Search Results

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.

Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

In this activity, learners capture and observe planaria, which are worms that eat tiny pond critters.

In this outdoor activity linking human health to the environment, learners use their pulse rates as a measure of the effort expended in walking on different slopes.

In this activity, learners will build a design and build a place for pollinators to drink from.

In this activity, learners will take a step back and learn the history of the land they live on, and the people who used to live on it.

In this activity, learners collect worms and then observe how they move.

In this activity, learners use Styrofoam to collect organisms from a pond, estuary or marine environment and then examine what they have caught with a microscope.

In this outdoor activity, learners discover how the environment around a building affects the growth of plants.

Have you ever heard of a camera without a lens? In this activity, learners create a pinhole camera out of simple materials. They'll see the world in a whole new way: upside down and backwards!

In this engineering design challenge, learners make a bird and then control its flight with attached strings.

In this laboratory exercise, learners will discover how many different plant hosts they can find that are infected by the same genus of a powdery mildew fungus, or how many different genera of powdery

In this activity, learners calculate the number of milliliters of water a nearby tree transpires per day.

An ordinary camera has a lens that makes an image on film. In a pinhole camera, a small hole replaces the lens.

This fun hands-on astronomy activity uses a variety of simple props to help learners understand why they see what they see in a telescope.

In this activity, learners build an instrument for catching and observing flies. Learners act as entomologists, attract flies into a jar using a slice of apple, and then observe the flies' behavior.

In this activity, learners survey living organisms near where they live or go to school, and create a local field guide.

In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

In this activity, learners observe fly behavior and then build a flytrap.

In this activity, learners will investigate and compare the root systems of plants. Explore how weed and edible plant roots differ, and take a closer look inside with the careful use of a knife!