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In this activity, learners explore how packaging engineers develop customized shipping and packaging containers to meet the needs of many different industries.

In this outdoor, night activity, learners track nocturnal animals' footprints, droppings and other signs of their presence.

This lesson introduces learners to the world of nematodes (roundworms).

This mirror-tracing activity related to proprioception is a visual and motor test that involves learning a new motor skill.

This is a comprehensive lesson plan on page 85 for a group cleanup trip to a local beach, lake or stream. Learners keep track of the types and amounts of trash picked up and analyze this information.

Learners make a "menu" of any plants in their lunch for Monday through Friday and draw the plants from their lunch.

This is an activity (located on page 3 of PDF under Where's Nano? Activity) about identifying nanoscale objects and phenomena in today's world.

In this activity on page 11 of the PDF, learners follow simple steps to recycle old newspaper into new paper.

In this activity, learners discover the three R's of environmental protection: reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Learners work in teams to design and build solar water heating devices that mimic those used in residences to capture energy in the form of solar radiation and convert it to thermal energy.

In this archaeology meets art activity, learners make a mosaic and consider the ways in which art communicates.

This activity offers learners and their families several ways to raise their awareness together about home water.

In this activity, learners determine the necessary conditions for pea seed germination.

In this activity (located on pages 9-14 of PDF), learners visit a cemetery to examine the distinguishing characteristics of rock weathering.

In this activity, learners explore how engineers design devices that can detect the presence of pollutants in the air.

In this activity, learners plant seeds and watch them sprout and grow inside a CD case.

In this activity, learners make a miniature greenhouse or "terrarium" to explore the greenhouse effect.

In this activity about sleep rhythms (on page 25 of the PDF), learners will investigate how changing the time they go to bed impacts their own sleep patterns.

In this activity (p.24 of PDF), learners make paper with fungi. Learners discover that paper is basically a flat mat of fibers.

In this activity about daily rhythms (on page 17 of the PDF), learners will explore circadian patterns in humans, animals and plants.