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In this activity (on pages 25-32 of PDF), learners make models of the inner ear out of pipe cleaners.

The popular sudoku puzzles use numbers, but the game could played with any set of 9 different objects!

In this activity, learners investigate the sense of hearing and plan and conduct their own experiments.

In this optics activity, learners examine how a transparent material such as glass or water can actually reflect light better than any mirror.

Using indirect methods, learners determine the shape and size of a piece of carpet hidden under a piece of plywood.

In this activity, learners construct a device that allows them to view 2-D images in 3-D.

Learners make their own paper using old newspaper. Learners can make their paper colorful by adding construction paper.

Learners make a simple battery out of "sandwiches" of aluminum foil, pennies, and a salt water-soaked paper towel.

Learners design their own experiment to explore the permeability of different materials such as soil, sand, gravel, and marbles.

Play-Doh is conductive! Use the semiconductive qualities of Play-Doh to make your own squeezable instrument. Pico Cricket is required.

Learners use a simple process to extract DNA from strawberries.

Learners observe a sealed container holding a clear colorless liquid. They shake the container and the fluid turns blue. When allowed to sit for a few moments, the fluid turns colorless again.

In this activity (on pages 22-24 of the PDF), learners match extreme enviroments with life forms they support.

Learners observe an electrochemical cell constructed from a small jar containing zinc and copper strips immersed in separate solutions. The strips are connected to a motor that turns a small fan.

In this activity, learners use tinfoil to build and test their own boats - which designs will float, and which will sink?

In this math lesson, learners rotate through various centers while comparing and ordering objects according to length.

In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.

This activity explores the basic workings of a siphon, which is the core technology that makes toilets work.

In this nutrition and estimation activity (page 12 of PDF), learners estimate serving sizes of different foods and compare their estimates to serving size information provided on nutrition food labels

In this activity, learners set up a night time insect observation station with a light and sheet.