.
Recycle Your Own Paper!
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In this activity (page 2 of PDF under GPS: Garbology Activity), learners will prepare sheets of homemade recycled paper from several different source pulps.
Ship the Chip
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In this activity, learners explore engineering package designs that meet the needs of safely shipping a product.
Chemistry in the Kitchen
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In this kitchen chemistry activity, learners explore the chemistry of crystals by making sugar crystals, consider a common chemical reaction type responsible for the rising of muffins and cake in the
Make a Terrarium
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In this activity, learners make a miniature greenhouse or "terrarium" to explore the greenhouse effect.
Living Clocks
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In this activity about daily rhythms (on page 17 of the PDF), learners will explore circadian patterns in humans, animals and plants.
Traveling Nanoparticles Model
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under Nanosilver Activity) about diffusion of small molecules across cell membranes.
Using a Sundial
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In this activity (on page 12 of the PDF), learners make a sundial (shadow clock) appropriate for their geographic location in the northern hemisphere and use it to tell time.
Reason for the Seasons
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In this activity (on page 6 of the PDF), learners plot the path of the sun's apparent movement across the sky on two days, with the second day occurring two or three months after the first.
Plant Piping
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Learners build models to learn about the special cells and structures that plants use to move water from their roots up through the stems and leaves.
Create a Food Diary
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In this nutrition activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will record their food consumption for one day, and then evaluate how their actual diet matched up with the recommended diet.
FlyBy Math: Distance-Rate-Time Problems in Air Traffic Control
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In this small-group activity, learners assume the roles of pilots, air traffic controllers, and NASA scientists to solve five Air Traffic Control (ATC) problems.
Nano Scavenger Hunt
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of PDF under Where's Nano? Activity) about identifying nanoscale objects and phenomena in today's world.
Treasures in the Rough
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In this archaeology activity, learners make observations and conduct an experiment to demonstrate the effect saltwater has on artifacts.
Sugar Crystal Challenge
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This lesson focuses on surface area and how the shape of sugar crystals may differ as they are grown from sugars of different coarseness.
Home Water Audit
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This activity offers learners and their families several ways to raise their awareness together about home water.