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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.

This lesson focuses on how materials behave differently as their surface area increases.

In this archaeology activity, learners consider ways in which excavating an underwater site is different from excavating a terrestrial site.

In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.

In this multi-part activity learners examine non-point water pollution.

In this demonstration, learners discover that nanoparticles behave differently, in part because they have a high surface area to volume ratio.

Learners construct an electricity-generating wind turbine out of a plastic bottle.

In this activity, learners conduct a simulation exercise related to public key encryption and try to intercept a message sent between two learners.

Visitors add drops of copper sulfate solution onto a steel nail. They observe the nail change color from silver to brown as the copper plates onto the nail.

In this two part activity, learners become draft detectives by constructing their own draft catchers to detect drafts around windows or doors.

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) is a cloning method that involves transferring a nucleus from a somatic cell of the individual to be cloned to an enucleated egg.

In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

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

In this activity, learners participate in a scavenger hunt, searching for and recognizing minerals and products that contain minerals.

Visitors test solutions of water, sugar, salt, and hydrochloric acid and the solids salt and sugar. They clip leads from the hand generator to wires immersed in each substance.

In this activity (on pages 18-29) learners explore the impact of the March 24, 1989 oil spill in Alaska caused by the Exxon Valdez tanker.

Visitors prepare six solutions combining vinegar and ammonia that range incrementally from acid (all vinegar) to base (all ammonia).

This is an activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under Water Clean-up Activity) about the use of reduction agents to decontaminate ground water.

In this activity, learners explore the economics of coal mining as you they use fake money to purchase mining tools, attempt to carefully mine their cookies, sell their chocolate chip ore, and try to

In this activity, learners explore how the power of the sun can be harnessed to heat and cool a building.