Grades 1-3

Read "Greg's Microscope" and learn about microscopes by building your own.

Students learn more about the diversity of animals through a card game.

Students will learn about some important structures found in the human body’s nervous system along with their functions.

Read "There's No Place Like Space" (or a similarly themed storybook) and learn about the Solar System by making a pocket diagram of the planets.

Students build a bee from foam balls and pipe cleaners to learn the anatomy of the bee, make a proboscis to "eat like a bee" and learn the bee waggle dance.

Students build a life cycle of a butterfly and then watch a 10 minute clip from the Carleton University Butterfly Show.

Students build pompom poppers and balloon cars to learn about forces causing movement.

Students examine seeds, make predictions on how they disperse and create a simple seed carrier that flies like a maple key.

Make a hand stencil, then record your fingerprints with graphite and examine them up close to learn about your unique fingerprints.

Learn about forces by building a pompom popper and catapult.

Students will build a makeshift harmonica out of paper, popsicle sticks and toothpicks.

Watch water flow up a coffee filter and separate the dye in a permanent marker, then create a butterfly with the end result.

Build, launch and test a glider made of paper, a straw and an elastic.

Learn about clouds and how they form, then create a model of various clouds at their specific altitudes.

Create a model of your hand, with bones, knuckles, ligaments and tendons using paper, straw bits and string.