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In this math activity, learners will create a scale diagram of their backyard or other outdoor area on graph paper.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners discover the wonders of the habitat surrounding them.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 11 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 activity, learners will take a walk with their family and incorporate a scavenger hunt. They will explore topics like ABC’s, numbers, colors, and shapes as they search for related items.

free Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will go outside and create a constellation.

free Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners will gather natural materials outside that they think a dinosaur would want to lay its eggs in.

free Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 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, young learners go on a walk with caregivers and use their senses to observe nature with the help of scavenger hunt sheet.

free Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 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 explore how and why rainbows form by creating rainbows in a variety of ways using simple materials. Learners create rainbows indoors and outdoors.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a simple "rocket" with ordinary household materials to demonstrate the basic principles behind rocketry and the principle of reaction.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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This fun astronomy activity allows learners to experience finding stars in the night sky that will eventually go supernova. This activity is perfect for a star party outdoors.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make plaster casts of an animal track to learn more about animals and animal behavior.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this indoor or outdoor demonstration, use a large and small ball to illustrate conservation of energy and momentum.

free Ages 4 - adult Under 5 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners review the parts of the synapse and their functions by playing a game.

free Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate the concepts of relative size and distance by creating a basic model of the solar system.

1 cent - $1 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, freshwater activity, learners explore the behavior and food preferences of crawdads (or crabs) by "fishing" for them with various baits.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity uses a special paper that can create images with exposure to the Sun. Collect objects of different shapes and sizes and use them to make interesting patterns on your sun print.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes