Parents and Guardians

Bring to life the importance of DNA with a simple at-home experiment in which students will learn how to extract DNA from strawberries. Using only a few basic ingredients, students will create an experiment that allows them to see the action of DNA in a glass using only the naked eye. 

Show students how scientists race around the clock in the fight against a pandemic in this exciting Escape Room activity. Students will tackle a real-world scenario involving a global pandemic to learn about the health risks of influenzas and discover the various approaches to stopping the spread of disease.    

Dive into the importance of water purity with a household experiment in which families work to successfully filter water using household materials. 

Refresh your understanding of personal water consumption by diving into the subject of handwashing in people’s day-to-day lives.

Delve into the challenges of irrigation in agriculture, industry, and at home by designing an irrigation system from recycled household items.

Become a family travel agency and virtual tourists for a day by planning a journey to a special destination anywhere in the world. 

Reevaluate the everyday products you love by considering the effectiveness of their packaging, then explore your own improvements. 

Erect an earthquake-resistant homemade structure out of household materials, then test the durability of what you built by shaking things up! 

Breathe new life into daily wellbeing by designing simple 15-minute exercises that help encourage one hour or more of physical activity per day. 

Revitalize everyday household chores by engineering a simple series of chain reactions that accomplish normal tasks in imaginative ways. 

Get a taste for balanced nutritional choices by cooking up your own original recipe incorporating ingredients from the five key food groups. 

Think outside-the-box as a team by researching a topic that has special meaning to your family, then turn what you learned into a fun new game. 

Stay practical in achieving your goals by thinking about purchasing your own vehicle, and how long that would take you to accomplish. 

Use yourself as an example to understand the remarkable capacity of human beings to walk great distances throughout their lives. 

Think like an astronaut as you plan an interstellar voyage from your hometown to the moon, focusing on the crucial question of travel time. 

Investigate the energy requirements necessary to support your community and evaluate how you could be using energy more efficiently. 

Consider the amount of time you commit to social media in order to gain new perspective on the value of communication in your life. 

Explore the science behind community planning by imagining the potential a limited space has to support a large population.

Nature acts as an inspiration for many designs and innovations. One example is how airplanes have taken the shape of birds.

Get up to speed on the properties of horsepower with an energizing activity that sheds light on the connection between personal habits and energy use.

Practice essential design and management skills as a family by crafting a neat dome structure in your home built out of recycled paper products.

Bring the power of programming to life around the house with a fun activity that combines creative storytelling and computational thinking.

Reinforce responsible and effective online communication by creating a thought-provoking Paper Slide Video that you can share with others.

Witness the amazing properties of everyday liquids interacting with one another to learn how liquid refinement can be used in industry and homes.

Get involved in timely sustainability topics by exploring the collective recycling habits of your town over the course of a single week. 

Give your kitchen scraps a new life by regrowing them into full plants. See what you have in your kitchen and follow the directions below.

Think more critically about how your household uses energy with a simple experiment to identify the most energy-consuming appliance in the house.

Explore the sustainability of everyday materials by creating a makeshift fabric from recycled plastic that can be used in artwork, fashion, and accessories.