What’s the difference between a physical change and a chemical change? How do simple mixtures differ from chemical changes? Students explore these differences and investigate several fascinating chemical changes.

We’ll dissect different fruits and vegetables to find out what’s inside. Then, we’ll make colorful fruit and vegetable prints to take home, assemble our own snacks and more!

Explore a variety of strange and unusual ways animals defend themselves. Then, design your own animal with special characteristics to help it survive.

Discover different ways to make shadows as we investigate light by bouncing and bending it, explore shadows and shadow shapes, and experiment with colored light and colored shadows.

Investigate how air interacts with materials to make them float and fly. Experiment with floating balloons, make simple gliding toys, and construct your own kite. 

Explore pendulums and chaotic motion. We’ll play with pendulums that draw in the sand, pendulums that paint and much more.

Roll up your sleeves and get ready to sort rocks, explore clay, dig in sand and look for living material in soil as we investigate these natural materials.

Turn things on and off as you explore open and closed circuits. Investigate a variety of switches and much more. Make your own firefly to take home that turns on and off with a switch.

It’s time to give triangles the attention they deserve! In this exploration students discover the different kinds of triangles and their importance. They also use triangles to build three-dimensional objects and begin to explore the perimeters and areas of these objects.

Square wheels, triangle wheels, or circles wheels? Investigate different wheel shapes to see which one makes the “best” wheel. Test your car on a variety of surfaces to see how different they affect the rolling ability of your car.