Some of the activities on these pages are designed for GEMS club leaders, but girls, feel free to download, explore and have fun!

As most teachers do, I have collected many ideas over the years and am not sure that they are credited correctly. Please let me know if something on this site is yours, and I will be sure to credit you. And please credit me if you use mine.

More information on the Educator page

More activities always being added, so check back often.

Take-Home Sheets

I send these sheets full of links home with the girls so that they can investigate further at home with their parents. 

Changing states of matter

Edible concrete (based on an activity at the National Building Museum)

Paper Engineering and Origami

Windpower

Structures

Surface tension

Extracting DNA

Egg-Drop--Forces and Motion

Growing Crystals

Investing Neuroscience

Deconstructing Computers

Racing Bugs in Mazes

Binary Numbers and Computer Programming

Now We're Cooking!--Solar Ovens

Binary Numbers

Codes and Ciphers -- keeping your information private

Web sites with great activities

The Franklin Institute

The Exploratorium

National Air and Space Museum

Lawrence Hall of Science

Planet Science

Nanotechnology 

The JASON Project

Science Buddies

Design Squad

Kids Ahead

Lemelson Center's SPARK Lab

Games our clubs enjoy

Nim

Pentro

Seeing is Believing from AIMS

Math Activities

BBs in a Boat from AIMS

The Cool Cube from AIMS

Expect the Unexpected-- Math about insurance

MathBots --programming language from AIMS

Estimation Olympics from AIMS

Nickel and Dime Algebra from AIMS

Exploring Triangles

Tetrahedrons from AIMS

Math Moves U from Raytheon

PBS' Cyberchase

Refraction -- a fascinating game from the U. of Washington

Biology Activities

Gimme Five-a fingerprint activity

SuperPowers--a huge unit with many activities

Extracting DNA from bananas

Extracting DNA from strawberries

Edheads --our favorite is the operating room!

BirdSource -- great science out your window

The Molecularium --science in miniature

Chemistry Activities

Chromotography T-shirts--one of our perennial favorites

Iron-fortified Cereals (really!)

Break the tension

Play with your food (and learn about viscosity)

American Chemical Society's great site ( 3 examples here)

• Insulating properties
• Goop
• More bounce to the ounce

AIMS Activities: such a wonderful site

• Crazy colloids
• Flowfingers
• Geopanes

Physics Activities

Roller Coaster Investigations

Pinhole Cameras

Two more great activities from AIMS:

• Creating Clouds
• Mirror-mirror

 ASME-- a taste of their "Magic" activities

• Egg in the bottle
• Floating money

Stop the Melting! from Zoom

It is Rocket Science!

The Egg Drop Design Brief