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

Playing games is a great way to exercise your brain. Even a simple game like Tic-Tac-Toe can teach you about strategy.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.

Activities and History

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

Use dominoes to model a nerve cell's transmission of a signal

Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.

Make cool boxes out of old (or new) greeting cards and postcards.

Explore the surprising side of color.

Opera singers carry notes that seem to last forever. How do they do it?

In an earthquake, some older structures collapse and others stand tall. The difference is usually retrofitting.

How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.

Learn about the most important piece of equipment-- your feet!

Learn how changes in genes over generations created the modern goldfish.

How are emotional expressions built?

Do hot water and cold water mix?

Scratch Film, also known as Direct Animation, is the process of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film.

Stand outside on a sunny day with a watch in your hand, and you can tell which way is north.

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?

How do scientists establish the age of artifacts, rocks, and settlements?

Why do road bikes have thin tires, while mountain bikes have fat tires?

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

Making waves.

Meteor, meteorite, meteoroid – what's the difference?

Why do road bikes have thin tires, while mountain bikes have fat tires?

Teeth are the most common fossils found. What can they tell us?

What's really going on when you bake? Find out.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

Make your own refracting telescope from a pair of reading glasses.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.

Activités pour la classe élémentaire.

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.

Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.