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While playing a game, learners discover how the Endangered Species Act works in the United States. Learners move along a game board by answering questions correctly.

In this activity (located in the middle of the page), learners start a garden by planting their socks!

In this activity, learners investigate how some butterfly wings get their color.

This is an activity about turbidity, or the amount of sediment suspended in water.

Glare from the sun and ripples from the wind can make it hard to see what's below the surface of a body of water.

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

In this activity (page 4 of the pdf), learners build a model of a tide pool, using chicken wire, paper mache, and other craft materials.

In this activity, learners explore how the application of nano-sized particles or coatings can change a bigger material’s properties.

In this activity, learners create colorful bead bracelets to wear outside while searching for matching colors in plants. Learners will be surprised by the variety of colors in nature.

In this outdoor activity, learners release a portion of a lawn from human control—no mowing, no watering, no weeding, no pest control—and then investigate the changes that result over several weeks.

In this family or group activity, learners conduct a chromatography experiment to reveal the colors that leaves "hide" under their green pigments.

In this two-part activity, learners compare and contrast a variety of life cycles to better understand different organisms and how they develop.

In this activity, learners explore the web of connections among living and non-living things.

In this activity, learners survey living organisms near where they live or go to school, and create a local field guide.

In this game, learners explore the different sizes of things in the world. In this Twister-like game, learners must place a hand or foot on a circle of the right scale - macro, micro, or nano.

In this activity (located at the bottom of the page), learners investigate soil and explore the creatures that live in it.

In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

The Butterflies in Space Teacher's Guide uses "life in space" to encourage learners to conduct their own open-ended scientific investigations.

In this family or group activity, learners create a nature journal by visiting a local nature center or backyard, observing creatures in their natural habitats, and sketching what they see.

In this activity, learners can play two card games related to endangered species, specifically North American amphibians.