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In this game, learners create flash cards with an image on one side (of an animal, for example) and the sound that animal makes on the other.

Use a Pico Cricket (micro-controller) to animate your art! You can program a Pico Cricket to make your art spin, light up, or make music.

Make a rattle-like musical instrument! Shake it, hit it, spin it any way you want to!

This resource contains ideas and brief instructions on how to build animals out of construction paper and other simple materials.

Using pipe cleaners, straws, and beads, learners explore the building blocks of life by creating their own model of DNA.

Straws and pipe cleaners are terrific materials for building models of pyramids and cubes.

In this fun activity about spiders, learners build and design a spider from cardstock, straw, string, and pipe cleaners.

Make a kite out of a garbage bag, shower curtain, painting tarp--anything light, thin, flexible and plastic!

Many of the genetic sequences found in the fruit fly genome are similar to those found in humans.

In this activity, you take regular dominoes, and turn them into conductive switches that can turn on a LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket (micro controller). LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket is required.

Learn about friction and kinetic energy with this cool spinning toy.

Learners make their own paper using old newspaper. Learners can make their paper colorful by adding construction paper.

Audio Boggle is an activity that lets you listen to a track (that you make yourself) and see what you can hear!

Play-Doh is conductive! Use the semiconductive qualities of Play-Doh to make your own squeezable instrument. Pico Cricket is required.

This is a perfect summertime lunch activity! Pico Cricket is required (micro controller). First, get a bunch of cut up fruit, line them up, then plug a piece of fruit with a Pico Cricket sensor clip.

Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, a Minnesota artist, came up with this really fun and surprising activity using graphite from a pencil, connected with a Pico Cricket to tell a story: "The first time I saw s

This game is like regular bingo, except the clues are sounds.

Learners can program a compass to draw a circle by itself using a Pico Cricket, some Legos, and lots of tape! Pico Cricket is required.

Learners make bell bracelets, place them on their wrists or ankles, and then dance to the rhythms and sounds the bells make. Many cultures use ankle or wrist bells to make music during dancing.

In this interactive game, learners compare their music-listening skills with that of a three-month-old baby.