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In this activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Rabbits), learners will visit a zoo, aquarium, or pet store to view a variety of fish.

In this two-part activity about the connection between the lupine plant and butterflies, learners first read "Miss Rumphius," a storybook about lupine by Barbara Cooney.

Use the Zoo Calendar (page 1 of PDF) to involve learners in interdisciplinary, whole language, and writing activities about ecological concepts.

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 family or group activity, learners create a nature journal by visiting a local nature center or backyard, observing creatures in their natural habitats, and sketching what they see.

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

In this activity, young learners (2 years and up) explore turtle basic adaptations and biology. Turtle external anatomy is explored by "building" a turtle with a nature collage.

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

In this outdoor activity, learners will gather natural materials outside that they think a dinosaur would want to lay its eggs in.

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

In this outdoor activity, learners discover the wonders of the habitat surrounding them.

In this activity, learners will create their very own constellation.

In this activity, learners investigate how wolves communicate with each other through different body postures.

When was the last time you took a really close look at a leaf? In this activity, learners will use leaves and simple materials to make colorful leaf rubbings.

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 great hands-on activity, learners use patterns to make a teepee from newspaper that they sit inside.

This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

In this activity, learners build a bird feeder or feeders to attract birds for observation.

In this activity on page 5 of the PDF (Plants—The Green Machines), learners use chromatography to separate and identify pigments within various leaves.