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In this activity, learners discover that training a robot can be hard work! Learners investigate how robots complete a task by following a list of sequential instructions.

In this activity, learners experiment with gear motion to understand how gears work to change the amount of force, speed, or direction of motion in machines.

In this activity, learners will engineer three different parachutes to test how well each one works.

This magic trick is based on how computers detect and correct data errors.

In this activity, learners will make a marionette puppet and put on a show. Learners will explore color, design, fabrication and storytelling through this activity.

In this activity, challenge learners to keep an ice cube from completely melting in 30 minutes. Learners engineer a box or wrap to prevent an ice cube from melting.

In this activity (on pages 11-14 of PDF), learners cut out pictures from magazines of foods that help make bones strong and glue the pictures to a paper bone.

Everybody loves messy science, and Flubber is a favorite of both COSI employees and guests!

Everybody loves bubbles, and this is the best bubble recipe ever!

This game uses a modified Uno deck to review concepts related to stem cell research and diabetes.

In this outdoor game, learners role play populations linked in a food chain.

In this design challenge activity, learners build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two “astronauts” when they land.

In this hands-on activity, learners build their own kaleidoscopes and explore how light can reflect of off surfaces such as mirrors, to produce beautiful patterns.

In this activity, learners explore how the shapes, sizes, and distances of land masses appear differently on two different models of Earth: an icosahedron and a flat map.

Learners explore the Bernoulli effect by building an airfoil (airplane wing) and making it fly.

In this activity, learners will turn an ordinary tray of sand into a desk-top garden for meditation.

In this activity, learners build a seesaw powered by magnets.

This activity provides a hands-on experience with a scale model, a relatively high viscosity fluid, and feeding behaviors.

In this activity, learners are challenged to create a parachute using easily sourced materials in order to transport a LEGO figure safely to the ground.

In this activity, learners make a Benham Top to explore visual illusions and optics.