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Count Around
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Learners explore their surroundings while reasoning about categories and counting.
Sock Garden
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In this activity (located in the middle of the page), learners start a garden by planting their socks!
Exploring Structures: Butterfly
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In this activity, learners investigate how some butterfly wings get their color.
Dissolving a Substance in Different Liquids
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In this activity, learners make colored sugar and add it to water, alcohol, and oil to discover some interesting differences in dissolving.
Unlocking the Secret in Product Codes
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In this activity, learners will explore how product barcodes are scanned accurately and be able to "guess" the last number in a 13 digit barcode correctly every time.
Frog Olympics
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Did you know that a bullfrog can jump a distance of 10 times its body length? Learn more about nature's most acrobatic amphibian, the frog, through this set of short, hands-on activities.
Exploring the Solar System: Hide and Seek Moon
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"Exploring the Solar System: Hide and Seek Moon" is an engaging way for early childhood learners to experiment with some of the tools scientists use to study objects that are very, very far away, and
Do Sweat It!
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In this activity, learners explore why humans sweat. Learners compare the effects of heat on a balloon filled with air and a balloon filled water.
Stained Glass Glue
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In this activity on page 6 of the PDF, learners use glue instead of glass to create artwork that can be hung in a window.
Exploring Earth: Paper Mountains
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In this activity, learners explore in what ways the shape of the land and the pull of gravity influence how water moves over Earth.
Hoopster: An Airplane Made from Paper Hoops
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This activity provides instructions for making an aircraft that can really fly using a straw and paper hoops!
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.
Squeezing Pictures Into Codes
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In this activity, learners will explore how computers represent pictures using pixels.
Exploring Tools: Mitten Challenge
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In this activity, learners build a LEGO® structure while wearing mittens. This activity shows learners how difficult it is to build small things when your tools are too big.
Torsion Drum
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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.
Seeing Is Believing
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This activity is designed to accompany the PBS documentary about African-American chemist "Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius." Learners look through two cups with small holes in them to simulate what it'
Hydraulic Car
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In this activity, learners build cars using syringes and water-powered hydraulics. Learners construct the car frame out of cardboard and set up a hydraulic system to raise and lower the car.
Planetary Rescue Squad
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This is an online Flash game where learners can experiment with ballistics and how to compensate for the varying levels of gravity found on the planets of our Solar System.
Create a Mangrove Tree
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In this group activity, learners will explore the characteristics, functions and uniqueness of the mangrove tree.
CANdemonium: Make a Drum Out of Recycled Cans
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With three cans and some tape, make a drum that you bonk down on any surface to produce a variety of sounds. This activity also teaches you about pitch, vibration, and frequency.