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Caution! Wildlife Crossing
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In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.

Nature Painting
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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.

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

Bonseki Salt Art
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In this activity learners will be creating art using a traditional Japanese art style.

Common Scents
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Learners use a mortar and pestle to extract clove oil from cloves using denatured alcohol. They put this oil on paper, which they can take home.

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

Squash Dissection
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In this activity, learners will dissect a pumpkin or winter squash to learn the parts of the plant. This activity gets your learner hands on with every part of the plant and will be messy.

A Crayon Rock Cycle- Metamorphic
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This is part 2 of the three-part "Crayon Rock Cycle" activity and must be done after part 1: Sedimentary Rocks. In this activity, learners explore how metamorphic rocks form.

Plastics the Second Time Around
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In this activity, learners test and compare the physical properties of thermoplastic polymers. Learners compare different plastics based on their color, degree of transparency, texture, and density.

Story Stones
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In this activity, learners will exercise their imaginations and artistic skills. Appropriate for all ages, learners will create unique pieces to jumpstart storytelling sessions.

Resource Hunt
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In this activity, learners explore nonrenewable resources and learn why these resources are finite.

What am I?
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In this activity, learners examine nanoscale structures of common things.

Flower Power
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In this activity, learners will experiment with changing flower colors. Learners will investigate the effects of acids and bases on flower colors.

Fossil Rocks
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In this activity, learners will discover how fossils are dug out of the earth by carefully exposing treasures hidden in an artificial rock that is easily made at home.

Exploring Fabrication: Self-Assembly
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In this activity, learners participate in several full-body interactive games to model the process of self-assembly in nature and nanotechnology.

Water Bugs
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Some bugs can walk on the surface of a lake, stream, river, pond or ocean.

Creating a Local Field Guide
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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.

Soak It Up: Understanding Amphibian Permeability
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In this activity, learners will discover how the thin layers of amphibians' skin allow water and other chemicals to pass through it.

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

Homemade Rain Gauge
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In this activity, learners will build rainwater collectors to practice meteorology in their own backyard. Collect and analyze data to determine how much rainfall you get in a set period of time.