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With many schools, museums, and science festivals still inaccessible due to COVID-19, now more than ever it’s great to be able to do some science at home! We’ve put together some fun experiments and demonstrations that you can do at home with common or easily-acquired ingredients. Click each square below to see printable instructions for the activity.

Kids, make sure an adult checks each activity for safety before you try anything by yourself!

Cabbage

Chocolate

Chromatography

Color Analysis

Thermodynamics

Passive Transport

S’mores

More Educational Resources

Over the years, we’ve collected a lot of educational resources like classroom activities and lesson plans related to our blog posts. They come from many different sources around the internet, and we’ve compiled them all here so you can explore hundreds of different activities for learning about various nano-related science topics! Many of these are aimed at teachers, but some will be fun for kids and families, too. Click the + sign on the right or the category name to expand each category and see the list of links.

Animals

Ocean Animals

Bioluminescence

Nature-inspired solutions

Nature-inspired solutions

  • Biomimicry: Synthetic Gecko Tape Through Nanomolding (NISEnet activity, ages 7+)
  • How mimicking nature inspires new inventions lesson plan (PBS NewsHour Extra, grades 9-12)
  • Art

    Chemistry

    Carbon

    Click Chemistry

    Elements

    Enzymes

    Fire

    Mole Day

    Reactions

    General

    Genetics

    Health and Human Body

    Antibiotics

    Blood

    Cancer

    Cells

    Ears

    Immune System

    Medicine

    Stomach

    Light and Optics

    Colors

    Light

    Optics

    Materials

    Aerogel

    Bog Bodies

    Carbon

    Consumer Products

    Minerals

    Math

    What’s in a Unit Anyway?

    Microscopes

    Movies

    Physical Properties

    Crystals

    Phases

    Water

    Nano

    Fun with Food

    Plants and Soil

    Recycling

    US Green Building Council Learning Lab (K-12)

    How to Talk about Science

    Water Pollution