What You'll Get
Build your own box! Choose five of these projects:
- Exploring Mazes: Create 2-D mazes and kick it up a notch with a 3-D maze integrated with your own storytelling!
- Exploring Bird Feeders: Research and observe birds in your community, and then build them a bird feeder.
- Exploring Musical Instruments: Learn the fundamentals of sound waves and experiment with homemade instruments.
- Exploring Parachutes: Learn about, design, and make various parachutes!
- Exploring Structure Testing: Explore how shapes affect the strength of a structure, and then build your own tower.
- Exploring Maps: Work with cardinal directions and compasses to read and orient maps, and then create a basic working compass.
- Exploring Hydraulics: Learn the difference between pneumatic and hydraulic systems – then, create your own hydraulically animated puppets to tell a story!
- Exploring Vehicles: Build and test vehicles to determine the variables that affect them.
- Exploring Flight: Experiment with paper airplanes to maximize their performance!
- Exploring 3-D Art: Engineer pop-up cards to explore how shapes interact with motion, and then use your new knowledge to convey a message.