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Create 3D glasses and use them to explore color, light and optics. Fool your brain into 'seeing' three dimensions on a flat surface!

Learners add drops of four liquids (water, alcohol, salt water, and detergent solution) to different surfaces and observe the liquids' behavior.

Learners see that a carrot slice sinks in fresh water and floats in saltwater.

This is an activity about our sense of smell and how it compares to sharks' super noses. Learners will create varying solutions of water and perfume.

In this activity, learners use squares to figure out how many border tiles are needed to enclose different areas.

Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.

This is an activity about lung capacity. Learners will measure their own lung capacity using a homemade spirometer.

Space telescopes can offer us better, clearer views of the universe (and of our own planet) than Earth-based telescopes can, but getting these large, delicate pieces of equipment into orbit is tricky.

This is an activity in which learners create magic wands from a variety of materials making their choices by considering what kind of magic they want to make.

This activity demonstrates the importance of wearing a helmet to protect the brain. An egg is used to symbolize a head with the shell as the skull and the inside of the egg as the brain.

Learners use their knowledge of color changes with red cabbage indicator to neutralize an acidic solution with a base and then neutralize a basic solution with an acid.

In this activity, learners make flipbooks of drawings showing the progression of a Total Solar Eclipse.

Learners mix a variety of substances with red cabbage juice. The juice changes color to indicate whether each substance is an acid or a base.

Learners make bell bracelets, place them on their wrists or ankles, and then dance to the rhythms and sounds the bells make. Many cultures use ankle or wrist bells to make music during dancing.

This activity (on page 3 of the PDF) has learners create models of butterfly wings.

In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners use art supplies to build models of insects, both real or imagined.

In this activity, learners make a model of a one-way heart valve to investigate how a heart controls the direction of blood flow.

In this activity, learners will create their own simple shadow puppets, and experiment with light and shadow while playing with them.

What keeps bubbles and other things, like airplanes, floating or flying in the air?

In this activity, learners construct a cereal chain as a model of how proteins are made in the cell.