Price: $8.80

How will an earthquake, simulated by shaking, affect a "building" made of linked squares? How can the square "stories" be cross-braced to prevent the "walls" from collapsing? What dangers are there in building above a garage?

Price: $15.80

Provide students with opportunities to create a basic circuit, build a portable version, and explore parallel and series circuits!

Price: $7.30

Students will enjoy exploring sound, waves, forces, and motion with this simple and fun science activity that uses a vibrating rubber band to investigate the variables in creating sound.

Price: $9.00

Create a model car consisting of a simple chassis and a straw-based axle system (simple machine) that teach students about motion along inclined planes, friction,
gravity, momentum, and potential vs. kinetic energy.

Price: $5.30

A must to include in your science lesson plans. Students assemble an easily built spectroscope that allows them to separate incoming light into its component colors, forming a light spectrum (rainbow).

Price: $10.10

A must to include in your science lesson plans. Students assemble an easily built spectroscope that allows them to separate incoming light into its component colors, forming a light spectrum (rainbow).

Price: $21.40

Many catapult designs have evolved over the centuries. The new connect-a-pult demonstrates common items being re-purposed with the aid of a little creative engineering. Even young learners can explore the effects of using different launch angles and force

Price: $12.40

Build student curiosity about motion, center of mass, and inertia with this fun activity! Use this activity as a tool to discuss the characteristics of living organisms.

Price: $7.90

Students build a "vehicle" designed to prevent a dropped egg from breaking. In the process, they discover that combining simple materials with a little creative thinking and teamwork will reveal many ways to solve this intriguing challenge!

Price: $12.10

Use alka-seltzer to create a reaction that builds up pressure in a film canister. Have a blast with this gas-powered flyer.

Price: $9.70

The floating compass is a useful tool for detecting the magnetic fields of magnets and of the Earth. Make a simple compass with a magnetized needle demonstrates the properties of magnetic materials and shows that magnets have north and south poles. Using the floating compass provides a visual example of how like poles repel each other.

Price: $5.30

A teaching resource to demonstrate the science of motion and forces like friction and air pressure, where students create a simple hovercraft that will gracefully glide along on a thin cushion of air.

Price: $13.20

A teaching resource to demonstrate the science of motion and forces like friction and air pressure, where students create a simple hovercraft that will gracefully glide along on a thin cushion of air.

Price: $8.20

Make a self-supporting bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Be amazed by the ingenious simplicity of his creation! Use Leonardo's idea to inspire a student design challenge.

Price: $6.10

This simple yet effective activity provides a practical method for teaching students how to find and label the magnetic poles on a magnet, identify magnetic materials, understand the difference between geographic and magnetic poles.

Price: $6.90

A variety of scientific and gravity "defying" demonstrations can be done by combining pill and ring magnets in unique ways to create a multipurpose demo unit.

Price: $13.10

Hypothesize, experiment, collect data and analyze forces and motion with a straw “rocket” and an easily made launcher. The stronger the force, the farther and higher the rocket flies!

Price: $8.80

This fun and easy activity reinforces programming techniques such as planning, sequencing, testing, debugging, and creating procedures and loops.

Price: $9.90

What does math have to do with thrilling roller coaster rides? How high does a coaster need to be to successfully navigate through a loop and on to the end of the track? Explore these questions and more with roller coaster math!

Price: $8.10

Enjoy the hands-on experience of building and using the Roller Racer. Explore the application of simple machines and energy conversion and investigate how changes in stored energy can affect performance.