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Animal Attraction
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Investigate a flower's power of marketing by making an imitation flower that successfully signals a bee (or other pollinator of your choice) to visit.
Wiggly Water
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This is a simple and fun activity for learners to explore water and colors.
Soap Bubble Shapes
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Learners explore three-dimensional geometric frames including cubes and tetrahedrons, as they create bubble wands with pipe cleaners and drinking straws.
Seeing 3D
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Create 3D glasses and use them to explore color, light and optics. Fool your brain into 'seeing' three dimensions on a flat surface!
Colors Collide or Combine
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Learners place multiple M&M's in a plate of water to watch what happens as the candies dissolve.
Traveling Through Different Liquids
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Learners observe and record what happens when they manipulate bottles containing a liquid (water or corn syrup) and one or more objects (screw, nail, paper clip).
Bubble Tray
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In this activity, learners use simple materials to create giant bubbles.
Exploring How Liquids Behave
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Learners apply their knowledge from a previous study to identify different liquids--water, corn syrup, and vegetable oil.
The Liquid Rainbow
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Learners are challenged to discover the relative densities of colored liquids to create a rainbow pattern in a test tube.
Exploring Liquids
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Young learners investigate and observe the properties of three liquids -- water, vegetable oil, and corn syrup. They use their senses to collect data and ask and answer questions.
Soap-Film Painting
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Make a big canvas of iridescent color with pvc pipe! In this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll need to cut and assemble some PVC pipe, but the pay-off, the soap-bubble canvas, is big.
The Three Little Pigments: Science activity that demonstrates the primary and secondary colors of lightScience activity that demonstrates the primary and secondary colors of light The Three Little Pigments Know your C, M, Y, and K.
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Align four color transparencies, each one a single color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), and see a beautiful full color image.
Hidden Color Chemistry
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In this activity, learners will discover what colors are in different markers, and may be surprised at the results.
Mix and Match
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In this optics activity, learners explore color by examining color dots through colored water and the light of a flashlight.
Why Are Bubbles So Colorful?
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In this activity, learners explore why they can see colors in bubbles and why they change.
Soap Film on a Can
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The beautiful iridescent colors of a bubble in a can! With this Exploratorium Science Snack, create beautiful soap films on the open end of a can to see beautiful rainbows of color.
Attention!
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In this outdoor art/environmental activity, learners create designs that will attract attention to animals and plants in particular habitats, and then test whether their designs attracted the "right"
Plant Hunt
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In this outdoor activity and game, learners collect and sort leaf samples to determine how many types of plants grow in the activity site.
Exploring the Universe: Filtered Light
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"Exploring the Universe: Filtered Light" demonstrates how scientists can use telescopes and other tools to capture and filter different energies of light to study the universe.
Envirolopes
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In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.