Do you wish you could add a little Spark to your home? Well, now you can by creating your very own science exhibit prototype! This guide will walk you through the ins and outs of creating an engaging, interactive, science exhibit that you and your audience will love.

Imagine your parents have asked you to create an “elevator pitch” for a vacation with your family, but to convince them, you have to “wow” them! Where do you want to explore most of all? What culture intrigues you? What food do you want to taste? Where would you wake up? What would you see and hear?

Find magic and awe in doing almost nothing. If someone were watching you, they would think you were doing nothing. But, in fact, the opposite will be true -- you will be observing a miraculous world up close! This program is deceptively simple. Get ready to have your mind blown open and for calm and creativity to come inside.

Build a mini-gallery of your science-inspired art at home! With careful observation and creativity, you can build a science-inspired art exhibit at home. Organize an opening reception with drinks and snacks and share your discoveries with an artist talk.

Create a series of clues with your larger-than-life fingerprints to help someone solve the mystery of its disappearance!

Be inspired by one of these great structures and build something at home. This is a playful way to learn about different elements in the building process, that ranges from the feelings that a building creates, to the selection and evaluation of materials, and the relationship between design and testing.

Almost every living thing on earth has a place it calls home. Many birds build their own homes, just like people do. Their nests need to be strong enough to survive outside and big enough to hold a small family of nestlings.

Birds are amazing natural engineers. Are your students? Create your best nest and put it to the test!

Find science around home by investigating the secrets of objects. While spending time at home or at school you might come across some mysterious objects. Your family has already strongly said “Don’t break anything! Be careful! Don’t take it apart!” What do you do? Come up with a plan to discover an object’s secrets.

Take a time machine into the future and design what the time capsule looked like and collect the treasures inside.

Belgian artist Vincent Bal has found a passion for what he calls “shadowology” – that is, studying the shadows of objects and finding their hidden personalities. This activity is a quick and fun way to learn about opaque, translucent and transparent objects and how light interacts with these objects to create shadows.

An alien species has crash landed on Earth! Help them become accustomed to their temporary home by creating a dichotomous key. You will help the aliens identify some common terrestrial objects using this key. Learn how real biologists use these tools to identify living things and discover new species!

Build a ridiculous machine that will make you smile! A Rube Goldberg machine is an example of a hacked mechanical device that is “over engineered” to perform a simple task in a very complicated way. Learn about different concepts of physics, including forces, momentum and the conservation of energy.

Hide a treasure in your yard or neighbourhoos, and see if people can fit it, using your map. Cartography is the study and practice of making maps. For this activity, you’ll plan and cr eate a scavenger hunt in your local neighbourhood creating a homemade map.

Gather your family team and learn about flight, aerodynamics, and building with a variety of different materials in a fun and active way. If at first you don’t succeed – fly, fly again.

After billions of years of evolution, nature has demonstrated that animals, plants, and microorganisms can engineer brilliant solutions to problems presented by their abiotic environments. You can put nature to the test through biomimicry by creating an outfit for an animal-themed superhero of your own design.

Discover the secrets skeletons reveal. Using a human skull as your guide, help your fellow curators find information about 5 skulls so the guests will know what skull belongs to each animal species. The Spark Dectective Agency is on the case!