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Exploring Structures: Butterfly
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In this activity, learners investigate how some butterfly wings get their color.
Turbidity
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This is an activity about turbidity, or the amount of sediment suspended in water.
Iodine Investigators!
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In this activity on page 7 of the PDF (Chemistry—It’s Elemental), learners use iodine to identify foods that contain starch.
Water Cycle in a Bag
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In this activity, learners create a biosphere in a baggie.
Solving Dissolving
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The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá is a sink hole, or well, containing groundwater. In this activity, learners create their own cenote using chalk, limestone, acids, and rain water.
Create a Mangrove Tree
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In this group activity, learners will explore the characteristics, functions and uniqueness of the mangrove tree.
Sand, Plants and Pants
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In this activity, learners explore how the application of nano-sized particles or coatings can change a bigger material’s properties.
Colors in Nature
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In this activity, learners create colorful bead bracelets to wear outside while searching for matching colors in plants. Learners will be surprised by the variety of colors in nature.
Recycling Paper
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In this crafty chemistry activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners make their own paper from used paper they may have otherwise thrown away.
Show Your Colors!
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In this family or group activity, learners conduct a chromatography experiment to reveal the colors that leaves "hide" under their green pigments.
Soak It Up: Understanding Amphibian Permeability
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In this activity, learners will discover how the thin layers of amphibians' skin allow water and other chemicals to pass through it.
Butterflies in Space
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The Butterflies in Space Teacher's Guide uses "life in space" to encourage learners to conduct their own open-ended scientific investigations.
Nature Drawing
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In this family or group activity, learners create a nature journal by visiting a local nature center or backyard, observing creatures in their natural habitats, and sketching what they see.
Water Ways
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In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners explore surface tension by adding pennies to cups which are "full" of plain water or soapy water.
The Old White Sheet Trick: Light and Insect Behavior
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In this outdoor, nighttime activity, learners gather around a brightly lit, white surface and study the behavior of nocturnal animals attracted to the light, particularly night fliers.
Biomimicry: Synthetic Gecko Tape Through Nanomolding
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In this activity/demo, learners examine a synthetic gecko tape with micron sized hairs that mimics the behavior of the gecko foot.
I Spy Nano!
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In this game, learners try to find nano-related objects on a game board. Learners investigate the different ways nano is in the world around us.
Place Matters: How Sound Changes Due to Environment
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This is an online simulation of how sound changes due to environment. How does place--like a cave, a pier, or a forest--affect certain sounds?
Weather Vane and Anemometer
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In this meteorology activity, learners construct simple devices to measure the direction and speed of wind.
Photosynthesis and Transpiration
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In this activity on page 7 of the PDF (Plants—The Green Machines), learners examine the effects that light and air have on green plants.