120 hands-on experiments, engineering builds, and Olympiad-inspired challenges for Grades 1 to 12.
29 projects
Build trains of colored blocks that follow a pattern and figure out what comes next.
20 to 35 min · 2 materialsView projectRun a pretend shop and find the fewest coins to make each price and give back change.
30 to 45 min · 5 materialsView projectLift fingerprints with cocoa powder and tape and sort them into arches, loops and whorls.
35 to 50 min · 6 materialsView projectFold paper strips into halves, thirds, fourths and more, and use them to compare and match fractions.
35 to 55 min · 5 materialsView projectUse rows of counters to see multiplication, and discover why 3 times 4 equals 4 times 3.
30 to 45 min · 3 materialsView projectCut a tangram puzzle into seven pieces and rearrange them to make animals, houses and shapes that share the same area.
30 to 45 min · 3 materialsView projectSolve and invent puzzles that use clues and a grid to work out who owns what.
35 to 55 min · 4 materialsView projectPlace the numbers 1 to 9 in a grid so every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total.
30 to 50 min · 3 materialsView projectAct out handshakes with friends and discover the pattern behind counting pairs.
30 to 45 min · 4 materialsView projectFind the shape of rectangular garden that gives the most room when you have a fixed amount of fence.
40 to 65 min · 5 materialsView projectPick a question about everyday life, design a fair experiment to answer it, and present your results.
60 to 90 min · 4 materialsView projectPlay a two-dice game, collect the results, and discover which player has the better chance of winning.
40 to 60 min · 3 materialsView projectWrite step-by-step commands to guide a human robot through a floor maze, then improve your code with loops.
40 to 60 min · 4 materialsView projectWrite instructions for building a hidden object so well that a partner can rebuild it without ever seeing it.
40 to 60 min · 5 materialsView projectUse five cards to count, convert and send secret messages in binary, the language computers use.
45 to 70 min · 4 materialsView projectSeparate the colors in black pens with paper chromatography to find which pen wrote a mystery note.
40 to 60 min · 6 materialsView projectDiscover a simple idea that guarantees surprising facts, such as two people in a class sharing a birthday month.
40 to 60 min · 3 materialsView projectMake secret messages with a Caesar cipher and crack coded messages using letter frequency.
40 to 70 min · 4 materialsView projectDiscover systematic ways to count arrangements and selections, and use them to solve olympiad-style problems.
50 to 80 min · 3 materialsView projectDiscover why you can test for divisibility by 3 and 9 by adding digits, and prove it.
45 to 75 min · 3 materialsView projectDecide whether a route can cross every bridge once and discover the rule that solves every such puzzle.
50 to 80 min · 4 materialsView projectExplore arithmetic that wraps around like a clock and use it to solve remainder and last digit puzzles.
50 to 80 min · 3 materialsView projectDraw polygons on dot paper, count points, and discover a formula for area using only dots.
50 to 90 min · 4 materialsView projectEncrypt with a keyword and break the cipher by splitting the message and using frequency analysis on each part.
1 to 1.7 hr · 4 materialsView projectEduVistaHQ.com · Learn • Explore • Grow. Olympiad-inspired activities are practice for the skills those competitions use. EduVistaHQ is not affiliated with Science Olympiad or any other competition organization.