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In this activity, learners explore how their sense of smell affects their taste buds. Learners taste different flavored jelly beans while holding their nose.

In this activity, learners discover why some nanoscale science and technology is done in the controlled environment of a clean room, what clean rooms are like, and how scientists help keep the clean r

In this activity, learners sniff out scents hidden in balloons! After investigating, learners discover we sometimes can use another sense (smell) to detect things too small to see.

In this activity, learners work in teams to study the observation skills essential to scientific research.

In this family or group inquiry activity, learners use their senses to explore a local forest or woodland.

Your tongue can sense about 6 different flavors (salty, sweet, bitter, sour, umami/savory, and fat), but your nose provides a lot more "taste" information than you realize when you eat.

In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners investigate organisms that live along the ocean's rocky coast.

This is an activity (located on page 4 of the PDF under What's Nano? Activity) about size and scale.

This activity investigates how bark beetles can threaten forests by having learners estimate the number of infected trees from a photo.

Are balloons porous or non-porous? In this activity, learners watch an entertaining Mr. O video and conduct a simple experiment to find out.

In this activity (2nd activity on the page), learners explore how the nose is responsible for part of the flavor we taste in food.

In this activity about olfaction (7th activity on the page), learners use natural ingredients to concoct their own perfume.

In this two-part activity, learners use household items to smell the difference between some stereoisomers, or molecules which are mirror images of one another.

In this activity, learners follow a recipe to create play dough scented with fruit-flavored drink mix.

In this activity on page 9 of the PDF, learners test how flavoring extracts move through the walls of a balloon.

In this matchmaking activity (on page 2 of the PDF under GPS: Animal Scent Activity), learners will each have a scented cotton ball taped to their shoulder. The scent (e.g.

In this outdoor fall activity, learners find out what living in or under a layer of leaves is like.

In this activity, learners use household materials to investigate and explore their ability to smell an odor.

In this game, learners try to find nano-related objects on a game board. Learners investigate the different ways nano is in the world around us.

In this online activity, learners role-play as medics, treating a patient with missing organs. Learners select different organs, then drag them into the proper location in the patient's body.