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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.

Fat is a very important component in our diet. It's the most efficient source of energy in our bodies, and plays an important role in the flavor of foods.

In this activity, learners hook up a hair to a lever system and create a hair hygrometer to measure changes in humidity.

In this hands-on botany activity, learners sprout vegetables in film canisters.

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.

In this activity on page 3 of the PDF, learners visualize the relative size and structural differences between microbes that have the potential to cause disease.

In this activity, learners play a game that models what happens as stem cells differentiate into different cell types.

The beautiful iridescent colors of a bubble in a can! With this Exploratorium Science Snack, create beautiful soap films on the open end of a can to see beautiful rainbows of color.

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

In this activity, learners use food scraps from the kitchen to grow new vegetables.

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

In this trick, hold your hand over a burning candle without getting burned, by reflecting and transmitting the light of two candles. This activity is best suited as a demonstration.

Create an instrument that you don't play--you just listen to it through tubes of various lengths.

This resource contains several mini-explorations using a slide projector as a light source to investigate light and the properties of images.

In this activity, learners construct a cereal chain as a model of how proteins are made in the cell.

In this activity on page 1 of the PDF, learners compare the relative sizes of biological objects (like DNA and bacteria) that can't be seen by the naked eye.

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

An ordinary camera has a lens that makes an image on film. In a pinhole camera, a small hole replaces the lens.

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 trap a thin layer of air between two pieces of Plexiglas to produce rainbow-colored interference patterns.