How Many Students?
Students explore statistics by collecting data of their classmates names and seeing whether or not female or male names are longer.
Nervous System - Neuron Highway
Students will send a ''message'', a piece of paper attached to an unmodified paper clip, along a string to demonstrate how the nervous system work.
Penny Drops
Students will explore surface tension and how water molecules stick together to form a drop of water by dropping water onto a penny or any other small coin.
Circulation
In this activity, participants will explore the functioning of their circulatory system and how different activity levels impact it!
What is your weight on another planet?
Perform a simple calculation to see how gravity affects your weight.
Daily and Seasonal Changes
Students learn about daily and seasonal changes through group discussion, songs, drawing and interactive demonstrations.
The Dots
Students learn about how data in computers is stored and transmitted as a series of zeros and ones and complete an activity to represent words and numbers using just these two symbols.
Solids, liquids, and gases - Additional activities
Try out some additional activities that explore solids, liquids and gases!
Butterfly Life Cycle - Preschool/Kindergarten
This activity introduces pre-school / kindergarten aged students to the different steps in the life cycle of a butterfly from egg, to caterpillar, to chrystalis / cocoon, to butterfly. The students also get to create and take home a butterfly or caterpillar craft.
Astrobiology Investigation
In this activity, students will test different "alien soil samples" for signs of life.
Make a Crater!
Learners will build their very own crater and test different sized balls from various heights to see how their crater size may differ.
Constellation Viewers
Students will learn about stars and create a "constellation viewer" where they can create a constellation to look at.
Storytime - Who Likes the Wind?
Read "Who Likes the Wind?" and learn about wind and renewable energy.
Constellation Detective
Students are given an unlabeled picture of a night sky and asked to find the constellations in it.
Let's Build a Telescope!
Learners will build their very own telescope and experience what it's like to look at different objects through a telescope lens.