Acids and bases are important chemistry concepts that kids can enjoying learning about as they make their own sherbet to take home.

Build up your science with the “Architecture” show.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGNgqqRgR0w

What’s the matter? Everything is the matter, everything is made of matter, and Bill Nye will show you how.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sIUUg0s8GM

Static electricity can do some amazing things, find out how you can use it to bend a stream of water using just your hair and a comb.

Bicycles is the topic for this book because bikes are familiar to children from most cultures and also because they allow easy investigation into the concepts of levers, friction, and motion.

Bridges are so useful. People have been making them for thousands of years. It would be really good to have a bridge so I can keep my clean floor nice and clean :D But how do you make a really strong bridge?

Joe introduces you to a special word that will help you to build an awesome shelter to survive the night, and hopefully the rain! He has a little help from his friends "Survival Man" and Laura. These are great skills for taking into the outdoors on your next adventure.

Ahoy there, matey. Come aboard Captain Nye’s Buoyant Barge of Science. There’s no swabbing the decks or battening down the hatches just the science of floating.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZBusjP0uw

Nanogirl finds out if we can make plastic that's not so bad for the environment.

What a mess! Someone’s left out frozen milk, smeared melted chocolate around, spilt white crystals everywhere and what’s that smell? Investigate the elements of the mess scene and find out exactly what’s happening!

What effect does salt have on the temperature of ice? This lesson plan and activity will let students experiment for themselves. What outcomes and reasoning will they come up with?

Explore the topic of space in this fun, hands-on STEM lesson. Available free for teachers, it includes curriculum-matched teaching notes.

What doesn’t breathe but can’t live without air, doesn’t drink but needs water near, never sleeps and won’t rest much, is stronger than steel, but crumbles at a touch?

A class arrives at school to find their room transformed into a laboratory and their teacher transformed into an animal dental hygiene scientist. The zoo asks them to invent a recipe for elephant toothpaste.

Te Papa conservator Rangi Te Kanawa uses her knowledge of traditional dyeing practices, science, and scientific experimentation to preserve fibres in textiles that have been dyed using iron-tannate black dyes.

Shoes made from chewing gum? Jackets made from drink bottles? Go beyond the recycling bins and find out how everyday objects and materials can be broken down and made into something new.

Glue plus borax and a few basic ingredients equals a whole lot of squishy fun with this crazy putty experiment.

Students work in small groups to research energy-efficient house design and passive solar energy. They share their research findings, develop a design for an energy-efficient house and construct a model energy-efficient house from materials supplied, then explain their model to the class.

Do oranges float or sink in water? Time to find out with this fun science experiment related to density.

Use this recipe to make your own glowing slime – just like our Latia – freshwater snails!

Design and build something that can safely protect an egg from smashing all over the ground with this fun egg drop project for kids.

Investigate energy, how it is created and how it is transferred and transformed and foil the evil plans of Professor Pitch Black and her sidekick Short Circuit!

This book provides rich opportunities for children to carry out scientific investigations into fabrics in order to clarify and expand their conceptions about them. The topic of fabrics integrates with the technology and social studies curricula.

The complexity of this investigation encourages students to begin to think critically about the design and results of the investigation.