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In this arts and crafts activity about animals and animal characteristics, learners will design animal hats and role-play as animals.

In this activity, learners use their imaginations and experiment with different materials to create bug hats.

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

In this classic memory game (on pages 37-45 of PDF), learners turn over tiles to reveal images on the back.

Learners make a refrigerator that works without electricity. The pot-in-pot refrigerator works by evaporation: a layer of sand is placed between two terra cotta pots and thoroughly soaked with water.

Learners explore the Bernoulli effect by building an airfoil (airplane wing) and making it fly.

Learners design their own experiment to investigate how pollution diffuses through ground material.

In this activity (on pages 49-54 of PDF), learners play with tangrams, a set of triangles, squares and a parallelogram that can combine into a larger square as well as all sorts of other shapes.

Learners work in groups to construct bridges using stale marshmallows and toothpicks.

Learners design different shaped bandages for different purposes. First, they draw their designs on paper.

Learners design, build, and test models of "dragon boats" made from up to three milk cartons.

This activity (on pages 21-32 of PDF) has learners act out several classic brain teasers.

In this activity, leaners explore building techniques by recreating the story of The Three Little Pigs.

Learners create an Incan counting device called a quipu (pronounced kee-poo).

Learners make their own simple slide rules out of paper and learn how they work.

In this activity about encryption, learners cut out a secret decoder badge from a handout and use it to encode messages to each other.

In this activity, learners explore color, light and shadow by creating their own puppets to hold in front of a light source.

In this activity, early learners combine pre-cut recognizable shapes and their own abstract ideas to make representational pictures (e.g. houses, trees, shoes).

This is a tape and glue activity in which learners make binoculars that they can decorate and then use to go bird watching.

This is an activity in which learners explore the effects of gravity, motion and momentum while creating art.