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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 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 activity, learners play an active version of freeze tag based on predator/prey relationships.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor game, learners role play predator and prey to explore the importance of keen hearing and silent stalking skills in the animal world.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners discover that plants aren't just shoots (stem, branches, leaves, and flowers) growing above ground, but contain plenty of roots growing underground—more than half th

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity that can be combined with a hike, learners try to match a "mystery community" by shaking animals out of different trees and shrubs.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners discover how the environment around a building affects the growth of plants.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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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.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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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.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this health and fitness activity, learners focus on the importance of daily physical activity, specifically walking.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this version of tag, a large group of learners model how the body fights infection. Learners act as germs, as lymphocytes, and as the body's cells threatened by germs.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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This activity is intended to familiarize learners with native Houston birds, introduce learners to tools biologists use in the field, and to enhance their observation skills.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (located on page 4 of PDF), learners gain insight into the actual size of dinosaurs and practice making estimations and measurements.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this Bob the Builder(TM)-themed activity, learners go on a nature walk outside and describe what they observe using their senses.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 6 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners survey living organisms near where they live or go to school, and create a local field guide.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this engineering activity (page 3 of PDF), young learners investigate how a pole can be made stable by “planting” its base in the ground or adding supports to the base.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 8 30 to 45 minutes