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A young girl makes a grimacing face after tasting something bitter

Bitter Taste Gene

A camp counselor and young student standing in a stream examining a rock.

Stream Health

A series of animal skulls on a black background

Animal Skulls

A series of human skulls on a black background

Hominin Skulls

Flashlight patterns of Ursa Major and Leo.

Flashlight Constellations

Kids building an air pressure rocket out of foam

Air Pressure Rockets

Picture of a s'more - melted marshmallow and chocolate between graham crackers.

Solar Oven S’mores

Excited kids show off an egg that they will try to protect with their egg lander design.

Mars Egg Lander

Closeup of a camouflaged butterfly.

Magnificent Mimicry

Closeup of leaves and their veins.

Do leaves breathe?

Closeup of a bard owl's face.

Owl Pellets

Photo looking down on several pots with green shoots starting to emerge from the soil.

Can you "water" plants with other liquids?

Girl wearing safety glasses holds up a cup of orange juice containing an animal tooth for testing.

Dental Decay

Kids with their hands in oobleck

Oobleck

A young girl mixes up pancake ingredients on top of a large sheet of paper with the recipe and measurements.

Pancake Science

Overhead picture of a box of a dozen eggs.

Bouncing Egg

Cooling rack containing a bunch of swirly top meringues.

Marvelous Meringues

Homemade fizzies creating bubbles in the bathtub.

Bath Fizzies

A measuring cup, jar, and seeds for creating a seed growing experiment.

Watch a Seed Grow

A kid drops food coloring onto a red plastic plate containing milk and observes the resultant patterns.

Magic Milk

The bottom of a toy truck being converted into a pull back car with a plastic coil.

Pull Back Cars

Kids outside on a lawn making plaster casts is aluminum baking pans.

Plaster Casting

Different plants in jars with dyed water display a broad range of colors.

How do plants "drink" water?

A young scientist holds up a dry ice comet in front of a light bulg.

Make a Comet

Glass full of water with some raisins next to it and superimposed with the text, ''I'm ready to bust some moves on the dance floor

Dancing Raisins

Kid relaxing in a cross-legged position preparing to have her blood pressure measured.

Blood Pressure

Kid playing with smooshy slime over a baking sheet.

Smooshy Slime

Ziploc bag laying in the grass exploding with a chemical reaction.

Exploding Baggies

Photo of a bumbleebee and a superimposed checklist of behaviors - collecting pollen, flying, sitting on flowers, and cleaning its head or body.

Bumblebee Bonanza

Showing off a lemon wired as a battery

Lemon Batteries

A foaming fountain contained inside a tinfoil pan.

Foam Fountain

Horses on a paper version of a carousel.

Energy Carousel

A jumble of colorful popsicle sticks exploding into the air.

Popsicle Stick Explosion

Colorful construction paper cut into hearts, squares, and triangles.

Pattern Power

Colorful layers of dyed water in a vase.

Density Tower

A plate of bright red strawberries prepped for DNA extraction.

Strawberry DNA

A girl holds up a container with green beverage and smiles to show that her teeth have been stained green.

Backwash

Setup of mint candies about to be dropped into carbonated cola.

Mentos® Explosion

Sorted blocks stacked on a floor.

Simple Sorting at Home

A youngster pours water into her filter

Water Filter

Closeup of kids making square bubbles with a cube made out of straws.

Square Bubbles

Different bracelets with colorful beads in repeating patterns.

Binary Bracelets

Plastic tray full of water on the pavement with words written to the sides saying sink and float

Sink or Float

Kids preparing to catch a dropping ruler to measure reaction time.

Reaction Time

Caterpillar eating a leaf

Caterpillar Senses

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