Hands-On Activities

Want to be inventive at home or in the classroom? Try your hand at these fun hands-on activities!

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Cover of Let’s Go Shopping with Peter and Penny children’s book

In the Draper Spark!Lab at the National Museum of American History, we use books and stories to learn about inventors and their inventions and how...

Three-quarters profile view of a free-standing stereoscope. It has curved ornamental metal legs and a carved upright support. A stereograph is in place in the holder.

Seventeen-year-old Palmer Luckey built his first prototype for a virtual reality head-mounted display in his parents’ garage. Just a few years later...

Person's hands bending a flexible thin film solar panel

Nanotechnology is a very big word that, ironically, is used to describe the study of very small things. How small is nano exactly? Well, the nanoscale...

Curly parsley leaves

EXPLORE IT!Soilless Culture; Growing Green InnovationsBelieve it or not, some plants can grow without soil. This type of gardening is called...