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In this activity, learners explore how nanotechnology is being used to create new types of protective fabrics.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this chemistry activity, learners use guar gum to make slime. Use this activity to introduce learners to polymers, viscosity, and colloids.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this up-cycling activity, learners recycle plastic bags and repurpose them into useful wallets.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use chemistry to “self-assemble” gummy shapes. Learners discover that self-assembly is a process by which molecules and cells form themselves into functional structures.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners mix white craft glue and borax solution together to produce a surprising new material: GOOP!

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a paper model of a polymer, then make Silly Putty, an actual polymer.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners compare the properties of two balls that appear identical. One ball bounces, while the other ball "thuds." The “bounce” ball is made of the polymer polybutadiene (-C4H4-).

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - adult Under 5 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 4-5), learners make fake snow by adding water to the super-absorbant chemical from diapers, sodium polyacrylate.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore polymer structure and their ability to reform around objects by attempting to stab a wooden skewer through a balloon without popping it.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this playful, goopy activity, learners mix two liquids to create a solid (that sometimes acts like a liquid ), using basic household materials such as borax and glue.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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This is written as a display, but can easily be adapted to a hands-on activity. Learners discover how all the parts of a diaper work together to keep babies dry and comfortable.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover how a super-absorbing material can be used to move a straw.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a gelatinous slime using guar gum powder and borax. Educators can use this simple activity to introduce learners to colloids.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity learners compare the bounciness of warm and cold racquetballs to see if temperature makes a difference in how well they bounce.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Heat makes some materials expand, and it makes others shrink.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this hands-on activity, learners use heat to shrink samples of polystyrene plastic (#6 recycle code). Learners compare the size and shape of the plastic pieces before and after shrinking.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - adult Under 5 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 thread gumdrops together to make a model of a polymer.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners (with adult help and supervision) investigate how heat affects polystyrene plastic.

free Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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During this activity, learners will make different versions of "ooze" using varied proportions of detergent and glue.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes