Science Museum of Minnesota

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.

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

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.

Build a fruit fly trap out of a 2-liter plastic bottle and some rotten fruit! Fruit flies are easy to catch in warm weather. Once you catch some, you will be able to see their life cycle up-close.

Capture soap bubble patterns on paper! In this activity, learners can create beautiful pictures from popping soap bubbles.

In this activity, learners create a kind of balance device using a wire coat hanger, some string, and paper cups.

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 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.

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