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In this activity, learners will be working with a sort of scientific magic, capillary action! They will set up 3 cups of water of different colors, connect them with paper towels and wait.

Computers store drawings, photographs, and other pictures using only numbers. Through this activity, learners decode numbers to create pictures using the same process that computers use.

In this activity, learners design a crushing test and discover that identifying and controlling the variables may be difficult.

In this weather activity (page 1 of the PDF), learners will construct their very own anemometer to measure wind speed.

This is an activity (on page 2 of the PDF under Surface Area Activity) about surface area to volume ratio.

Why should we wear masks? Do masks work? Do some masks work better than others? Learners find out in this activity.

In this sensory activity, young learners explore chemical reactions by making their own play dough from home.

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.

This hands-on experiment will provide learners with an understanding of the issues that surround environmental cleanup.

In this physics activity, learners experiment with pulleys and find that they can decrease the effort needed when using a pulley to lift or move different loads.

In this outdoor activity, learners become beachcombers as they walk on a sandy beach in search of evidence of life.

In this activity learners will be creating art using a traditional Japanese art style.

In this activity, learners work in pairs to measure each other's ankles with lengths of string.

In this activity, learners create a CloudSpotter wheel and record the different types of clouds they observe twice daily over several days.

In this game, learners each represent a different organism in an environment. They build a web during the activity, and discover how all the players in an ecosystem depend on each other.

In this activity, learners discover the relationship between temperature and pressure in the lower atmospheres of Jupiter and Earth.

In this activity (posted on March 27, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a mini zoetrope, a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.

In this outdoor activity, learners investigate spider webs and feeding behavior, particularly how spiders trap food in their sticky silk webs while not getting stuck themselves.

In this activity, learners discover the difficulty of ocean exploration by human beings as they investigate water pressure.

Learners use their knowledge of color changes with red cabbage indicator to neutralize an acidic solution with a base and then neutralize a basic solution with an acid.