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Science Activities

Hungry for fresh, exciting science activities based in amazing phenomena? Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested, and use cheap, available materials.

Science activity that demonstrates perception of additive color mixtures

Colored Shadows

Not all shadows are black.

Science activity that demonstrates a creative exploration of light through a pinhole viewer

Poking Fun at Art

Explore light and color from a hole new angle.

Science activity to make an instrument that creates the sound of rain falling

Make Your Own Rainstick

Listen to the sound of rain falling—anytime, anywhere.

Science activity that demonstrates action-reaction pairs described in Newton’s Third Law

Fan Cart

Build a low-friction cart and explore Newton’s third law.

Science activity to build a musical instrument that uses vibrations

Coffee-Can Cuíca

Build a cuíca—a musical instrument—and play with vibrations.

Science activity that demonstrates a color illusion

Benham's Disk

A rotating black-and-white disk produces the illusion of color.

Science activity that demonstrates convection

Convection Currents

Make your own heat waves in an aquarium.

Science activity that demonstrates calculating the acceleration of gravity using simple materials

Falling for Gravity

“g,” that’s interesting! Investigating gravity.

Science activity that demonstrates resonant frequencies

Resonator

Explore resonance to discover how objects vibrate at certain frequencies.

$Science activity that explores fractal patterns and how they’re formed$

Fractal Patterns

Make dendritic diversions and bodacious branches.

Sample Activity Sequence

How do materials move in and out of cells?

Science activity that demonstrates the chemistry of batteries

Aluminum-Air Battery

Construct a simple battery that can power a light.

Science Activities

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