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In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners work with an adult to build a rocket and launcher out of a plastic 2-liter bottle, flexible plastic hose, plastic tubing, toilet paper tube, and duct tape.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners compare the weight of equal volumes of wax, water, and clay. Learners discover that since the wax weighs less than an equal volume of water, it is less dense than water and will float.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners experiment and observe how the color of materials that cover the Earth affects the amounts of sunlight our planet absorbs.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity described on pages 2-3 of the PDF, participants debate whether there there's life elsewhere in the universe.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 14 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this indoor or outdoor water activity, learners pour water from small cups to large cups and containers. In doing so, they discover water takes the shape of its container.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 6 30 to 45 minutes
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In this Bob the Builder(TM)-themed activity, learners go on a nature walk outside and describe what they observe using their senses.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 6 30 to 45 minutes
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In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity on page 24, learners perform experiments to examine whether or not trash can float, blow around, or wash away.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this water activity, learners test which objects float and which sink. Learners discover that objects behave differently in water.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 6 30 to 45 minutes
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In this tabletop board game, players will represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners listen to and try to decipher a radio message that was sent from Earth to possible intelligent civilizations.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners will create their own lava lamps. Learners will explore density, effervescence and chemistry through this activity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, students will learn some key information about a San Francisco native animal and then write a firsthand account of their experience from the perspective of that animal in the time be

free Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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This activity attempts to clear up the common misconception that deserts are always hot, totally dry, and uninhabitable.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners build their your own seismograph with household materials to document shaking.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity about archaeology, learners will explore different Egyptian hieroglyphs and recognize their meanings and uses.

free Ages 4 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners examine ways that Native Americans of the Southwest express their relationship with nature through art.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners build one or more edible coral polyps and place them together to form a colony.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (located on page 2), learners will construct tiny model geysers out of film canisters, warm water, and antacid seltzer tablets.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes