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In this activity, learners try to put together toy bricks—wearing oven mitts on their hands! This activity shows learners how difficult it is to build small things when your tools are too big.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners mark their height on a height chart and discover how tall they are in nanometers.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners play a card game that explores different size scales--macro, micro and nano.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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This is a quick activity (on page 2 of the PDF under Gecko Feet Activity) about the forces of gravity and surface tension and how their behavior is influenced by size.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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This Exploratorium activity explores size and scale. Through four levels of screen sizes, learners can sort out objects of different sizes.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners examine nanoscale structures of common things.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a LEGO® structure while wearing mittens. This activity shows learners how difficult it is to build small things when your tools are too big.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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This is an activity in which learners will find that they can detect differences in concentration better with their nose (smelling) than with their eyes (seeing).

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes