How can you lift a marble off a table without touching it with your hands?
Hands-on Activities
Is it magic? No - it’s physics! Use circular motion to overcome the force of gravity and amaze your family!
How can you make popcorn kernels dance?
Hands-on Activities
Get your popcorn kernels dancing with this uplifting chemical reaction.
How can you see underwater?
Hands-on Activities
Explore how we see things through water.
How did dinosaurs leave fossils behind?
Hands-on Activities
Using a toy dinosaur and some plaster of Paris, learn how dinosaur footprints could become fossils.
How do animals hide?
Hands-on Activities
Play a game of hide and seek to discover how animals can hide in plain sight!
How do I construct a terrarium?
Hands-on Activities
You can make your own terrarium for growing plants!
How can I make an egg float?
Hands-on Activities
In this challenge activity find out if you can get an egg to float. Learn how the density of matter affects the buoyancy of objects.
How do I see colour?
Hands-on Activities
How is light connected to the colours we see? In this STEAM activity make a colourful light catcher and discover why we see different colours?
How can I make glue?
Hands-on Activities
Discover how to use some common kitchen ingredients to make glue.
How do movies move?
Hands-on Activities
Explore the concept of persistence of vision in this hands on activity.
How can I make my own weighing scale?
Hands-on Activities
Make a scale from simple materials and test it to measure weight.
How do scuba divers sink?
Hands-on Activities
It’s not easy to dive deep underwater. How do divers get down deep? Learn how scuba divers manipulate density to move up and down in this hands on activity.
How can I move water with just a comb?
Hands-on Activities
Have you ever experienced static electricity? Like when you pull a wool sweater over your head in the winter? See what else static electricity can do in this hands-on activity.
How do vacuum cleaners work?
Hands-on Activities
Discover the type of pressure that is used in a vacuum cleaner.
How can I obtain a sample of DNA?
Hands-on Activities
Be a biochemist! Learn how to extract DNA from an onion and find out what DNA looks like.