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Erosion and Floods
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In this activity, learners create models of erosion and floods and learn to recognize both in their environment.
Exploring the Ocean with Robots
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In this activity, learners are introduced to robotic submarines called gliders. Learners make “gliders” from plastic syringes and compare these to Cartesian bottles and plastic bubbles.
Pocket Solar System: Make a Scale Model
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This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners build a scale model of the universe with little more than adding machine tape.
Rutherford's Enlarged: A Content-Embedded Activity to Teach about Nature of Science
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This paper describes a working-model demonstration of Ernest Rutherford's 1911 experiment about the nature of atoms.
Investigating Convection
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This experiment is designed to illustrate how fluids, including water, have the ability to flow.
The Thousand-Yard Model
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This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.
Build A Hydrometer
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In this activity, learners will explore how a hydrometer works by building a working model and conducting experiments.