All activities

Air cannon (with dry ice)

Air pressure in a bottle

Air pressure rocket (demonstration)

Animal dung study

Animal parts collection

Antacid molecules

Automaton - cardboard and foam machine

Baking powder chemistry

Baking soda and vinegar

Balance point on a stick or ruler

Balancing balloon with hairdryer

Balancing sculpture

Balancing your body challenges

Balloon shrinking writing

Balls for forces and energy transfer

Barnacle observation

Beach Life Bingo

Bears: how big is a black bear?

Bears: What and how much does a black bear eat?

Bee pheromone molecules

Bees: honeycomb art

Bird beak / animal eating style adaptations

Bird flapping flip book

Bird nest study

Blood vessels, pulse and heartbeat

Blue sky red sunset colours

Boat powered by surface tension

Body structure molecules

Bone slice puzzle and structure

Brain dissection

Bread: test ingredients for making gas

Bridge building challenge

Bridge structures and forces

Brownian motion - watching molecule movement

Bubble shapes - square bubble in a cube

Bubble shapes in a tray

Bubble shapes with pipecleaners

Bubbles - giant bubbles

Bubbles - make bubble mix and bubble blowers

Build an antacid molecule

Build fins and wings

Build smelly molecules

Build the molecules that give flowers their colours

Buoyancy, sinking and floating - free experimentation

Butter molecules

Camouflage challenge

Candle chemistry (and fossil fuel combustion)

Candle convection pinwheel

Car colour data collection and graphing

Carbonate acid test

Carbonate precipitation

Cartesian diver

Catapult - open wooden frame

Catapult - torsion

Catapult from popsicle sticks

Catapult from tin can / poster tube

Chemistry of bacteria in cake

Chicken observation: adaptations and behaviour

Chromatography with black markers and forensics of ink on a note

Chromatography with coloured candy

Chromatography with coloured marker pens

Chromatography with leaf colours

Clam basket weaving model

Clam dissection (or mussel)

Clams - filter feeding model

Clams - looking at the shell

Cloud in a bottle

Clouds, tornado and vortices with dry ice

CO2 acidifies water

Coke and mentos

Colour mixing and masking

Colour reversal illusions

Coloured lights change objects' colours

Coloured shadows

Colours change through filters

Combustion of a ping pong ball

Combustion of ethanol in a jug

Combustion shooter

Crater formation

Crystal shape observation with magnifiers/microscope

Crystal shapes from building blocks

Cup tower challenge

Dancing magnets

Dancing raisins

Decomposer and soil animals hunt outdoors

Decomposing foods

DNA code puzzle

DNA for a school assembly

DNA necklace with letters

Dry ice bubbles

Dry ice in water

Dry ice squealing and vibrating

Earth and Moon's orbit to scale

Echolocation demonstration / Speed of sound calculation

Edible slime (Flubber)

Egg into bottle

Egg shell removal

Egg structure study

Elastic and rigid properties of materials

Elastic band stretch

Electric circuit steady hand game

Electric circuit to light a bulb

Electric circuits with home-made wires and bulbs

Electricity - morse code

Electricity - test for conductance

Electrolysis with home made wires

Elephant's toothpaste

Energy input and output in devices

Epsom salt crystal painting

Erosion and Stream flow

Extracting dyes from plants

Eyes in predators and prey

Eyes: blind spot

Fat test for keeping warm

Feet and claws for digging and grabbing

Filtering Water

Fingerprints scenario (activity for Honey Mystery 3)

Fish feeding methods model

Fish trap model

Flower or apple dissection

Fluorescent toys

Forces and energy on the Playground

Forces in playdough

Fossil collection

Friction challenge: move the teacher

Friction in shoes

Friction on a bike

Friction on a sledding hill

Friction: sliding blocks down ramps

Fruit and vegetable indicator dyes

Fruit and vegetable search in art

Fruit ripening smells

Fur for keeping warm

Garden Scavenger hunt and Bingo game

Gas collection over water

Gazpacho soup / veggie smoothie

Glockenspiel notes

Glow stick chemistry

Granite minerals

Gravitational lensing model

Gravity Assist Model

Habitat survey and food web

Hair Analysis with stuffie hair (activity for Honey Mystery 1)

Hearing through our bones

Heart dissection

Heat and insulation in lunch bags

Heat conduction in a metal rod

Heat conduction in different materials

Heat convection demonstration

Heat melting ice cubes

Heat radiation lamp

Heat sensitive sheets

Heat: What materials feel warm and cold?

Heating land and water

Helicopter and launcher

Household levers

Hydrogen peroxide chemistry

Inclined planes, wedges and screws

Insect eye lens

Insects on flowers Bingo game

Kidney sorting mechanisms

Kingdoms of Life hunt

Landform models

Laser beam in a stream of water

Laser beam in a tank of water

Lasers and mirrors

Laughing cup noise maker

Leaf growth patterns

Leg bone puzzle

Leg dissection (chicken)

Lenses bend light

Lenses: magnify and invert an image

Lever for lifting (heavy) things

Lever free experimentation

Lever projecting a ball

Levers: how bats and racquets work

Levers: measuring forces

Levitating magnets

Light attraction of brine shrimp (and other pond organisms)

Live fish observation

Luminescent candy

Magnetic Field Patterns in oil

Magnetic fishing game

Magnetic force field patterns

Magnetic force through materials

Magnetic race track

Magnetic sculpture

Magnetite in beach sand

Magnets: paper clip bridge

Magnets: what sticks to them?

Magnified images scavenger hunt

Magnifiers and Microscopes

Magnifiers and sun makes fire

Making mixtures: new textures, physical changes, chemical reactions

Marble collisions

Matching flowers with insects they attract

Measuring and estimating plant height

Metamorphic animals Life cycle cards

Milk and soap painting

Milkshake: foam in food

Mineral hardness and streak colour

Mini baking soda rocket (film canister)

Mirror maze and writing

Mirror multiple reflections challenges

Mirror symmetry patterns

Mirror writing making shadows

Mirrors for looking round corners

Mixtures: solutions, suspensions and colloids

Molecular modelling of combustion of ethanol

Molecular modelling of respiration and photosynthesis

Molecular modelling of urea formation

Molecular modelling of yeast converting sugar to gas

Molecule modelling free play

Molecules moving in warm and cold water

Moon Phases Model

Moon phases model (desktop version)

Moon phases puzzle

Motor (hand-wound)

Motor free play

Muscle contractions in your body

Muscle structure magnified

Native Plant Scavenger hunt, iSpy or Bingo

Natural selection game

Nitrogen cycle through salmon to trees

Nitrogen Cycle with molecular modelling

Noise pollution game

Nurse Log Study

Nutrients in animal feed

Ocean sediment cores

Oil and water floating experiment

Oil spill clean up simulation

Opposable thumbs

Paper airplanes

Paper tower challenge

Patterns in object and number sequences

Pendulum drawing board

Pet cat demonstration

Petal number counting and graphing

Physical change introduction and reversibility

Pin and ring game

Pinball machine

Planet surface features formed by wind and liquid

Plant features: drip tips, waxy coating, bendy stems

Plant growth in a sealed jar

Plant parts that we eat

Plant smell matches and their molecules

Plant vessels in flowers visualized

Plant xylem vessels under the microscope

Pollen collection

Printing with leaves

Projectiles free play

Pulley free play

Pulleys and small weight to feel the forces

Pulleys to lift a person or heavy load

Pulleys to pull each other together

Pulleys: measuring forces in composite pulley systems

Rain gauge model - tipping bucket

Rainbow with a hose and the sun

Rainbow with water and flashlight

Rainbows from light with a CD/prism/cut glass/scratched plastic

Red cabbage dye (and pH indicator)

Reducing Friction with lubricant (ice) and rolling

Rock collection

Rock cycle crayon model

Rocket chemistry molecular modelling (liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen)

Rocket powered by baking soda and vinegar

Root growth visualized

Sand (or mud) study

Scone chemistry

Scribbling machine

Sedimentary sand art

Sedimentary uplifting (with optional fossil discovery)

Seed dissection

Seed diversity and classification

Seed germination and gravity

Seed germination requirements

Seed helicopter paper model

Separating a heterogeneous mixture

Shapes in structures

Shining pennies

Simple machines in a woodwork project

Simple machines on a bike

Skeleton comparisons

Skull comparisons

Slime and Silly putty recipes

Smell pairs: herbs and plants

Smells in the air demonstration

Smelly paintings

Snail close observation

Soil chemistry tests

Soil habitat study

Soil sedimentation test

Solar System to scale

Sound frequency detection

Sound through string

Sound vibration model

Sound with a ruler

Sounds in a box

Sour candy chemistry

Sour food chemistry

Spider camouflage

Spider web - preserve a real web

Spider web shapes

Spirograph modeling orbit precession

Star constellation model

States of matter (and temperature) in Water

States of Matter Scavenger Hunt

States of matter: acting them out

Static electricity sparks and lightning model

Static electricity with a balloon

Static electricity: jumping rice crispies

Static electricity: light a bulb

Stream Chemistry

String telephone

Structure from triangles

Sturdy structures: building and reinforcing shapes

Sun spot observation

Sun's angle on earth

Surface tension with paperclips

Taste and smell for identifying candy flavours

Taste bud observation

Taste tests for the five basic tastes

Teeth in herbivores, carnivores and us

Temperate rainforest plant features

Temperature measurement

Temperature measurements in a pond

Temperature sensing

Tornado in a bottle

Touch sensitivity

Turbulence visualized

UV flower pattern matching game

Visual deprivation walk

Wasp nest study

Water cycle bracelet

Water cycle model

Water filter molecules

Water flow with temperature and salt variation

Water resistance

Water resistance: racing shapes through water

Weathering rocks

Weathering scavenger hunt

Wheel and forces

Wind spinner free experimentation

Wind-blown seed models

Wood bug classroom habitat

Wood bugs: close observation

Wood bugs: what do they like to eat?

Wood bugs: where do they like to live?

Worms: close observation

Worms: indoor compost bin

Yeast eats sugar and makes gas