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In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.

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

An ordinary camera has a lens that makes an image on film. In a pinhole camera, a small hole replaces the lens.

Use this Moon Map Guide to help learners identify features on the Moon, while looking through a telescope.

In this outdoor activity and/or field trip, learners investigate the behavior of hopping animals.

This is an activity to do when there is a solar eclipse!

In this activity, learners explore conservation of energy by experimenting with a solar cell light device.

This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners make 3-dimensional models of the Earth and Moon.

In this activity on page 13 of the PDF, use a special plastic card that has been painted with a chemical that changes color when it is in UV light.

Learners build a solar oven from a cardboard pizza box, aluminum foil and plastic. Learners can use their oven to cook S'mores or other food in the sun.

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

In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

Learners follow directions to construct a solar oven that really cooks! The solar oven uses aluminum foil to reflect sunlight into a cooking chamber, which is painted black.

This activity (page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Double Dutch) is a full inquiry investigation into whether hearing or seeing has a bigger effect on jump rope performance.