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Food Chains and Webs
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In this activity, learners investigate feeding relationships. Learners complete a food web and then make a mobile to represent a food chain.

Who Can Harvest a Walleye?
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This activity focuses on interactions within Earth systems and the effects of human activities. In this activity learners build a biomass pyramid.

The Egg Activity
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Learners observe the outside and inside of raw chicken eggs, record descriptions, and hypothesize what will happen when a facilitator drops an egg on the floor.

Inverted Bottles
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In this activity, learners investigate convection by using food coloring and water of different temperatures.

Green Travelers
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In this activity (on pages 23-29), partners use the Plant Traveler Cards, along with a world map and map worksheets, to follow plants such as cassava, chocolate and coffee that grew first in one part

The Thousand-Yard Model
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This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

The Variety and Roles of Microbes
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In this activity, learners use sets of cards to assign microorganisms to different groups.

The Adaptation Game
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To convey the concept of how animals adapt to survive, this game asks learners to imagine what adaptations a given animal would need to live in a certain environment—including environments where such

How Active Are You?
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In this activity, learners explore what is and is not active play and how it contributes to a healthy body and mind. Making active play a routine part of every day is a key concept of the experience.

Why Circulate?
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In this activity related to the human circulatory system (on page 10 of the PDF), learners observe the dispersion of a drop of food coloring in water, draw conclusions about the movement of dissolved

Soggy Science, Shaken Beans
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Learners explore soybeans, soak them in water to remove their coat, and then split them open to look inside. They also make a musical shaker out of paper cups, a cardboard tube, and soybeans.

Leaf Living
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In this outdoor fall activity, learners find out what living in or under a layer of leaves is like.