Students gain valuable experiences while making and tinkering. Educators can use this framework to notice, support, document, and design assessments for student learning—and to reflect on how your ...

Use homemade conductive and resistant play-doh to build electronic sculptures that light up, move, and make sounds. Anyone who has ever tasted play-doh knows that it’s a salty substance. The salt ...

The Tinkering Studio group is first and foremost a Research and Development program within the Exploratorium dedicated to developing hands-on activities that explore learning and creativity through ...

Paul Doherty on The Late Show with David Letterman (1996) ...

Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age By Area: 1984 - 2016 ...

Immersive celebration of space science and art runs from February 15 through April 27 SAN FRANCISCO (January 14, 2025) – This spring, experience our solar system like never before at the Exploratorium ...

We’re bringing the eclipse experience to you! Journey to the path of a total solar eclipse in this brand-new experience. Dive into the sights and sounds of an eclipse, and immerse yourself in one of ...

In December last year, the Tinkering Studio made its long-awaited return to the Exploratorium’s series of 21+ evening events called After Dark. For it, we wanted to honor the latest iteration of the ...

Discover real-time locations of Mars rovers, landers, and orbiters. Developed by NASA, the Mars Relay Network helps us to better understand the red planet by passing information between Earth and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (January 23, 2025) – The Exploratorium, San Francisco’s iconic museum of science, art, and human perception, has been named one of the Best Science Museums in the United States by USA ...

Meet Perseverance, Sojourner, Odyssey, and more. These orbiters and rovers help us learn about space from right here on Earth. Check out their impressive scale in person and learn about their function ...

SAN FRANCISCO (January 24, 2025) – The Exploratorium and ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi are proud to announce the revival of ‘Never Lost,’ one of the few bilingual (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi/English) ...