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By making models of light waves with paper, learners can understand why different colors appear in bubbles.

Discover how the salt in soil affects plant growth with a few seeds, some cotton, and salt. In this hands-on activity, you will plant seeds in 2 different kinds of soil, containing more or less salt.

In this Cyberchase activity, learners use numbers to create CyberOlympic teams with the fastest times.

In this activity, learners make a camouflaged butterfly to hide outside for others to find.

In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

In this activity, the learner will explore hand eye coordination while using a variation of the ball and cup game.

In this activity, learners will predict the size of a giant scale model of a comb or other rectangular object, then make one. If you tripled the size of a dollar bill, could you sit on it?

In this activity, learners will examine various world data maps to combine the information and predict which areas could be tropical rainforests.

In this activity, learners engineer a paper helicopter that spins to the ground when dropped.

Put the math of measurement, numbers, and everyday life into improvisational skits.

Things that are different sizes and stiffness vibrate differently, and in this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll see how rings of various diameters react to vibration and external forces.

In this activity, learners create a kind of balance device using a wire coat hanger, some string, and paper cups.

In this math activity, learners play a game and identify patterns with fun moves and sounds. Discover how dancing and signing involve patterns.

Do grapes, yes the grapes from the grocery store, move in the presence of a very strong magnet?

Sound changes pitch relative to how you or the source of the sound is moving. Use this simple activity developed by the Exploratorium to experience the Doppler Effect yourself!

In this activity, learners cutout a set of shape finder templates to explore shapes in the world around them.

A group of 6 learners works together as a team with each learner performing a different role. Together, they need to maneuver a die through a maze.