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In this outdoor activity and bingo-like game, learners explore why and how seeds spread far from the plants that produce them.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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This is an activity about the adaptations that allow the Aye-aye to survive in its habitat. Learners will explore how the Aye-aye collects food and how this is influenced by their specialized finger.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners work in small groups to match various marine animals with their different environments.

free Ages 4 - 8 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor art/environmental activity, learners create designs that will attract attention to animals and plants in particular habitats, and then test whether their designs attracted the "right"

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor, sunny day activity, learners experiment with paper leaf models to discover how some desert plants conserve water.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make homemade journals featuring seashell rubbings. First, learners transfer the texture of a seashell onto a piece of paper using a crayon.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of permeability to better understand why amphibians are extremely sensitive to pollution.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 4 to 24 hours
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In this activity, learners will discover what it takes to be a frog. By dressing up like one, learners can visualize how each part of the frog plays an important role in surviving its habitat.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity (on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Biodiversity Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into biodiversity.

free Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this classic activity, learners investigate natural selection by becoming birds foraging for food on an island.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this matching game, learners study the limits of life on Earth to see what other places in the solar system might sustain microbial life.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this simulation of natural selection, learners use binder clips in three different sizes to represent the diversity of beak sizes in a bird population.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this hands-on activity, learners will become familiar with the special adaptations of rainforest plants and discover the conditions needed for tropical trees to survive along with what can impinge

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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What does it mean to be alive? Is a cactus alive? Is a seed alive? Is the air we breathe alive? What are the necessary characteristics?

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this inquiry-based activity, learners investigate the basic forces of flight as they construct their own paper glider that represents a rainforest creature from Borneo (large, tropical island in So

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct models of plants that are adapted to living under specific environmental conditions.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this online activity, learners create monsters and see how they survived when released into the wild.

free Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners count and measure kidney beans to explore natural selection and variation. Learners measure the length of 50-100 beans.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, leaners will observe the process of natural selection on a population of birds called 'Springbeaks' over four seasons of breeding on an isolated environment called 'Clippy Island.' L

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners investigate the special shapes, holding structures and holding behaviors that real organisms use in streams, rivers, creeks or coast intertidal zones to a

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18