Short Activities
Short activities are brief hands-on experiences lasting less than 15 minutes for small groups of people.
They are often presented at a table, cart, or demonstration space in a variety of settings such as a museum exhibit gallery, classroom, or other public or group setting. Multiple short activities can be combined to form a longer activity.
Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets
In this activity, learners will build and launch their own air rockets to help imagine the challenges and triumphs of engineering spacecraft.
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Exploring Earth: Temperature Mapping
In this activity, learners model the way Landsat satellites use a thermal infrared sensor to measure land surface temperatures.
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Good Life Challenge
In this activity, learners connect individual actions that support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, (SDG).
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Exploring Fabrication - Self-Assembly
In this activity, learners will play several full-body interactive games to model the process of self-assembly in nature and nanotechnology.
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Sizing Things Down card game
In this activity, learners compete against each other (or you) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
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Exploring Materials - Hydrogel
In this activity, learners discover how a super absorbing material can be used to move a small object.
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Exploring Size - Powers of Ten Game
In this activity, learners compete to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
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Exploring Forces - Gravity
In this activity, learners will discover that size can affect the way materials like water behave.
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Try measuring little things!
In this activity, learners use a ruler to measure small things and consider the need for special measurement tools at the nanoscale.
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Building with Biology: Tech Tokens
In this activity, learners consider the potential advantages and disadvantages of various areas of synthetic biology research, before investing in them with "tech tokens."
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