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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.

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

In this collecting/comparing activity, learners work with samples of sand from different places like a lakefront, river, or ocean beach.

In this activity, learners will make their own prism and use a glass of water to separate sunlight into different colors.

In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.

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

In this activity, learners build a bird feeder or feeders to attract birds for observation.

In this wintertime outdoor activity, learners role play wolves tracking their prey by following scented trails.

In this activity, learners use tonic water to detect ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun and explore the concept of fluorescence.

In this activity, learners make their own Sun tracker to explore how ancient civilizations around the world studied the Sun.

In this activity, learners make their own pinhole viewer in order to measure the size of the sun.

In this outdoor, nighttime activity, learners gather around a brightly lit, white surface and study the behavior of nocturnal animals attracted to the light, particularly night fliers.

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

In this outdoor activity, learners discover that plants aren't just shoots (stem, branches, leaves, and flowers) growing above ground, but contain plenty of roots growing underground—more than half th

In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners explore the concept of population density.

In this outdoor/indoor activity, learners collect ants and dirt to create an ant farm in a cup that they can observe over time.

In this outdoor activity, learners build bird nests and place them in the activity area, then play the role of naturalists as they try to locate each other's nests.

In this outdoor science/art activity, learners investigate spider webs by using string to create their own spider webs.

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

In this outdoor activity, learners investigate ant behavior by testing ant feeding reactions to different types of food.