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Learners use a variety of beans to represent a variety of species, and scatter these beans over a large piece of paper representing the environment.

During this interactive "survival" game, students learn about the importance of camouflage and how it helps animals to blend into their surroundings, as either predator or prey.

Learners create a model of a wetland to observe how it absorbs and filters water from the environment.

In this investigation learners explore the differences between, and interdependence of, living and nonliving elements in a water ecosystem.

In this activity, learners will create a diagram of the ocean zones and determine what organisms live in each zone.

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

In this outdoor simulation game, learners search for pretend animals called "sticklers" to determine and map where they live (habitat) and how spread out they are in that area (distribution).

In this creative outdoor activity, learners invent populations of make-believe organisms and then investigate real populations living in the activity site.

In this group activity, learners will explore the characteristics, functions and uniqueness of the mangrove tree.

In this data analysis and environmental science activity, learners examine the effects of pollution on amphipods using data from the Chesapeake Ecotox Research Program.