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In this activity, learners will use Google Sky to observe features of the night sky and share their observations.

free Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners conduct a simulation exercise related to public key encryption and try to intercept a message sent between two learners.

free Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners use shop tools and various materials to construct a magnetic spinner and a compass.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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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

Over $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this two-day activity (on pages 16-22), learners use a process like that of the Yoruba people of Nigeria to create an African symbol on cloth.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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Space telescopes can offer us better, clearer views of the universe (and of our own planet) than Earth-based telescopes can, but getting these large, delicate pieces of equipment into orbit is tricky.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will explore coding by arranging words and phrases to create an order of operations in this low tech version of computer programming.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners help a poor cartographer color in the countries on a map, making sure each country is colored a different color than any of its neighbors.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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Computers store drawings, photographs, and other pictures using only numbers. Through this activity, learners decode numbers to create pictures using the same process that computers use.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under GEMS Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into technology design and testing.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this puzzle, learners investigate the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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Data in computers is stored and transmitted as a series of zeros and ones. Learners explore how to represent numbers using just these two symbols, through a binary system of cards.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct a robot-like hand to demonstrate how data is collected when using robotic technology.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (posted on March 27, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a mini zoetrope, a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity related to computer programming, learners give directions to a "robot" (either an adult or another learner) and find out which instructions the robot is able to follow, and how their

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners listen to and try to decipher a radio message that was sent from Earth to possible intelligent civilizations.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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This activity (on pages 38-43) has learners simulate the way scientists track and map the movement of otters in the wild using radio trackers.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners experience some of the challenges of "tele-operating" a robotic vehicle on another planet when they design and execute a series of commands to guide a human "rover" through

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Learners construct one or more of the following kinds of sundials: a shadow plot, a horizontal sundial, and a diptych sundial.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 14 1 to 7 days
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Learners create an Incan counting device called a quipu (pronounced kee-poo).

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes