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Shake and Match
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In this activity, learners create a hearing based memory game that they can share with friends.
Matter of Degree
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In two separate bags, learners mix water with Epsom salts and detergent.
Be A Pasta Food Scientist
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In this activity, learners of all ages can become food scientists by experimenting with flour and water to make basic pasta.
What Does Spit Do?
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Some animals can swallow food whole, but humans have to chew. In this activity, learners will investigate what saliva does chemically to food before we even swallow.
Active Graphs
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In this activity, learners track their movements with jumping and leaping graphs.
Make a Comet Model and Eat It!
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In this activity, learners build models of comets, using edible materials, to learn about comets' structure.
Gieant Sieve Sorter
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This Exploratorium activity explores size and scale. Through four levels of screen sizes, learners can sort out objects of different sizes.
Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt
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In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.
Finding Colors
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In this chemistry challenge, learners combine acids and bases in a universal indicator to create five different colors.
Radar Mapping: What's in the Box?
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In this activity, learners mimic remote sensing. Learners use a stick to measure the distance to a "planet surface" they cannot see, and create their own map of the landscape.
The Thousand-Yard Model
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This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.
The Watershed Connection
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In this activity, learners interact with a 3-D model of a watershed to better understand the interconnectedness of terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Using Chemical Change to Identify an Unknown
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In this activity, learners will develop a method to test five similar-looking powders (baking soda, baking powder, cream of tartar, detergent, and cornstarch) with four test liquids (water, vinegar, i
Number Sense and Computation: To Half or Half Not
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In this math lesson, learners use slices of bread and geoboards to explore several ways to divide a rectangle in half. Learners also identify equivalent fractions that represent one-half.
Make Pan Pipes
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This is a simple activity for learners to create a traditional musical instrument. Pan Pipes have developed all over the world in different cultures, from South America to Greece and China.
Paper Mache Dinosaurs
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In this activity (located on page 6 of PDF), learners observe and reproduce the distinctive physical features (i.e. plates, sharp spikes, long necks, deep jaws, claws) of their favorite dinosaurs.
Powder Particulars
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In this introductory activity and demonstration, learners are introduced to the concept that different substances react chemically in characteristic ways.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Constellations
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This chocolate chip cookie recipe includes templates for baking night sky constellations of the season right on top! Two templates are included, one for 9pm mid-April, and one for 10pm mid-July.
Carrying Charges: Testing for Conductivity
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Learners are challenged to create solutions that conduct electricity and make a buzzer buzz (or an LED light up).
Pop Can "Hero Engine"
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In this activity, learners build water-propelled engines from soft drink cans.