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Try your hand at building a “super coaster” using materials around your home.

Green walls use plant processes to improve air quality in buildings.

Explore the forces of gravity and buoyancy while designing a raft to hold the most weight possible.

How do different populations adapt to their environment? Let’s explore this concept through guppy speciation.

Can you think like an engineer? Try to solve a tricky size and shape problem in this activity.

Everything and everyone ages. But scientists have made discoveries about our cells and circulatory and immune systems that could potentially one day be used to increase human lifespans.

Use a pop bottle and other everyday materials to create a rocket that you can launch outdoors.

This strategy helps students share and listen to the ideas and questions of others

When the cells of Henrietta Lacks were collected by medical researchers after her death in 1951, it changed the future of medicine.

Students will learn about the human impacts on bee populations as they design, test, build and observe a structure for solitary bees.

Pecking puts a lot of force on a woodpecker’s brain. But scientists think woodpecker bodies are adapted to help keep them from being injured during pecking-related collisions.

Students will work collaboratively to design and build a dam that holds back a given volume of water for a certain time.

In 2013, many Europeans learned their beef lasagnas were actually made of horse meat. Learn about food fraud, and how a Canadian invention can help detect it.

Students work collaboratively to design and build a floating device.

If you understand heat transfer, you can make lots of little changes at home to help the environment and your household’s bank account!