Most of the activities on this page are designed for GEMS club leaders, but girls, feel free to download and explore!

As most teachers do, I have collected many ideas over the years and am not sure that they are credited correctly. Please let me know if something on this site is yours, and I will be sure to credit you. And please credit me if you use mine.

More activities always being added, so check back often.

Take-Home Sheets

I send these sheets full of links home with the girls so that they can investigate further at home with their parents. 

Changing states of matter

Edible concrete (based on an activity at the National Building Museum)

Paper Engineering and Origami

Windpower

Structures

Surface tension

Extracting DNA

Egg-Drop--Forces and Motion

Growing Crystals

Investing Neuroscience

Deconstructing Computers

Racing Bugs in Mazes

Binary Numbers and Computer Programming

Now We're Cooking!--Solar Ovens

Web sites with great activities

Biology Activities

Gimme Five-a fingerprint activity

SuperPowers--a huge unit with many activities

Extracting DNA from bananas

Extracting DNA from strawberries

Chemistry Activities

Crazy Colloids

FlowFingers from AIMS -- properties of liquids

GEMS Chromotography T-shirts

Geopanes from AIMS

Iron-fortified mysteries

Exploring surface tension

Play with your food(and learn about viscosity)

    Viscosity worksheet

    Viscosity student handout

Goop

More Bounce to the Ounce

Insulation properties

The last three are from the American Chemical Society's site for kids--you could run two years of GEMS clubs with these activities alone.

Physics Activities

Engineering Magic--Floating Dollars and Rubber Band Reels

Balloon Tug of War

Creating Clouds from AIMS

Egg Drop

Engineering Magic --Egg in a Bottle

Hot Air Balloons

Rocket Science --Blow Up Your Own

Stop the Melting!

Mailing Spaghetti--We also did this with Pringles and had more fun evaluating the results

Mirror-Mirror  from AIMS

Pinhole Cameras

Roller Coaster Investigations

     Design and Build

     Worksheet 1

     Worksheet 2

     Worksheet 3 

Computer Science and Technology

Microprocessor Fun

Building a Website--HTML

Alice Programming Software--download

Scratch Programming Software--download

Learning Animation with SAM

Stencyl--Advanced Video Game Creation--download