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Learners explore three-dimensional geometric frames including cubes and tetrahedrons, as they create bubble wands with pipe cleaners and drinking straws.

In this art meets science activity, learners pack silver, ball-shaped ornaments in a single layer in a box to create an array of spherical reflectors.

In this optics activity, demonstrate diffraction using a candle or a small bright flashlight bulb and a slide made with two pencils.

In this optics/mathematics activity, learners use two hinged mirrors to create a kaleidoscope that shows multiple images of an object.

In this activity, learners make their own heat waves in an aquarium.

In this activity, learners make a photographic image—without a camera!

The Ancient Egyptians used a naturally-occurring salt from the banks of the Nile River, called natron, to mummify their dead.

In this activity about light and refraction, learners discover how a lens creates an image that hangs in midair.

In this optics activity, learners examine how polarized light can reveal stress patterns in clear plastic.

In this long-term activity, learners make a home for a colorful community of microorganisms.

In this activity, learners make a photographic image--without a camera!

In this activity, learners burn a peanut, which produces a flame that can be used to boil away water and count the calories contained in the peanut.

Why does milk make some people sick? In this activity learners explore this question and explore the chemistry of milk, and our bodies!

In this demonstration, learners investigate mass, gravity, and acceleration by dropping a wooden bar with a balloon attached to its underside, a mass suspended from it by rubber bands, and a sharp-poi

In this math activity related to light, learners explore why a light, such as a candle or a streetlight, looks dimmer the farther away from it we get.

In this activity, learners use gelatin as a lens to investigate the properties of laser light.

In this activity about chemistry and electricity, learners form a battery by placing their hands onto plates of different metals.

In this STEAM activity, learners create a "pixel tube" to explore reflections of light and color mixing.

In this optics activity, learners discover that not all shadows are black. Learners explore human color perception by using colored lights to make additive color mixtures.