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

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This is an activity about discovering the colors and beauty of nature. Learners will spend time outdoors, matching paint chip samples, colored paper, or colors of clothing to those found in nature.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor science/art activity, learners investigate spider webs by using string to create their own spider webs.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activities, learners head outside and investigate trees through bark rubbings. Learners will need paper, a pencil, and some unwrapped crayons to create them.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF under GPS: Biodiversity Activity), learners will pair up and take a notebook outdoors to a selected location to observe and record a list of living things that t

free Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity learners will create paint out of natural materials. Explore your natural world (or your fridge) and find berries, leaves, or flowers to find a great base for your paint.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this outdoor/indoor activity, learners collect ants and dirt to create an ant farm in a cup that they can observe over time.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners will explore nature by creating food for birds. Learners will develop fine motor skills and engage in nature observation through this activity.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this creative outdoor activity, learners invent populations of make-believe organisms and then investigate real populations living in the activity site.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor game, learners role play populations linked in a food chain.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor simulation game, learners search for pretend animals called "sticklers" to determine and map where they live (habitat) and how spread out they are in that area (distribution).

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity and game, learners collect and sort leaf samples to determine how many types of plants grow in the activity site.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor mapping activity, learners explore where plants grow and map plant-distribution patterns.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners explore the concept of population density.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners explore how a surprising number of animals use human-made litter, such as cans and crumpled paper, to find food and shelter in their environment.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity and bingo-like game, learners explore why and how seeds spread far from the plants that produce them.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for lichen, a combination of a fungus and an alga living together. Lichen grow where most other plants cannot, on rocks, the trunks of trees, logs and sand.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor art/environmental activity, learners create designs that will attract attention to animals and plants in particular habitats, and then test whether their designs attracted the "right"

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners find the swollen bumps known as "galls" on various plants and get a closeup look at the parasitic animals living inside.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes