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Blast Off!
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Students design and create their own air-powered rockets, in this hands-on activity.
Lava Layering: Making and Mapping a Volcano
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In this activity, learners discover how geologists use stratigraphy, the study of layered rock, to understand the sequence of geological events.
Fold a Crystal
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Rocks are made of minerals, and minerals often have crystal shapes. In this fun activity about geometry in nature, learners create their own crystal shapes out of paper.
Lean, Mean Information Machine: Using a Simple Model to Learn about Chromosomal DNA
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Learners observe a model of a cell and its chromosomal DNA made from a plastic egg and dental floss. Use this model to illustrate how much DNA is held in one cell.
Modeling Day and Night
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In this activity (on page 1 of the PDF), learners make a "mini-globe" to investigate the causes of day and night on our planet.
Edible Model of the Sun
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In this activity, learners make "solar cookies," edible models of the Sun's outer layers using sugar cookies and toppings.
Identifying Erosion
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In this environmental science activity (page 3 of the PDF), leaners will identify and explain the causes of erosion.
From Polliwog to Frog
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In this activity, learners discover how frogs' bodies change while growing from a tadpole to a frog. Learners create a simple craft that gives a visual display of the metamorphosis process.
Drain Game
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In this activity (on pages 36-39), learners make a model of a watershed out of paper, then run water down the mountain to simulate how rainfall and pollution affect watersheds.
Classification Line-up
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This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to organize an interactive model for learning the classification system (taxonomy) of living things.
Cells and Walls
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Using toothpicks, straws, or tubes of rolled up newspaper, learners create 3-dimensional models to illustrate the basic structure and function of the cell membrane, and place an object inside to repre
Have a Heart
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Your heart pumps blood throughout your body in one direction, around in a loop. In this activity, learners will make a model of one type of heart chamber called a ventricle.
Fan Cart
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If a sailboat is stranded because there is no wind, is it possible to set up a fan on deck and blow wind into the sail to make the boat move?
Water Body Salinities I
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In this activity, learners investigate the different salinity levels of oceans, rivers and estuaries.
Kelp Critters
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This marine biology activity (on pages 11-17) introduces learners to kelp (seaweed) forests that grow in the ocean and are home to many species of sea animals.
Boomerang
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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.
Exploring Tools: Special Microscopes
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In this activity, learners use a flexible magnet as a model for a scanning probe microscope (SPM). They learn that SPMs are an example of a special tool that scientists use to work on the nanoscale.
Water Clean-up
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under Water Clean-up Activity) about the use of reduction agents to decontaminate ground water.
Atoms and Matter (3-6)
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In this activity, learners build models of atoms and molecules, then consider their role in different phases of matter, density, and mixtures and solutions.
Water Body Salinities II
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In this activity, learners discuss the different salinities of oceans, rivers and estuaries.