Activity
Exploratorium

Salty Pits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Yuck, does my deodorant kill that? To test whether deodorant is anti-bacterial, class members use petri dishes to grow control bacteria and bacteria from sweat, and then compare them to see if deodorant effects the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicable Disease

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use Palms, or handheld computers, and the Cooties software to enact the transmission of communicable diseases. They discuss incubation and immunity and collect and interpret data and figure out who was the "carrier "of a "disease."