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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.

In this activity (on pages 41-47 of PDF), learners explore tesselating geometric patterns (repeated shapes, similar to the art of M.C. Escher).

This activity (on page 2) explores how sensing is part of robotics. Learners try tying their shoes with different constraints.

Make a copy of the first stethoscope with only a cardboard tube! René Laennec invented the first stethoscope in 1819 using an actual paper tube!

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

In this engineering design activity, learners will design, test, and build a “haunting machine” to solve a Sherlockian mystery.

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

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

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

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

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.

In this activity (on page 2), one person "programs" the other like a robot to move through a space, trying to get them to avoid obstacles and reach a goal.

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

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.