Idea Sheets

Fill the pages of this clipboard journal with thoughts, drawings, poems, plant rubbings, and observations from day or overnight journeys to the great outdoors.
Subjects: Life Science, Earth/Space Science, Language Arts

Students create a 3-dimensional representation of the closest stars in this activity that demonstrates the scale and structure of space and our Milky Way galaxy.
Subjects: Earth/Space Science, Math

Learn to use the universal codon table to assemble a wearable amino acid chain!
Subjects: Life Science

Young learners experience the joy of discovery while they experiment with mixing colored water. An enjoyable activity for tactile learners and also visually pleasing!
Subjects: Physical Science, Life Science, Art

These little disks are polarizing filters that have tape adhered to them. When two are held up to a light source, wonderful, color mosaics are created.
Subjects: Physical Science

Students match colors and color words as they play this easy-to-make game.
Subjects: Physical Science, Math, Language Arts

Children will create secondary colors by mixing primary colored (safe-to-eat) "pudding" in a reclosable bag.
Subjects: Physical Science

This kaleidoscope has no tube or object chamber and thus is much simpler to put together. A turning colored disk is the source of the reflected patterns.
Subjects: Physical Science, Math

We live in a colorful world! Beautiful, colorful things, like seashells and opals, seem to shimmer in the light, producing an array of bright colors. In this activity, students can produce colors on cardstock, using the same principles of physics that oysters and abalone use to make their pearls or colorful shells.
Subjects: Physical Science, Life Science, Art

Expose this wonderful paint to water and the sun. "Sun- masked" paint fades and "sun-exposed" areas become dark, creating wonderful sun-imprinted images.
Subjects: Physical Science, Art

Mix colors easily by spinning. The resulting color will exist only in your mind!
Subjects: Physical Science, Life Science

White light is actually a combination of different colors. This easy-to-build spectroscope creates a rainbow pattern (spectrum) by separating incoming light into its component colors. The interesting patterns it displays can be used to identify different sources of light. Experiment with a variety of colored filters and see how the images change!
Subjects: Physical Science

Challenge a group of students to make attribute connections with objects so that they are able to "link" the random items together into a circle.
Subjects: Physical Science, Math

Demonstrate the commutative property of multiplication by arranging the same number of "chocolate chips" on two different batches of "cookies".
Subjects: Math

Corral a compass rose and allow a needle to rotate smoothly by using marbles!
Subjects: Physical Science, Earth/Space Science