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 investigation where students design and build a bridge, using only straws and tape, that must support a weight.

An activity where students take on the roles of parts of the circulatory system, and simulate the transport of nutrients, oxygen, and carbon dioxide through the blood stream.

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.

Great ideas to get students started on an invention for a science fair. A list of ways students will design and engineer a solution to a problem will help students begin choosing a topic. Check out the list of general science topics,...

This website offers three activity centers: Questionnaires, Opinion Surveys, and Challenge Questions. Take a look at these interesting water research activities from the US Geological Survey. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

Discover how to approach a scientific question, and learn eight steps students will perform in doing so. Offers suggestions on how to ask a testable question as well as several examples.

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.

Science Bob presents instructions for a science demonstration of how to make crazy foam using common supplies with information on how it works.

Science Bob provides instructions for making a pringles can rocket fuel using common supplies with information on how it works.

Science Bob presents instructions for a science demonstration of how get chicken sounds from a cup using common supplies with information on how it works.

Science Bob gives instructions on how to make plastic milk using common supplies with information on how it works.

Science Bob presents instructions for conducting an acid-base experiment using common supplies with information on how it works.

Science activity shows what happens when a bar of soap is heated. Links to video of the experiment.

This set of activities teaches students about the big picture of science using Mars as an example: how to collect data, use evidence, and look at models.

Multi-activity lesson in which learners engage in learning about the inheritance of genetic traits.

Explore water's unique properties in the activities here. Includes ideas for starting a chemistry club, ideas for Earth Day, articles, and videos.

Site explores colors and how they are formed. Provides three different activities to explore color.

In this activity, students examine soil. They choose a location and describe it. They then dig a hole, measure the depth of the topsoil and subsoil, take samples of each, and describe their composition and characteristics.

Get ready to set a course for sky exploration. The following activity is designed to help students learn to listen, read, and communicate in both written and oral formats about the sky.

For this activity, students research what types of severe weather their county has had over the past 50-60 years. They will look at the severity of these events and the number of injuries and deaths they caused. They will then decide...

Students learn how to create a disaster preparedness kit in this activity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Volcanoes can form at hotspots away from plate boundaries. This article discusses hotspot activity and how it leads to volcanism in the oceans.

In this activity, students will calculate scales of distance and length as used by ocean drilling scientists.