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In this activity, learners will learn a bit about botany as the explore botanical names and common names of plants.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will be working with predictions with a time frame of one week, or longer. Start by planting seedlings.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
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Discover how the salt in soil affects plant growth with a few seeds, some cotton, and salt. In this hands-on activity, you will plant seeds in 2 different kinds of soil, containing more or less salt.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners create a garden in a disposable glove. They learn about the conditions necessary to make the seeds sprout and actively participate in caring for their plants.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity, learners conduct a series of hands-on experiments that demonstrate how the working of plants' veins, known as capillary action, enables water to travel throughout the length of a pla

$5 - $10 per student Ages 11 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this hands-on botany activity, learners sprout vegetables in film canisters.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 1 to 4 weeks
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This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity, learners build penetrometers to test leaf toughness. Biologists measure leaf toughness to study the feeding preferences of insects and bugs.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners release a portion of a lawn from human control—no mowing, no watering, no weeding, no pest control—and then investigate the changes that result over several weeks.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 1 to 12 months