Hands-On Science Education Activities

Group of children engaging in various educational activities, including nature walks, pottery making, and scientific measurements, promoting learning through interactive experiences.

Girl hammering nails into birdhouse

NASA Earth Day Exhibits. Visitors explore NASAs hands-on exhibits during an Earth Day event, Thursday, April 20, 2023, at Union Station in Washington.

USA, Florida, Ichetucknee State Park, Ichetucknee Spring, Group of chidren on science filed trip writing down reading from specialist measuring equipement

Playing with clay teaches children of the Southwest traditional pottery making skills. Hopi Indian Festival at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff

USA, Florida, Ichetucknee State Park, Ichetucknee Spring, Group of chidren on science filed trip writing in their copy books

Classroom of children enjoy an educational nature walk. Subjects: Aquatic birds; Aquatic environments; Aquatic plants; Banks; Birds; Children; Coastal environments; Connecting people with nature; Education; Education outreach; Emblems; Employees (USFWS); Environmental education; Environments (Natural); Exhibitions; Icon. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: J.N. 'DING' DARLING NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Glasperlen Workshop Glasperlen Workshop für Kinder. Glasperlen werden hergestellt, indem farbiges Glas in einer Flamme geschmolzen und um einen Perlendorn gewickelt wird, der das Loch der Perle ergibt. Glass beads workshop for children. Glass beads are made by melting colored glass in a flame and wrapping around a bead location that results in the hole of the bead. ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/IngridxRuchx 21628050 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Girl hammering nails into birdhouse

U.S. Marines and their families participate in the United Service Organizations (USO) Amazing Race competition on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, April 29, 2022. The completion consisted of ten challenges that included charades, a modified combat fitness test, a cookie face race, a blindfolded puzzle solve, a penny search challenge, a chopstick stacking challenge, an obstacle course, and other activities. The goal was to complete all ten challenges and arrive at Butler Stadium in the least amount of time.

Oaxaca, Mexico, Students painting at a temporary art class in the zocalo, Central America

First grade students from PS 14X go birding in Central Park in New York on Thursday, May 20, 2010. The students participate in LeAp's Active Learning Leads to Literacy Program, a program that teachers literacy through the arts. The students hand crafted their binoculars out of toilet paper tubes. (© Frances M. Roberts)

Young students during outdoor drawing class. American School in London, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Walters and Cohen Ltd, 2016.

Biloxi, Miss., April 24, 2014 -- Madison Pickett examines artifacts during FEMA's Bring Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Artifacts were found by FEMA Archaeologists in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. Neily Chapman/FEMA

NASA Officials, LEGO Group management, students, teachers and parents create their vision of the future in space with LEGO bricks and elements as part of a Build the Future” activity inside a tent that was set up on the launch viewing area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. NASA and The LEGO Group signed a Space Act Agreement to spark children's interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Students participate in the JASON Project's 2004-05 expedition, `Disappearing Wetlands' at SSC, conducting field lab experiments and watching live broadcasts from JASON Expedition Louisiana research sites.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SMITHSONIAN SUMMER CAMP

USA, Florida, Ichetucknee State Park, Ichetucknee Spring, Group of chidren on science filed trip measuring turtle

Junior Girl Scouts from two locals conceils, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and Girl Scouts of NationsCapital, participated in She's an Engineer! Girl Scout program on November 3, 2016. They met with female NASA engineers and tested rover models in simulated I&T stations to explore the Engineering Design process.

Ninth grade students from Chandler Park Academy, studying the ecology of the Rouge River, as part of the annual Rouge Education Project in which students monitor biological, chemical, and physical characteristics of the river, Redford, Michigan, USA, America, North America

Students prepare to load fluids in their experiment apparatus during the Microgravity Environment (DIME) competition held April 23-25, 2002, at NASA's Glenn Research Center. Competitors included two teams from Sycamore High School, Cincinnati, OH, and one each from Bay High School, Bay Village, OH, and COSI Academy, Columbus, OH. DIME is part of NASA's education and outreach activities. Details are on line at http //microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/DIME_2002.html.

Group of 5th grade students in an environmental outdoor educational setting in the Sandia Mountains.

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A visitor learns about circuits at the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary celebration on the National Mall, Friday, July 19, 2019 in Washington. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon and launched on July 16, 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.

School children on a field trip at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

More than 180 seventh grade students from Heritage Middle School experienced science through a hands-on field trip at the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area within the Idaho National Guards Orchard Combat Training Center April 28-29. The Idaho National Guard partnered with Boise State University, University of Idaho, the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission and Idahos Bureau of Land Management to bring science education to Treasure Valley students through its Adopt a Scientist program. Additionally, the program brings a greater understanding of the Idaho National Guards environmental stewardship and increases connectivity between students and Idaho researchers with field trips throughout the year at the OCTC. The NCA is home to the largest and most diverse population of breeding raptors in North America and one of the only places where military training, extensive research, public land use and livestock share the same land. Biologists from the Idaho A

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SMITHSONIAN SUMMER CAMP

Members of Americorps and other volunteers make blankets for the homeless as part of a community service project on the Martin Luther King holiday, Ecorse, Michigan, USA, North America

Participants conclude the African American Heritage Councils Walk In Their Shoes event by signing a Juneteenth memorial poster at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, June 15, 2022. The AAHC promotes diversity and inclusion around Spangdahlem by hosting events and discussions designed to start meaningful conversations on diversity.

USA, Florida, Ichetucknee State Park, Ichetucknee Spring, Boy and girl on science filed trip measuring turtle

Discovery Tidepool Ehibit, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate park, San Francisco, California, USA

Children play a game to earn a free toothbrush at the Community Back 2 School Pep Rally at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 19, 2022. The pep rally, hosted by the Dover Parent Advisory Board, offered helping agency resources for parents, free school supplies and family friendly games.

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) forensic anthropologists brief students from the Aliamanu Middle School on anatomy and different techniques used to identify personnel during their visit to the DPAA facilities on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 16, 2024. The agency participated in its second Student Summit Career Day to engage with the local community and educate students on identification and recovery operations. Forensic anthropologists, underwater and terrestrial archaeologists and isotope preparation scientists led students through simulated hands-on techniques and briefs to share more about the agencys mission. Marine Corps

Volunteers with the Porter Youth Center Youth Sponsorship Program make welcome bags for youths who are new to the community, Ord Military Community, Calif., Sept. 1.

Garden of children with paint

High angle view of a girl with her hands on the table for a manicure

Girl, children and art on ground with chalk at school for learning, diversity and creativity. Group, drawing and happy in sunshine on sidewalk, path and writing for shape, lines or pattern at academy

First Lady Michelle Obama colors props for a theater production with children during a visit to the Naval Air Station Oceana Summer Camp in Virginia Beach, Va., July 21, 2011.

150912-N-XQ474-184 PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (Sept. 12, 2015) Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Geritt Furda, assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), colors with a patient at a medical site established at St. Luc Hospital in support of Continuing Promise 2015. Continuing Promise is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet-conducted deployment to conduct civil-military operations including humanitarian-civil assistance, subject matter expert exchanges, medical, dental, veterinary and engineering support and disaster response to partner nations and to show U.S. support and commitment to Central and South America and the Caribbean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Andrew Schneider/Released)

A child touches a Starfish at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Science. San Francisco, California

Students, parents and teachers work on the garden at the 24th Street School garden on Big Sunday, the largest annual citywide community service event in America, West Adams, Los Angeles, California, USA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SMITHSONIAN SUMMER CAMP

Several teammates from the Louisville District Engineering Division volunteered for Engineering Days at the Louisville Science Center Feb. 16-17, 2024. Army Corps of Engineers

Young girls exploring invertebrates, Yukon Outdoor School Program, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, DFO, McIntyre Creek hatchery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, North America

School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA

Photo essay at the Monteclair institute, in France, which propose different services to develop and to improve the independency and autonomy of visually impaired persons. SAAAIS (Service of Autonomy Acquisition Support and School Integration) is a service dedicated for children and teenagers age of 6 to 20 years old in the department of Maine and Loire in France, who are integrated into the public or private mainstream system (schools, colleges, high schools) in the proximity of their home. The professionals are in charged with providing for children and teenagers access to maximum independency and autonomy in daily living situations, into the family field, in the sportive and leisure activities, in relations with the others. Maxime revises the relief maps that he will use to take the General Certificate Secondary Education.

Disabled man and woman working in workshop

Museum Volunteers Bill Filbert, with the Hampton Roads Naval Museum (HRNM), and Stella Lonzanida, daughter of HRNM Public Affairs Officer Max Lonzanida, interact with visitors and fans at the Norfolk Tides baseball stadium during Navy Night on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Visitors to the outreach booth received information about the museums exhibit “The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam, 1950-1975,” along with educational materials.

Children from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington, D.C. help First Lady Michelle Obama plant the White House Vegetable Garden, April 9, 2009.

Group leaders lead a discussion with students during Camp Pendletons Vacation Bible School at the Blinder Memorial Chapel on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 1, 2022. VBS is a weeklong camp for children from kindergarten through 5th grade that consists of worship sessions, snack time and multiple activity stations. These activities are intended to help children build character and moral ideas by strengthening their connection to their religion with guidance from the base chaplains.

Young boy constructing woodwork

Volunteer teaches backyard habitat techniques to students at Sasabe, AZ school. Subjects: Volunteers; Connecting people with nature; Youth. Location: Arizona. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BUENOS AIRES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Tornado - Auburn, Ala. , September 2, 2011 - Auburn University students and professors raise the walls of a FEMA DAWG HAUS. The DAWG HAUS or Disaster Avoidance With Good Home Attenuating-Unionization System is a wind-resistant techniques of building. After an outbreak of tornados swept through Alabama in April, Auburn's Integrated Design and Construction students have an opportunity to exchange ideas with FEMA's mitigation team. The university hopes the students will integrate these concepts in future projects, designing and building a safer world. FEMA Photo/Ruth Kennedy. Alabama Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Straight-line Winds. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SMITHSONIAN SUMMER CAMP

A teacher and her fifth grade student working together on a ceramics project in the classroom.

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Children prepare to plant trees in their schoolyard. Subjects: Children; Environmental education; Connecting people with nature; Trees. Location: Maryland. Collection: Environmental Sciences.

Children placing aquatic plants in their schoolyard wetland habitat. Subjects: Children; Environmental Education; Wetland restoration; Aquatic plants; Connecting people with nature. Location: Maryland. Collection: Environmental Sciences.

Tech. Sgt. Jasper Davis, 8th Maintenance Squadron senior munitions inspector, accepts a painting palette during the Paint N Sip class at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 22, 2022. There is no experience level required to take the class so instructors provide hands on assistance, such as preparing supplies and offering advice when painting commences so attendees can flourish at their own pace.

Refuge Centennial Programs; Refuge Systems; Horicon NWR; Molly Stoddard. Subjects: Wildlife refuges; Maps; Children. Location: Wisconsin. . 1998 - 2011.

Junior Girl Scouts from two locals conceils, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and Girl Scouts of NationsCapital, participated in She's an Engineer! Girl Scout program on November 3, 2016. They met with female NASA engineers and tested rover models in simulated I&T stations to explore the Engineering Design process.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astronaut Hall of Fame near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, fifth- through eighth-grade students and their parents participate in an air rocket experiment during the last NASA family education night event. Other activities included "gee-whiz" presentations, astronaut appearances, a hovercraft, vortex cannon and alternative fuel vehicles, which promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.The event is part of NASA's Summer of Innovation initiative to provide interactive learning experiences to middle school students nationwide during the summer months. The program is a cornerstone of the Educate to Innovate campaign announced by President Barack Obama in November 2009.

Children from Team Little Rock paint each others faces during a Kids Understanding Deployment Operations event at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, April 2, 2022. KUDOS is a program developed to provide military children with a deeper understanding of their parents deployment experiences in a fun and interactive way.

Children's cooking class, Aula de Cuina de l´Emporda, culinary school specializing in Catalonian food, Calella de Palafrugell, Costa Blanca, Spain, Europe

Camp Warrior kids get acquainted with snakes and learn about wildlife during the course of their one-week, sleep-away camp.

Anniston, Ala., June 26, 2013 Sara Welch, age 15, from Jacksonville, and a student with the Junior Law Enforcement Academy sketches a simulated explosion scene and marks the area for evidence. The CDP hosted 13 teenagers from the 2013 Junior Law Enforcement Academy recently. CDP staff members provided instruction regarding active shooter scenarios in their schools and how to preserve and collect evidence and triage survivors in a mass casualty event.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Girls studying rocks together, overhead view

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SMITHSONIAN SUMMER CAMP

A Daisy Girl Scout from kindergarten or first grade and another volunteer help plant onions in a garden sponsored by DTE Energy that will grow produce for the Gleaners Community Food Bank, Southfield, Michigan, USA, North America

Ames Family Day Picnic in celebration of NASA's 50th Anniversary NOTE ACD08-0181-072 thru -080 taken by Summer Photo Intern Nick Tran.

Mexico City's Papalote Children's Museum features hi-tech and entertaining educational displays and activities for children and adults.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Kentucky, where he joined First Lady Laura Bush, Historic Site Superintendent Keith Pruitt, and Libby O'Connell, Chief Historian of A and E Television's History Channel, for tours, remarks, interactions with National Park Service staff and visitors

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Mandated by higher HQ to offer summer activities for military youth, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Youth Services, took advantage of the week long Culinary Camp, taught by Mr. Aaron Reaven with ìChef-K,î a culinary health education course for childern. The kids read recipes for blanching peaches and apricots for a glazed ham, steamed snap peas, and baked sweet potatoes while learning health, nutrition, and food safety, culminating in a tasting feast of the days fixings, July 28, 2010.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SMITHSONIAN SUMMER CAMP

National Boating and Fishing Week June 2004. Creator: Walton, LaVonda. Descriptive Note: Young first-time anglers get a chance to get up close and personal with a catfish at the National Fishing and Boating Week in Washington D.C ELECTRONIC IMAGE ONLY (No slide or print available). Subjects: Fishing; Fisheries management; Volunteers; Education; Training; Education outreach; Electronic; Washington DC; Constitution Gardens. . 1998 - 2011.

Watering plants. School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles.

NASA Officials, LEGO Group management, students, teachers and parents create their vision of the future in space with LEGO bricks and elements as part of a Build the Future” activity inside a tent that was set up on the launch viewing area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. NASA and The LEGO Group signed a Space Act Agreement to spark children's interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Detroit, Michigan, Silas Houle, 8, puts together pieces of a tiny house at the Carpenters Union's Schools to Tools Mobile Experience. The project aims to interest young people in skilled trades carpenter and millwright jobs

Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest event at Main Interior, with Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett among the Interior officials on hand

Cute young girls in a clay studio

A youth creates a work of sand art as another week of summer comes to an end at the Thomas Lee Hall (Post) Library. The art project is one of the final events of the Read Beyond the Beaten Path summer reading program.

Soldiers with the U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys' Better Opportunity for Single Soldiers (BOSS) program decorate masks with children from the Ikseonwon orphanage in Cheonan, Feb. 24, 2024, during a visit to the orphanage. The Soldiers participated in arts and crafts and played games with the children as part of their community outreach program in partnership with the U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys public affairs office. Army

Boy interactive exhibit at G.Wiz Hands On Science Museum, Sarasota Florida

Students picking lettuce to prepare salad under direction of Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kassat, White House, Washington D.C.

National Fishing Week in Washington DC. Creator: Walton, LaVonda. Subjects: Education; Education outreach; Training; Children; Fishing. . 1998 - 2011.

Following two years of virtual events, high school and college teams from across the country return to Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, to compete in NASAÕs Student Launch rocketry competition April 23.

Education , Primary, Field Trip, 'Pond Dipping Activity. Children With Adult Inspecting A Fishing Net To Identify Species Of Aquatic Life From Worksheets In Ecological Study . Norfolk, England.'

Keller Williams volunteers help clean up at John Adams Middle School in Santa Monica. More than 30,000 associates from Keller Williams Realty across the United States and Canada participate in the third annual RED Day, May 12, 2011.

Young girls exploring invertebrates, Yukon Outdoor School Program, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, DFO, McIntyre Creek hatchery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, North America

School children are taught to build their own spacecraft and habitat during a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education event held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Arlington, VA on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. Students were able to meet with Astronaut Leland Melvin, conduct experiments, build their own space jab, and touch a mockup space suit.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Kentucky, where he joined First Lady Laura Bush, Historic Site Superintendent Keith Pruitt, and Libby O'Connell, Chief Historian of A and E Television's History Channel, for tours, remarks, interactions with National Park Service staff and visitors

Students learn about fish species at the 2009 Nation's River Bass Tournament. Subjects: Children; Connecting people with nature; Recreation; Environmental education. Location: Maryland. . 1998 - 2011.

Administrator Mike Leavitt meets Radon Poster winners , Environmental Protection Agency

After eight months of designing, building and testing, the middle school, high school and college and university teams launched their rockets as part of NASA Student Launch on Sunday, April 8. The rockets and their payloads are designed to fly to 1-mile in altitude before deploying recovery systems that brings them safely to the ground.

Students, parents and teachers work on the garden at the 24th Street School garden on Big Sunday, the largest annual citywide community service event in America, West Adams, Los Angeles, California, USA

Children spot birds on a bird watching tour through the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Subjects: Birdwatching; Birds; Children; Education; Education outreach; Events; Recreation; Work of the Service. Location: Pennsylvania. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: JOHN HEINZ NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AT TINICUM.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Middle and High school students from Florida's Putnam and Volusia counties use a bicycle wheel as a gyroscope to simulate principals of motion during a science demonstration at the NASA's Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center. The 11 to 18-year-old students are part of Delta Academy and Delta GEMS, an African American womens mentoring program affiliated with Delta Sigma Theta. The sorority uses their collective efforts to promote academic excellence, provide scholarships and support underserved students. As a part of the science program, the young scholars participated in a presentation by professional women who work at Kennedy discussing career choices and encouraging interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM careers.

Madison Wilkerson, a student from the Intro to Meteorology course at Yuma Catholic High School, inflates a weather balloon at the Aux II training range, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, May 13, 2022. The purpose of the field trip was to educate students on the capabilities of the U.S. Marine Corps weather technology.

Detroit, Michigan, Silas Houle, 8, and a Carpenters Union official put together pieces of a tiny house at the Carpenters Union's Schools to Tools Mobile Experience. The project aims to interest young people in skilled trades carpenter and millwright jobs

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