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In this activity, learners explore how ordinary marshmallows expand when heated in a microwave.

In this activity, learners conduct a simple test to find their blind spot.

In this quick optics activity, learners use a dim point of light (a disassembled Mini MagLite and dowel set-up) to cast a shadow of the blood supply in their retina onto the retina itself.

Play with a slinky and make transverse waves. In this simple Exploratorium Science Snack, learners will experience making waves and will learn the different parts of a wave.

Create a simple dual pendulum and get them to swing in identical ways. This is a simple, low cost, activity produced by the Exploratorium.

In this activity, learners explore motion and airflow by setting two aluminum cans on their side and blowing air in-between them.

Sound can travel through a variety of media.

We're told from a young age that we have 5 senses, but we have many more. One of which is our awareness of our own body part's orientation and position.

We don't normally view people upside down and so our brains aren't accustomed to it.

This science activity demonstrates the dominant eye phenomena. What does your brain do when it sees two images that conflict?

Known as the waterfall effect, this activity demonstrates adaptation in our visual system.

Put a string around your head, and play it! Learn about vibration, sounds, and pitch.

We listen to stereo music systems, tv's, and radios because it simulates being where the sound originates.

With a magnet, iron fillings, and a bottle, you can create a cool demonstration about magnetic lines of force: the fillings will arrange themselves within the magnet's magnetic field.

Listen to the beat of gravity. By taking two strings with weights tied to them at different, yet uniform intervals, you can hear the uniformity (and rhythm) of gravity's accelerating pull.

What happens when two wave pulses meet in the middle? Send waves down a spring to watch them travel and interact.

Can you deceive your eyes? When your eyes work normally, you see a nice 3 dimensional picture, but what happens when each eye sees something different?

This perception trick focuses on conflicting information to the brain...instead of trying to see two images, you're trying to get a bright spot by overlapping the image you see through two tubes.

See what force a magnet has on a wire that has current running through it: will it push it, pull it, or will nothing happen? This is the foundation of a simple electric motor.

If you had a long tube with a 5 millimeter wide slit, would you see the entire Golden Gate Bridge?