Activities
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In this activity, students will investigate factors that influence the temperature of an isolated system and relate this to average kinetic energy and thermodynamic properties.
- 9–12
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Students will investigate, categorize and explore the multitude of IT career categories that are available through reading several IT-career cards.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will use a laser pointer and flat mirrors to explore the law of reflection.
- K–5
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Students will use a life cycle audit to evaluate a product’s environmental impact on society by proposing design changes in order to reduce the negative impact it could have.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will use a topographic map of their school grounds to identify geologic features using a printed map.
- K–5
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In this lesson, students will work in teams to design a pair of headphones specifically for children under three.
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students model how a medication is filtered from the blood using colored water. They make predictions about how much medicine remains in a person’s system over time by comparing their predictions to observed data.
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students will learn what causes type I and type II diabetes and investigate what is happening in the body of a person who has diabetes, including the function of the pancreas in insulin production and how insulin allows for glucose to enter cells.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will model the process of heat transfer by convection in Earth's oceans.
- 6–8
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In this activity, students will place foods in different environments and observe the rate at which those foods decompose.
- 6–8
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Students work together to build an algorithm for drawing a pixel picture using coordinate directions and color assignments on graph paper. Then, students follow the algorithms of other groups to create the images on a larger scale with post-it notes.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will design a procedure for separating five types of recyclable materials based on their physical properties.
- K–5
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Students will learn about the concept of low impact development: practices that use or copy natural processes such as absorption or evaporation to protect water quality.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will explore the relationship between angles of incident and reflected light and use this relationship to design and test their own periscopes in a classroom competition.
- K–5
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In this activity, students explore how sound waves travel through various materials.
- K–5
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In this activity, students use simple materials to produce and observe cloud formation.
- 6–8
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Students will gain an understanding of the comparative size of the objects in our Solar System and the great distances between them.
- 6–8
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In this activity, teachers will create a mysterious topography using small boxes inside a copy paper box.
- K–5