
Fireworks in a Bottle
by • July 3, 2015
Make your own liquid “fireworks” with this simple and safe activity.
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by • July 3, 2015
Make your own liquid “fireworks” with this simple and safe activity.
Experience Guillermo Galindo's thoughts on his boundary-breaking musical works.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration
Build cantilevers from bamboo garden poles and drinking straws and discover the importance of scale.
San Francisco was born in gold dust, and nearly died in rubble and ashes.
Vsit a quirky kitchen where you can compose music with ordinary (and not-so-ordinary) objects.
In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.
An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.
On Saturday, May 6th, 2000 we hosted a live panel discussion and webcast to explore the amazing phenomena of Star Trek.
Why is your shadow longer in winter than in summer? Grab a basketball and some paperclips and find out!
Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.
The Antarctic food web is the simplest on the planet, and krill are at its hub.
Why is the bicycle the most efficient way to travel? Explore bicycle science and culture.
by Mary Miller • April 19, 2017
Launch our new web app to explore environmental data.
Here's how you can model the use of X rays for medical examinations with some sand and a piece of screen.
Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.
Scientific knowledge and a few chemical concoctions can get you through a Bad Hair Day.
Want to see where the biggest quakes have been this week? Follow a few of the links below to see what's shaking in your neighborhood and around the world.
Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.
This year marks 50 years since the first human set foot on the moon. Relive the memories with NASA scientist Brian H. Day—take a look back at each of the Apollo landing sites, examine why NASA chose each one, and reflect on what they learned at each site.
In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.
Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.