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This is a simple activity fully driven by imagination. Using materials from the home, toys, or items from nature, learners create their own world to play with.

In this outdoor activity and bingo-like game, learners explore why and how seeds spread far from the plants that produce them.

This activity explores the main algorithms that are used as the basis for searching on computers, using different variations on the game of battleships.

In this math activity (Page 12 of the Play Ball! PDF), learners play a game of "soccer" and analyze the results of the game.

This activity introduces the idea that computer scientists measure information by how "surprising" a message is.

In this hands-on engineering project, kids use two simple machines, levers and inclined planes, to construct their own pinball machines.

In this math activity (Page 14 of the Play Ball! PDF), learners play a game of "basketball" and analyze the results of the game.

This activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Exercise and Memory) is a full inquiry investigation into the effects of exercise on short term memory.

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 board game, learners explore the origins of meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites as well as the their characteristics and importance. They also discover some misconceptions about meteors.

Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.

In this game, learners use clues to identify mystery shapes. Use everyday objects (like from the pantry) as the shapes.

This game is like regular bingo, except the clues are sounds.

In this tabletop board game, players will represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.

In this math game (Page 17 of the Are You Game? PDF), learners investigate probability by tossing coins.

In this "game," learners explore and relate the evolution of stars to a Navajo creation story. The story is written on a series of cards, which are laid on a table as the story is told.

This activity lets learners participate in the process of reconstructing a phylogenetic tree and introduces them to several core bioinformatics concepts, particularly in relation to evolution.

In this activity, learners take on the role of a carbon atom and record which reservoirs in the carbon cycle they visit.

In this game (on pages 14-21), learners explore how each human being inherits genetic traits such as eye color.

In this math activity (Page 10 of the Play Ball! PDF), learners play a game of "football" and analyze the results of the game.