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Flashlight Play
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In this activity, young learners will explore light and darkness through flashlight play.

From Polliwog to Frog
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In this activity, learners discover how frogs' bodies change while growing from a tadpole to a frog. Learners create a simple craft that gives a visual display of the metamorphosis process.

Mix and Match
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In this activity (7th activity on the page), learners use their sense of hearing to find a "sound match." Learners shake containers filled with items like dry seeds, sand, beans, etc.

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.
Bat Echolocation Experiment
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In this activity, learners discover how bats use echolocation to get information about objects in their environment. During the activity, one learner whispers into a tube.

Ask an Elder
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In this activity, learners listen to a story and tell a story of their own as they learn about the importance of elders in Native American cultures.

Design a Microexpression Zoetrope
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In this engineering design challenge, learners animate a facial expression and make a machine (zoetrope) that plays the animation back.

Basking Basics
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In this activity, learners will explore reptile biology by taking temperature readings in various places and comparing them.
Growing Plants: Track Their Growth
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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.

Cover Your Mouth
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In this health activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will discover why covering their mouth and nose while sneezing is so important.

As Straight as a Pole
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In this engineering activity (page 3 of PDF), young learners investigate how a pole can be made stable by “planting” its base in the ground or adding supports to the base.

Dinosaur Sock Puppet
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In this activity about dinosaurs, learners first participate in a group discussion about where and when dinosaurs lived, how big they were, and who studies them and how.

Kitchen Jamboree
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In this activity, learners observe, explore and investigate vibrating instruments in everyday places and create music in unique ways.

Rainbow Film
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In this activity, learners use clear nail polish to create a beautiful iridescent pattern on black paper. Learners discover that a thin film creates iridescent, rainbow colors.

Beachcombing
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In this outdoor activity, learners become beachcombers as they walk on a sandy beach in search of evidence of life.

Fingerprint Identification
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In this activity (on page 2) about fingerprint analysis, learners use graphite from a pencil and scotch tape to capture their fingerprints.

Dinosaur Homes
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In this activity about dinosaurs and survival, learners use scrap materials to create a miniature dinosaur habitat that includes a food source, water source, and shelter.

Bark Beetle Infestation Investigation: Estimation and Pheromones
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This activity investigates how bark beetles can threaten forests by having learners estimate the number of infected trees from a photo.

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.