 Geometry Scavenger Hunt What geometric shapes can you find on the playground? 
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Walking Polygons Investigate the interior angles of polygons with your feet.
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Playground Patterns of Cracks Are some angles more common than others?
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Tiny Pants Photo Challenge Using a simple trick of perspective, you can dress your friends in tiny cutout clothing.
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Walk a Math Trail Get outside and explore geometry (and other math) all around you. VIDEO
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Cow's Eye Dissection Find out how your eyes work and watch a real dissection of a cow's eye. INTERACTIVE
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Planetarium View the night sky from any latitude on earth, and take a guided tour of the Hawaiian star families. INTERACTIVE
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Seasons and Shadows Why is your shadow longer in winter than in summer? Grab a basketball and some paperclips and find out! HANDS-ON
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Canoe Tour Take a virtual tour of a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe. INTERACTIVE
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Sound Sandwich Make a crowd-pleasing noisemaker called a sound sandwich, which you can adjust to raise or lower its pitch. HANDS-ON
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Modeling the Seasons See for yourself how the tilt of the earth's axis results in what we experience as the seasons. HANDS-ON
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Make Your Own Petroglyph Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own. HANDS-ON
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Your Age on Other Worlds Find out why people who love birthday parties should move to Mercury.
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Subzero Gardening Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica. VIDEO
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Your Weight on Other Worlds Ever wonder what you might weigh on Mars or the moon? Here's your chance to find out.
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Solar Images: Tools Through Time The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies. ARTICLE
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 Science at Burning Man Join the Exploratorium on the playa in Black Rock Desert and explore the science of pyrotechnics, flight, dust devils, rainbows, and more.
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 Science in the City The Exploratorium is "taking it outside" to explore natural and human-made phenomena in and around San Francisco. Look for new episodes twice each month.
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 The Tinkering Studio This immersive, active, creative studio is a place where museum visitors can slow down, become deeply engaged in an investigation of scientific phenomena, and make something.
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 ColorFest Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.
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 Cabspotting Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life.
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Live Deep-Sea Exploration with the E/V Nautilus Follow along with expedition leader Bob Ballard and his crew on the exploration vessel Nautilus as they search for hydrothermal vents, underwater volcanoes, and ancient shipwrecks.
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 Driven: True Stories of Inspiration How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.
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Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation Imagine yourself in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. You've been sailing for weeks, and there's no land in sight. Do you know where you are? Do you know which way to go?
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 Geometry Playground Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.
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 AfterSchool Activities Watch how-to videos for fun after school or at-home activities from the Digital Library.
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 Extremophiles in Kamchatka Follow scientists looking for life in the hot springs of the Russian Far East.
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 Voyages of Discovery: NOAA's Okeanos Explorer The Okeanos Explorer is the newest vessel in NOAA's fleet and the first to be dedicated solely to exploration and discovery missions. Follow along with the scientists and crew on their discovery voyages.
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