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In this activity, learners conduct a simulation exercise related to public key encryption and try to intercept a message sent between two learners.

free Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners help a poor cartographer color in the countries on a map, making sure each country is colored a different color than any of its neighbors.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners listen to songs and decode hidden messages based on the same principle as a modem. As a final challenge, learners decode the binary messages in a music video.

free Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners use a model for how fishing affects marine life populations, and will construct explanations for one of the reasons why fish populations are declining.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a black box device that serves as an excellent analogy to Rutherford's famous experiment in which he deduced the existence of the atomic nucleus.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this puzzle, learners investigate the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners are challenged to eat some candy as a cell would need to as well as to think about some of the problems that arise when a cell ingests food.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 14 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this design challenge activity, learners invent an emergency shelter that can fit a person and is sturdy and quick to build.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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This activity about cryptographic techniques illustrates how to accomplish a simple, but nevertheless seemingly impossible task—making a fair, random choice by flipping a coin between two people who d

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners use pegs (like tent pegs) and string or elastic to simulate drill sites and roads in Northern Canada.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes