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Number Sense and Computation: Soak It Up
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In this math lesson, learners compare products to determine the best product.

Saldo Island: An Unfair Game
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In this environmental science activity about biodiversity, learners play a game to discover the effects of non-native species on an ecosystem.

Geometry: Let's Face It
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In this math lesson, learners identify, describe, and construct the five regular polyhedra.

Counting With Quadrants
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Millions of organisms can live in and around a body of water.

Whale Communication Hide and Seek
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In this activity, learners pretend that they are orcas and search for their "pods" using Morse code.

Make a Tikiville Teepee
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In this great hands-on activity, learners use patterns to make a teepee from newspaper that they sit inside.

Mystery Powders
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In this activity on page 2 of the PDF (Get Cooking With Chemistry), learners conduct chemical tests on certain powders used in cooking.

Egg-cellent Landing
Learners recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and learners perform several velocity calculations.

Erosion and Floods
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In this activity, learners create models of erosion and floods and learn to recognize both in their environment.

Make a Dinosaur Model
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons, anatomy, and locomotion. Learners compare and contrast dinosaur skeletons and drawings.

What Shape Is It?
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In this activity, learners determine the shape of an unseen object by bouncing a ball off the object.
The Earth's Timeline
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In this group activity, learners will mark important developments of life on Earth on a timeline (each foot in length representing 200 million years).
Soaring Towers: Building with Recycled Materials
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In this activity, learners will build the highest tower they can out of recycled materials.

Bottle Cars
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In this activity, learners explore motion, energy, and electricity by constructing bottle cars that run on motors.

Wetlands
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Learners create a model of a wetland to observe how it absorbs and filters water from the environment.

See the Light
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In this three-part activity, learners conduct simple experiments to see how light refracts and reflects, and how colors of light affect what we see.

Inside DNA
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In this activity (on pages 34-39), learners make a fairly detailed model of DNA using licorice and gumdrops.

Hunting Minibeasts
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In this activity (p.6-10 of PDF), learners use different methods for hunting minibeasts (bugs). Learners can either make traps or simply look for minibeasts under stones and logs.

Spectroscope
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In this activity (posted on March 12, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a spectroscope, a tool used to analyze light and color.

Pico Cricket Compass
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Learners can program a compass to draw a circle by itself using a Pico Cricket, some Legos, and lots of tape! Pico Cricket is required.