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Cloud Fun
NOAAAdd to list DetailsLearners complete a series of hands-on and investigative activities to explore cumulus clouds. Learners observe cumulus clouds outside, read a book about how cumulus clouds differ from other clouds...
Give or Take?
4-HAdd to list DetailsIn this outdoor activity, learners work in pairs using their senses—especially touch—to learn more about individual trees. After reading and discussing Shel Silverstein's storybook "The...
Our Beautiful World
Children's Museum of IndianapolisAdd to list DetailsIn this Bob the Builder(TM)-themed activity, learners go on a nature walk outside and describe what they observe using their senses. Learners discuss everyone's responsibility of taking care...
Bug Hats
Oregon Museum of Science and IndustryAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners use their imaginations and experiment with different materials to create bug hats. Use the suggested open-ended questions to encourage learners to talk about what they...
Tiny Pants Photo Challenge
The ExploratoriumAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners use a simple trick of perspective to dress friends in tiny cutout clothing. Learners make tiny pants out of card stock and tape them to the end of a stick. Then, learners...
Benham's Disk
University of WashingtonAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners make a Benham Top to explore visual illusions and optics. This activity guide includes three different instructions for making the spinner using various recycled...
Horton Senses Something Small
NISE NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn this story time program, young learners listen to the Dr. Seuss book "Horton Hears a Who." Learners use their eyes to look at small things using lenses and use their sense of smell to...
Designer Ears: Make “better” ears!
The ExploratoriumAdd to list DetailsFind out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out. Produced by the Exploratorium, this activity uses simple, off...
Our Sense of Sight: Color Vision
University of WashingtonAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners investigate color vision as well as plan and conduct their own experiments. In "CLASS EXPERIMENT," learners discover that afterimages occur because of...
Nature Walk
4-HAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners take an indoor nature walk and discover various objects that have been brought in from the outdoor environment. In preparation for the activity, an educator places...