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Physics Volunteer Activities

Create your own magnetic kite!

This activity will teach us about magnets and how they can overcome gravity by creating a magnetic kite!

Physics Volunteer Activities

Create your own Electromagnet!

Learn about electricity and magnets and how they influence each other by creating your own electromagnet!

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Eggs-periment!

This activity will show us what vinegar does to calcium carbonate, a molecule that makes up sea shells, corals, and parts of your bones!

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Carbon Dioxide Candle - Demonstration

Put out a candle using carbon dioxide created by mixing vinegar and baking soda and learn about the states of matter and invisible gases!

Biology Volunteer Activities

Create your own bones!

In this activity, we will use everyday materials to make our own bones!

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Alka-Seltzer Rockets

In this activity, we will learn all about gases, pressure and the states of matter by making alka-seltzer rockets!

Biology Volunteer Activities

Insect Predation Game

Students learn about interspecific competition and population and ecosystem dynamics through a fun and dynamic game. They are introduced to adaptations, prey and predator relationships, food chains and evolution.

Biotechnology Volunteer Activities

Smartphone Microscope Stand

Online instructions for building inexpensive microscope stands that can be used with smartphones to take pictures of magnified objects.

Engineering Volunteer Activities

Sailing Kit

This is a comprehensive lesson plan on sailing - the history of sailing, parts of a sailboat, the physics of floating, wind, physics of sails, keeling and modern sails. The kit also includes an activity where students make a sailboat and hold a regatta.