This package of activities is intended for use at a family literacy event on science. The premise is that family literacy and adult literacy go hand in hand. There are suggestions for how to organize the event, and numerous ideas for...

An activity where students simulate the process of extracting coal from the ground using chocolate chip cookies. They then calculate the costs involved to determine whether coal mining is profitable.

You don't need to be a science teacher in order to teach science at home! This site has a great list of activities along with everything you will need to conduct them.

On line course on Temperature and Heat for graduate credit or professional development, that emphasize hands on activities you can use in your classroom.

A hands-on science activity for teachers to do to help students explore light reflection.

Learn about refraction in this hands-on science experiment. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what happens when light moves from one material to another.

Use skittles to form a rainbow with this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.

Make glasses formed out of jello with this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.

One way scientists talk about matter or substance-that is, the stuff in the world-is in terms of pure substances and mixtures. Pure substances are substances that contain only one kind of molecule. Water with nothing else in it is a pure...

Sparticl is a new web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM. Sparticl includes answers to science questions, images, videos, games, and...