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Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More

Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.

Biological Baseball
Biological Baseball

Baseball pushes the limits of human biology.
Ocean Acidification in a Cup: What's going on

How does ocean acidification affect humans and sea life?

The Heart of the Matter: Inside CERN
The Heart of the Matter: Inside CERN

Visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which studies what the universe is made of and how the universe works.

Science activity that demonstrates calculating the acceleration of gravity using simple materials
Falling for Gravity
“g,” that’s interesting! Investigating gravity.
Colors
Cheer on the new Iron Science Teacher.
Science activity that demonstrates proprioception
Proprioception
We know where our bodies are even with our eyes closed.
Science activity that explores unexpected patterns
Spinning Blackboard
Create graceful loops and spirals by drawing on a spinning disk.
Collecting soil for Winogradsky Column activity
Bacterial Terrarium

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

Science activity that demonstrates lactose digestion by lactase
Milk Makes Me Sick
Explore the basis of lactose intolerance.
Science activity that uses gravity to turn soap film into an ever-shifting array of colors
Soap Film Painting
Gravity turns soap film into an ever-shifting, colorful masterpiece.
Frogs
Frogs

Explore articles and interactives and listen to the calls of amazing, adaptable frogs.

Science activity that explores the relative sizes of the earth and moon and the distances between them
Earth and Moon
Create a scale model of the earth-moon system using different-sized spheres.

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