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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 models the structure of a virus

Viral Packaging

Fit nucleic acid and proteins into a small package.

Science activity to see how water levels change with temperature.

Swelling Seas

How does water volume change with temperature?

Ancient Observatories Teacher's Guide

Science activity to make a mini indoor compost pile

Tiny Hot Pile

Microbial decomposers heat things up.

Science activity that demonstrates how light travels through a pinhole viewer

Poking Fun at Light Rays

Discover a straight path to enlightenment.

outstretched hand and its shadow on the ground

Shadows

Investigate how to change a shadow’s size, shape, and position.

Lateral Inhibition

Which is in control, your eyes or your brain?

Science activity experimenting with a frozen water balloon

Ice Balloons

Create and examine an ice balloon.

Aporrea una pila

Investiga a prueba de golpes la primera ley de Newton.

Science activity that demonstrates force and acceleration of marshmallows

Marshmallow Puff Tube

If you blow harder, will it go farther?

Science activity to explore underwater color perception

Deep Blue

Submerge yourself in underwater color perception.

An art machine next to scribbled marks it created.

LEGO Art Machines

Add markers to LEGO technic pieces to create art machines that draw patterns as they move.