One of our light sources in action during a Light Play experience. I think it’s great to think so deeply about the things that we use in our tinkering activities however, the specificity of what we ...

Last month, Mike and I had an opportunity to facilitate one of our favorite activities, Shadow Remix, at a LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network* convening. *LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network: The ...

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 ...

Boost Your STEAM Skills and Tinkering Practice. You can enhance your STEAM learning with California Early Childhood Online’s free course, Steam Starters: Tinkering for Early Learners.You’ll explore ...

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) ...

In this blog post, I’d like to delve deeper into what happens in this shared idea space of “Ideas are between us”, using the development of Tinker with a View with OctoStudio activities as an example.

At the Exploratorium, we have an exhibit called "Sophisticated Shadows" that explores the pinhole effect, but this felt like an entirely new way to investigate pinholes.The use of multiple colorful ...

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, ...

Activity 1: Naked Egg. Use a giant cell—a de-shelled chicken egg—to explore the comings and goings of cellular substances. Naked Egg is a great beginning activity because it raises questions about the ...

At the Exploratorium booth at this year's Maker Faire, we invited visitors to work together to build five collaborative Rube Goldberg machines over the course of the weekend. On Saturday we set off ...

Tune in for a follow-up blog post about how we got here! I will be sharing about discoveries during this collaborative exploration of balance with WICO and Exploratorium exhibit developers, how we ...