Search Results
Showing results 421 to 440 of 449
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-000-665.jpg?itok=TTOmBc1i)
Save Your Ears
Source Institutions
This game depicts a woman going through her day, faced with various loud sounds.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-000-667.jpg?itok=Iiwvqwbn)
What's That Sound?
Source Institutions
This game plays a dozen different sounds, altered to simulate what they would sound like if you had hearing loss.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-294.png?itok=juOgmbpU)
Periscope
Source Institutions
In this optics activity, learners build a spy tool to secretly view things over walls or around corners.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-212.png?itok=1Ux3Q2kU)
Throw Your Weight Around
Source Institutions
During this activity, learners take part in a variety of tasks which involve moving and balancing different body parts.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-789.jpg?itok=WMr35u4X)
Measure Your Ability to See
Source Institutions
In this exercise (Activity #2 on page), learners test their distance vision to evaluate their overall eyesight.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-951.jpg?itok=mnczU9Su)
All Systems are Go!
Source Institutions
In this online activity, learners role-play as medics, treating a patient with missing organs. Learners select different organs, then drag them into the proper location in the patient's body.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-005-252.jpg?itok=GAlUxdyH)
Chemistry Makes Scents
Source Institutions
In "Chemistry Makes Scents," participants use their noses to distinguish between chemicals with very similar structures.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-762.jpg?itok=d_AtRvWj)
Blue Sky
Source Institutions
In this optics activity, learners explore why the sky is blue and the sunset is red, using a simple setup comprising a transparent plastic box, water, and powdered milk.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-653.jpg?itok=CxK6PmOE)
Cheshire Cat
Source Institutions
Can you deceive your eyes? When your eyes work normally, you see a nice 3 dimensional picture, but what happens when each eye sees something different?
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-691.jpg?itok=c2nbU1vq)
Peripheral Vision
Source Institutions
How far can you see out of the corner of your eye? Grab a partner and find out from the Exploratorium Science Snack.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-603.gif?itok=-4_tnRNc)
Can You "See" Thermal Radiation?
Source Institutions
Use this hands-on activity to demonstrate infrared and thermal radiation.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-001-065.jpg?itok=ermf88Fy)
Jelly Beads
Source Institutions
Learners add drops of alginate solution to a solution of calcium chloride. The alginate does not mix with the calcium chloride, but forms soft gel beads.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-763.jpg?itok=bqzFEdLO)
Benham's Disk
Source Institutions
In this optics activity, learners discover that when they rotate a special black and white pattern called a Benham's Disk, it produces the illusion of colored rings.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-003-216.jpg?itok=bYrEqrLq)
Find Your Pack
Source Institutions
This activity introduces learners to wolf behavior and communication.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-003-558.png?itok=0L1XbKVY)
Building Three-Dimensional (3D) Structures
Source Institutions
In this activity, learners practice drawing 3D structures in two dimensions. Learners draw cube stacks from five different points of view.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-213.png?itok=_zCsfrZv)
Size It Up
Source Institutions
In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-549.jpg?itok=jri7ePXg)
Spinning Your (Color) Wheels
Source Institutions
In this optics activity, learners use everyday materials to make a color wheel. When learners spin the wheel like a top, they will be surprised to see all the colors mixing together to appear white.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-690.jpg?itok=SxLt-zEc)
Overlapping Spots: Make a bright spot brighter
Source Institutions
This perception trick focuses on conflicting information to the brain...instead of trying to see two images, you're trying to get a bright spot by overlapping the image you see through two tubes.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-002-602.png?itok=4qSvPdwH)
Why is the Sky Purple?
Source Institutions
This simple hands-on activity demonstrates why the sky appears blue on a sunny day and red during sunrise and sunset.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_100/public/resource_images/smile-000-000-004-323.png?itok=rvdY3PTE)
Afterimage
Source Institutions
In this optics activity, learners investigate afterimages.