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Exploring Forces: Gravity
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In this nanoscience activity, learners discover that it's easy to pour water out of a regular-sized cup, but not out of a miniature cup.
Design a Parachute
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After a discussion about what a parachute is and how it works, learners create parachutes using different materials that they think will work best.
Parachute Design
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In this activity, learners design and build their own parachute using household materials with the goal of landing their passenger safely on a target.
What's in a Penny?
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In this chemistry activity, learners use chemical reactions to observe the composition of an alloy.
This Spud’s for You
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Use a homemade potato launcher to explore air pressure. This activity includes simple instructions on how to build a homemade propulsion pipe using pipe, a wooden dowel and duct tape.
Air Pressure
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In this experiment, learners use a blow dryer and water bottle to observe and record changes in air pressure caused by changes in temperature.
Stomp Rockets
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In this activity, learners will build a stomp-powered launcher to blast off paper rockets they design. Materials can be found at a local hardware store or you may already have them at home.
Stuck on You: Adhesion
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Learners explore water adhesion and learn about why water molecules are more strongly attracted to some substances than others.
Design and Build a Wind Vane
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In this activity, learners design and build a simple wind vane —one of the oldest kinds of weather tools— and use it to show wind direction.
Acid Rain Eats Stone!
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This display shows the dangers of acid rain on buildings and other structures as two concrete bunny rabbits are disintegrated by sulfuric acid. Learners scrape chalk onto the concrete bunnies.
Squidgy Slime
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In this chemistry activity, learners transform two ingredients (4% polyvinyl alcohol solution and 4% borax solution) into gooey slime.
Weather Vane and Anemometer
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In this meteorology activity, learners construct simple devices to measure the direction and speed of wind.
Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
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In this activity, learners practice the steps involved in a scientific investigation while learning why ice formations on land (not those on water) will cause a rise in sea level upon melting.
Rubber Band Boat
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In this activity, learners build styrofoam boats powered by twisted rubber bands.
Clipper Creations
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In this activity, learners create a working model of a nail clipper. This activity helps learners learn the basic principles of simple machines, engineering design and model building.
Ships Ahoy!
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The goal of this activity is to design the fastest sailboat or one that carries the most treasure.
Shake the Bag Ice Cream
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In this activity, learners will experiment with salt and ice in order to turn a bag of ingredients into ice cream.
Make Your Own Mini Mini Golf Course
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Build your own Mini Mini Golf Course and learn about hands-on building and design, basic circuitry, motion modules and more!
Light Bulb Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore the difference between compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs and traditional incandescent bulbs.
Bag of Bones
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In this activity, learners will use cereal to conduct an experiment and investigate how decreased bone density is related to increased risk of bone fracture.