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Learning Toolbox: Engage in activities about the science of coronavirus and explore our online resources for learning at home.
Science of Water: Food Explore water's crucial role in food and cooking.
Browse our growing online collection of interactive exhibits.
Global Climate Change Explorer • Discover how researchers study climate change and examine the latest scientific data.
Low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious.
Wired Pier Environmental Field Station • Explore weather, air quality, and water conditions from San Francisco Bay
Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
What is a gear ratio? And how do gears help make the bicycle so efficient?
This card game is a little like a puzzle. You and your opponents all try to find solutions to the puzzle���and the one who finds the most solutions wins!
Explore the mysterious interactions between light and geography through the eyes and works of artists Charles Ross and James Turrell.
Visit an organic egg farm, and see the science behind raising those eggs.
What's really going on when you bake? Find out.
Take an exclusive tour of the Hetch Hetchy water system.
Watch contemporary musicians and sound artists perform and discuss their work.
Scratch Film, also known as Direct Animation, is the process of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film.
Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.
Rainbows on the ceiling, rainbows on the floor.
See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.
Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit.
What do you really know about what you see?
You may be surprised at the results of this "wimpy" workout.
Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.
Build a bridge from a piece of paper and explore ways of making it stronger.
A model for heart development
Playing games is a great way to exercise your brain. Even a simple game like Tic-Tac-Toe can teach you about strategy.
Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.
See how 3D printing can be used to make art.
Build a bridge out of newspaper and discover some important structural principles.
Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration
Get a taste of how the earth's plates move.
Watch old pennies turn bright and shiny right before your eyes!
A little physics can go a long way on that shortboard.
Polarized light passing through sugar, water "rotates" to reveal beautiful colors.
Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.
Exploring the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans
Make yourself giant or tiny with a snip of the scissors.
Using baking soda and vinegar, you can pop a plastic bag with the power of fizz.
Get your antennae ready for what's on the airwaves.
Watch Venus travel in front of the sun.
A window on regeneration
Who lives in the Arctic, and how did they get there?
Activities and History
Learn more about the process of making Champagne.
Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.
Illuminate your understanding of how batteries work.
A do-it-yourself cartoon kit. It's easy to make pictures move!
Use this handy conversion calculator to convert between the many units found in recipes.
Professional development resources for teacher educators.
Use live data to make your own wave predictions, wherever you are.
Are there meat by-products in makeup? Can you guess where you might find them?
Do hot water and cold water mix?
Modelos plásticos huecos del aparato vocal humano convierten el graznido de un pato en sonidos de vocales.
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They're a menace to ships, but life thrives in these frozen oases.
A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.
Build a stripped-down motor, a simple, easy-to-make version of the electric motors found in toys, tools, and appliances.
Explore the process of reconstructing a skull as a 3-D model.
See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.
How does drafting help a cyclist? What is skin friction?
Learn how living things get energy from dead ones in this interactive exhibit.
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