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Trail Construction
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In this highly physical outdoor activity, learners construct and compare experimental trail sections to select the best trail-construction technique for their site.

Marine Skulls Cart
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In this activity, learners look at and touch marine animal skulls to compare them and think about what they eat.

Seas in Motion
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In this outdoor, beach activity, learners use tennis balls, water balloons and other simple devices to investigate the movement of waves and currents off a sandy beach.

Plants Around a Building
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In this outdoor activity, learners discover how the environment around a building affects the growth of plants.

Exploration Tank
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This is a guide for facilitating interaction at a touch tank with marine animals. The instructions are for setting up a display in an informal science center, but could work anywhere.

Beach Zonation
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In this outdoor, ocean-side activity, learners investigate the distribution of organisms in the upper region of the intertidal zone.

Night Eyes
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In this outdoor, night-time activity, learners discover how to spot eye-shine (reflection of light from an animal's eyes) by using a flashlight to play a simulation game.

Water Breathers
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In this activity and/or field trip, learners investigate the water currents that aquatic animals create when they breathe, feed, and propel themselves through water.

Wintergreen
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In this outdoor, winter activity, learners find living green plants under the snow and determine the light and temperature conditions around the plants.

The Vaccine & You
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In this card-based personal choice activity, learners review and sort COVID-19 and vaccine science information.

A Better Fly Trap
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In this activity, learners observe fly behavior and then build a flytrap.

Fish Wheels
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In this activity, learners cut out and assemble wheels to explore how variations in fish body structures (mouth shape/position/teeth, body shape, tail shape, and coloration patterns) allow fish to sur

Antibody Builder
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Learners use Duplo bricks to build antibodies with shapes that match model viruses.

Sand Activity
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In this activity, learners observe mixtures of sand samples glued to note cards, and consider how sand can differ in size, shape, and color, and where it comes from.

Jump Start
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In this movement and measurement activity, learners jump as far as they can three times, and compare their longest jump to the longest jump of their friends, classmates and/or family members.

Clam Hooping
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In this two-part outdoor activity, learners conduct a population census of squirting clams on a beach or mudflat, and investigate the clams' natural history.

Mapping a Study Site
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In this outdoor activity, learners use a mapping technique to become oriented to the major features of an outdoor site.

Leapin' Lizards
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In this outdoor activity, learners first explore lizard feeding behavior by creating a "lizard rig" to dangle different objects in front of live lizards and see which objects the lizards try to bite.

Dinosaur Bone Experiments
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This activity features two connected hands-on activities about dinosaur bones.

Beach Buckets
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In this activity, learners explore a bucket of sand and beach objects.