Search Results

In this activity on page 14 of the PDF (Rethinking the 3 R’s: It’s Easy to be Green), learners turn plain pieces of recycled plastic into shrunken works of art.

This activity is a fun way to show two stages in a Monarch butterfly's life cycle. Learners will create an optical illusion that can be flipped from caterpillar to butterfly.

In this activity, learners create their own icons for a forecast-at-a-glance poster for their classroom/learning space.

Learners observe different light sources, outdoors and indoors, using prism glasses (diffraction glasses) and color filters.

In this activity, learners will explore the ways natural materials can produce sounds. Appropriate for any age, learners can make individual music or create a symphony with others.

In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.

In this activity, learners will create their own coral polyps - the basis for a coral reef.

In this activity, learners will go outside and create a constellation.

This is a simple and fun activity for learners to explore water and colors.

In this design challenge activity, learners explore the concept of biomimicry by using a natural organism's special features to design a new human object.

In this up-cycling activity, learners recycle plastic bags and repurpose them into useful wallets.

In this activity, learners will see how UV light affects colors over time by making their own sunprint on construction paper.

In this activity on page 60, learners examine and simulate wildlife entanglement by experiencing what it might be like to be a marine animal trapped in debris.

Learners use M&Ms® (or any other multi-color, equally-sized small candy or pieces) to create a pie graph that expresses the composition of air.

This activity is on page 8 of the pdf, part of the Sea Life Discovery Box. This is an activity exploring the characteristics of fish.

This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.

This activity is on page 10 (continued on the right side of page 11) of the pdf, part of the Forest Animals Discovery Box. In this game, learners act out the food web.

In this two part activity, learners become draft detectives by constructing their own draft catchers to detect drafts around windows or doors.

In this activity, learners will use Google Sky to observe features of the night sky and share their observations.