A collection of simple experiments your students will enjoy! Each activity only requires a few household items, and will certainly spark the creativity in young scientists!

A number of electrical, nuclear, solar, and wind science projects and energy activities are described on this page, with links to each activity.

Create a creature that uses air to create motion with this challenge. Site includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their design process.

Build a machine that accomplishes a task in an inefficient way with this Rube Goldberg challenge. Find some tips and a place to document your engineering process on this site.

Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.

Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the structure and function of the nucleus. Students will learn about the structures associated with the nucleus like the nuclear envelop, the nucleolus,...

The resource explores the structure and financing of the Medicare system. Topics featured are how Medicare works, financing, who runs Medicare, and the program's history. (2006-2007)

An excellent career profile. A concise look at Psychology careers. The site looks at a day in the life, tells educational requirements, and future outlook for the profession. Excellent site for students interested in a Psychology career.

Use this lesson plan from National Geographic Education to explore rivers and their watersheds, using where they live as an example. Necessary vocabulary for the lesson is included as well as a puzzle for students to figure out that...

Click on the picture of the rabbit and learn about the various parts of the rabbit and their functionality. Other interesting facts about rabbits are presented on this page.

This is an engineering activity that requires students to build a mousetrap car based on certain constraints. Constraints include students having a virtual budget that they use to buy approved parts for their car, the car having...

First one to empty the jug wins! And it's not as easy as it sounds...

Detectable flashes of light are released as wintergreen-flavored candies are crushed in darkness.

Sharp Pencils and water-filled sandwich bags demonstrate the nature of certain polymers.

Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.

Glass objects seem to disappear when placed in cooking oil.

Do you have the magic touch? Watch as your finger mysteriously moves a pencil without touching it.

Counting and cardinality, measurement, and measureable attributes are all discovered in this activity from Peg + Cat. Your child can earn badges as they complete a morning routine with Peg and her best friend Cat.

In this activity, you will be able to observe the oxygen production in leaves by doing a floating leaf disk experiment. You can also find out how quickly plants produce oxygen, and what variables affect photosynthesis.

Do you ever wonder what happens when a cloud gets too full? Find out in this easy and fun experiment.

For elementary students, this booklet of activities teaches basic money skills and concepts. Includes lesson plans.

This experiment is about bread. If you have used my website for long, you know that I like experiments with food, especially when it is tasty food. We regularly bake bread, and there are few smells that are better than the smell of...