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How to Learn Basic Shapes by Making a Shape Mobile
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In this activity, caregivers and young learners work together to craft and talk about shapes and relative positions of such shapes by creating a mobile.
Polarized Light
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In this optics activity, learners experiment with polarizers (small dark rectangles) to examine light intensity.
Find Someone: Use Math to Learn About Friends
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Create a “Find Someone” list, with about 10 items, each containing a shape, number, or measurement. Can you find someone in the group with hair about 4 inches long? Someone wearing parallel lines?

Tessellations
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In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.

Crazy Shapes
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In this activity, learners cut a shape into two equal sized pieces and use their knowledge of geometry and space to prove that the two parts are equal.
Needlework Designs
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In this math activity, learners create symmetrical designs for paper models of special blouses known as huipiles.

Scale Models
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In this activity, learners explore the relative sizes and distances of objects in the solar system.

Castles Inside and Out
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In this three-day lesson, learners identify two-dimensional shapes used in castle construction, create a castle collage using assorted shapes, and design tapestries using repeated patterns of color, s

Mountain Rescue Mission
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In this math activity, learners play a game that helps reinforce learners' understanding of the coordinate system.

Subtracta's Dog
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In this math activity related to volume, learners use problem solving skills to calculate and build a model house for Minus the dog.

100 Puzzles
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In this activity, learners find as many combinations of a hundred as they can using various puzzle pieces from a hundred square grid paper.
The Same Names
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In this math activity, learners make and explore patterns using the letters in their names, a grid, and some colors.

Papel Picado
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En esta actividad, los aprendices exploran la simetría haciendo papel picado, una decoración común en México para las celebraciones.

Burst a Bubble
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In this activity, learners will create their own bubble solution. Learners will explore chemistry, geometry and trial and error through this activity.

Look Into Infinity
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Learners use two mirrors to explore how images of images of images can repeat forever.

Castle Basics
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In this four-day lesson, learners identify three-dimensional forms in castle design, research different parts of the castle with a focus on their uses, and design and enlarge a banner for the great ha

Can I Get Some Pi?
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In this activity, learners will explore pi and the mathematical relationships between a circle's diameter, circumference, and radius.

My Solar System
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In this online activity, learners build their own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet.

Paint by the Numbers
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In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

Boredom Buster
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In this Cyberchase activity, use grid coordinates to share secret pictures with a friend. Color squares of a grid to make a picture (like a smiley face) that you keep hidden from the other person.