Free Activities

Help students explore methods used by “Disease Detectives” in virology labs to detect respiratory viruses.

A quick and easy activity illustrating the effect of concentration, temperature, and a catalyst on the rate of reaction.

A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate endothermic reactions.

Download this care guide for the facts on planaria reproduction and instructions for their collection, care, and feeding.

Download this care guide for the facts on culturing this complex yet easily studied organism.

Help students separate fact from friction when it comes to the motion of the Earth’s crust and the movement of its tectonic plates.

Use this free resource to demonstrate the science of surface waves, wind waves, linear theory, stokes drift, shoaling & breaking, wave measurement, and more.

Solar and lunar eclipses captivate student’s curiosity. Help them learn that there's even more to an eclipse than meets the eye!

Introduce students to this consequential transition element with our colorful lab activity that demonstrates the various oxidation states of manganese.

Use this free activity to whet your students’ appetite for exploring superabsorbent, hydrophilic polymers and their real-world applications.

Students discover the basics about the relative densities of solid objects and the intriguing ways “density matters” in real-world applications.

So many processes in everyday life involve heat transfer; your students will be inspired to discover all the situations where it occurs.

A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate exothermic crystallization and supersaturated solutions.

A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate how gases behave when exposed to temperature, pressure, and volume changes.

Teach students about the busy world of bees, butterflies, and other animals that do the vital work of moving pollen around with this free resource from McGraw Hill’s Access Science.

Students can organize and record their observations of the stages of developing butterflies, from larva to butterfly.

Spark students’ curiosity about the basics of electric charges. Inspire hands-on educational activities that develop critical thinking skills that students can do at home or in the classroom.

Inspire students to explore the science behind vaccines by using this powerful resource from McGraw Hill’s AccessScience to build your lesson plans on virology and immunology.