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In this activity, learners make "solar cookies," edible models of the Sun's outer layers using sugar cookies and toppings.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how their sense of smell affects their taste buds. Learners taste different flavored jelly beans while holding their nose.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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Learners design their own experiment to investigate whether the temperature of the surrounding water affects the rate at which the colored coating dissolves from an M&M.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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This hands-on activity lets participant explore chemical reactions as they create a soda explosion with lots of bubbles. The bubbles in soda are made of carbon dioxide gas.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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Your tongue can sense about 6 different flavors (salty, sweet, bitter, sour, umami/savory, and fat), but your nose provides a lot more "taste" information than you realize when you eat.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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In this activity, learners use Starburst® candy to sort, classify, compare, and graph. Learners grab a handful of one-inch candy squares, sort them by color, graph the candy, and discuss the results.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners design and build a NASA rover using raw pasta and candy with a limited imaginary budget.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this Energy and Environment activity (page 9 of the PDF), learners calculate the mass of a piece of gum, compare it to the mass of the gum's packaging, and then create a bar graph of the results.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners touch supercooled water drops with an ice crystal and trigger the water drops to freeze instantly.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners place an M&M candy in water and observe what happens. The sugar-and-color coating dissolves and spreads out in a circular pattern around the M&M.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate the movement of water into and out of a polymer. Learners test the diffusion of water through gummy bears, which are made of sugar and gelatin (a polymer).

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners make a model of the solid Earth's layers that's good enough to eat! Learners use tasty foodstuffs to simulate Earth's inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover the principles of edible glass by making a supersaturated sugar solution.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this interactive and informative group activity, learners use packages of M&M's to illustrate the difference between weather and climate.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this simulation, learners act out each digestive function of the organs, tissues, and cells in the digestive tract.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In the related activity called "Colors Collide or Combine," learners are intrigued by the apparent "line" that forms where colors from M&M coatings meet but do not mix.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners analyze candy-coated sweets using chromatography. Learners use this method to separate the various dyes used to make colored candy.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners design their own experiment to determine which M&M color dissolves the fastest in water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this math lesson, learners are introduced to proportional reasoning through modeling, sharing, and questioning techniques.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours