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Animal Attraction
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Investigate a flower's power of marketing by making an imitation flower that successfully signals a bee (or other pollinator of your choice) to visit.
Underwater ROV
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In this online Flash game, learners will explore a coral reef using an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
Metamorphosis Matching
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This is an activity where learners will compare the different metamorphosis stages of amphibians.
Exploring Materials: Thin Films
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In this activity, learners create a colorful bookmark using a super thin layer of nail polish on water. Learners discover that a thin film creates iridescent, rainbow colors.
Crunch Time
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In this quick and easy activity and/or demonstration, learners use two empty 2-liter bottles and hot tap water to illustrate the effect of heat on pressure.
Build A Dinosaur Nest
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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.
Build a Soundscape
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This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.
Oscillating Woodpecker
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In this activity, learners will experiment with the physics of forces - kinetic energy and friction while making a moving toy woodpecker.
Make a Snake String & Snake Survey
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In this activity, learners will construct a measuring device (snake "string") to improve their observation skills.
Hoop Glider
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In this activity, learners will experiment with the physics of flight by making a gliding contraption with strange looking wings. The activity explores flight with connections to the natural world.
Thrush Songs: An Interactive Game
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In this interactive game, learners listen to the songs of four different thrushes and then try to match each bird with its song.
Sound Mixer: A Multi-track Mixer of Animal Sounds
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This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.
How Animals Stay Warm
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In this quick activity, learners explore how blubber protects animals from the cold by making a "blubber mitt." Using cooking shortening, two zip-top sandwich bags, and duct tape, learners simulate bl
Monster Evolution
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In this online activity, learners create monsters and see how they survived when released into the wild.
Shark Cart
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In this activity, learners touch and observe skulls of sharks and rays to learn about their diversity (over 400 species of sharks alone!).
Make Your Own Deep-Sea Vent
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In this activity, learners make a model of the hot water of a deep sea vent in the cold water of the ocean to learn about one of the ocean's most amazing and bizarre underwater habitats.
The Mosquito/El Mosquito: Interactive Sound Game
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In this online activity, learners test their ability to hear different frequencies and compare their frequency range with the frequency range of other animals and insects.
Make Your Own Sea Otter
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In this activity about sea otters, learners make their own "otter whiskers" and use them to find objects underwater.
Audio Memory
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In this interactive game, learners will test their memory of animal and insect sounds. Flip over cards, listen to the sound, and try to find the ones that match.
What am I?
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In this activity, learners examine nanoscale structures of common things.