¡Únete a nosotros para celebrar a los portadores y artistas de la cultura nativa de California! Aprende sobre el arte y la ciencia de su conexión con la tierra y el agua y explora tu propia relación ...

SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2025) – The Exploratorium is proud to be a partner of San Francisco Climate Week, presented by Climatebase, and host a series of engaging events, including the keynote by Vice ...

Shawn Rowe carries out research related to the intersections of everyday and STEM ways of knowing and thinking. With a background in applied linguistics and developmental psychology, his work has ...

Explore how DNA gets sorted into sperm cells and egg cells. What’s special about sex cells? Figure out how they’re made (in a process called meiosis), and learn why it matters. You will see four ...

SAN FRANCISCO (September 11, 2024) – On Saturday, September 28, the Exploratorium will host its annual Latinx+ Engineering Day in partnership with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) ...

Unspoken Principles: "Ideas Are Between Us" When our Tinkering Studio team is engaged in R&D to develop new activities, some unspoken principles guide us. One of them, I’d like to call "Ideas are ...

Since last year, we've been doing some interesting R&Ds on light and shadow using the CPX, and I wanted to document and share some project examples here. CPX, which stands for Circuit Playground ...

In 2021, the LEGO Foundation started a community of practice called the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network (PLMN). A shared commitment to playful learning binds our 22 member institutions together: ...

In the workshop, participants created a wide range of projects, each enriched with its own unique narrative. The availability of materials such as cardboard fostered a welcoming environment and helped ...

Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer/tinkerer who draws, photographs, cuts, engineers, prints, codes, and creates kinetic and interactive work. She has taught at The School of Poetic Computation, ...

The three activities below show one example of an “activity sequence”—a set of phenomenon-based explorations organized in a way that helps students delve into a complex concept, progressing from one ...

Tinkering is more than a collection of activities. It is a constructivist approach to learning based on the premise that all learners are competent and capable of making meaning of the world. As such, ...