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In this activity, young learners go on a walk with caregivers and use their senses to observe nature with the help of scavenger hunt sheet.

Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time. In this outdoor activity, learners will discover how to tell time using only a compass, a pencil, a handy printout, and a sunny day.

In this indoor and/or outdoor activity, learners make an anemometer (an instrument to measure wind speed) out of a protractor, a ping pong ball and a length of thread or fishing line.

In this engineering/design activity, learners make a kite, fly it, and then work to improve the design. Learners explore how their kite design variations affect flight.

Lakes, streams and other freshwater bodies are a habitat for lots of living things, big and small.

In this outdoor activity, learners explore UV rays from the Sun and ways to protect against these potentially harmful rays.

How do scientists measure how clear or murky water in a lake is? How does water clarity (clearness) affect what lives in the lake?

In this activity, learners use cheap, thin plastic garbage bags to quickly build a solar hot air balloon. In doing so, learners will explore why hot air rises.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity demonstrates the shadow of the Earth as it rises as a dark blue shadow above the eastern horizon.

In this kinesthetic activity, learners will play a game with a ball to demonstrate the Coriolis force, which partly explains why hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise.

In this kinesthetic activity that demonstrates pressure, learners act as air molecules in a "container" as defined by a rope.

In this activity, learners explore properties of water and watch evaporation happen by "painting" with water in the sun.

In this meteorology activity, learners build weather vanes using straws, paperclips, and cardstock.

In this activity, learners observe tide pool animals in a touch tank to consider how they survive.

In this water activity, learners discover ways to move water across the water table.

In this activity, learners will measure the length of a shadow and use the distance from the equator to calculate the circumference of the earth.

Glare from the sun and ripples from the wind can make it hard to see what's below the surface of a body of water.

In this activity, learners simulate the energy transfer between the earth and space by using the light from a desk lamp desk lamp with an incandescent bulb and a stack of glass plates.

In this math activity related to light, learners assemble a photometer and use it to estimate the power output of the Sun.

In this activity, learners model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons.