Search Results
Showing results 661 to 680 of 1617
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-003-994.png?itok=WHt8LGfO)
Milli's Super Sorting Challenge
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners separate materials based on their special properties to mimic the way recyclables are sorted at recycling centers.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-211.png?itok=Bl5RNpBu)
Train Your Brain
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners play a trick on their own brain to see if the brain can learn to ignore distracting input. Colors and words are used to play the visual trick, known as a Stroop Test.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-577.png?itok=ptETfKBd)
Modeling the Night Sky
Source Institutions
In this two-part activity, learners explore the Earth and Sun's positions in relation to the constellations of the ecliptic with a small model.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-283.png?itok=ugHewLWc)
Tower of Coins
Source Institutions
In this physics activity, challenge learners to remove the bottom coin of a stack of nickels without knocking over the stack. Use this activity to demonstrate friction.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-005-084.jpg?itok=n33FY9l_)
Baffling Body
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners will learn about proprioception, or the body's sense of its place and position in space.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-297.png?itok=edqMtztq)
Balloon Flinker
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners make a helium balloon "flink"--neither float away nor sink to the ground. Use this activity to introduce physics concepts related to gravity, density, and weight.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-952.jpg?itok=IMZraYqn)
Dance Diagram
Source Institutions
Teams of learners use a series of stick figures made from pipe cleaners to model a dance routine. Then, they use this model to communicate to another learner who performs the dance routine.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-001-891.jpg?itok=ExiyNYXb)
Create Your Own Time Capsule
Source Institutions
In this archaeology-related activity, learners build their own time capsule and choose a storage location and a date to reopen it.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-001-885.gif?itok=KhO7aMo6)
Mint Your Own Coin
Source Institutions
Coins are everyday objects which tell a lot about the people who use them.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-001-675.gif?itok=OMr77wPX)
CD Air Puck
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners will use a compact disc to build an air puck that can glide across a smooth tabletop. The puck glides with almost no friction on a cushion of air escaping from a balloon.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-042.jpg?itok=0CIVrVKB)
Irrigation Ideas
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners explore how civil engineers solved the challenge of moving water via irrigation.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-005-251.jpg?itok=nPKM_Psb)
Exploring the Universe: Static Electricity
Source Institutions
This activity encourages visitors to build an electroscope—a simplified version of one of the tools scientists use to study the invisible forces on Earth and in space.
Magnus Glider
Source Institutions
A design challenge that takes paper airplanes into an entirely different direction: a magnus glider uses cups and and rubber bands to create a glider that uses the same forces that a curveball (from b
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-730.jpg?itok=9xeiLjSz)
Exploring the Solar System: Pocket Solar System
Source Institutions
“Exploring the Solar System: Pocket Solar System” is a hands-on activity in which visitors make a scale model of the distances between objects in our solar system.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-005-245.jpg?itok=OANpcFi_)
Molecules in Motion
Source Institutions
"Molecules in Motion" explores how materials behave and change in a vacuum.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-749.jpg?itok=UIT5d4EF)
How Our Environment Affects Color Vision
Source Institutions
In this lab (Activity #1 on page), learners explore how we see color.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-903.jpg?itok=xjsY00MP)
Unleakable Bag
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners explore the flexibility of polymer chains by pushing sharpened pencils through a Ziploc bag.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-001-846.jpg?itok=PtKN8P8Z)
Instant Ice Cream with a Dry Ice Bath
Source Institutions
In this chemistry meets cooking activity, learners make carbonated, vanilla ice cream using dry ice and denatured ethanol, which are both inexpensive and accessible.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-003-214.jpg?itok=HjTwqw__)
Wolf Limiting Factors
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners simulate a wolf and its habitat and observe what happens when the limiting factors change over time.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-005-319.jpg?itok=H9ut3iOt)
Dancing Raisins
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners will explore density and it's relationship with mass.