Family Activity
Family Activity: Green Your Home’s Outdoor Space
Use these questions to make your yard, patio, and windows more appealing to your family and to wildlife.
Family Activity: Trees for Many Reasons
Examine the importance of conserving resources through fables.
Family Activity: Poet-Tree
Observe a variety of trees and write a poem.
Family Activity: Field, Forest, and Stream
Compare different environments to understand how nonliving elements can influence living elements within an ecosystem.
Family Activity: Trees in Trouble
Examine neighborhood trees for signs of poor health and then investigate actions to help trees in trouble.
Family Activity: Have Seeds, Will Travel
Observe, collect, and classify plant seeds.
Family Activity: Then and Now
Investigate changes in your community over time.
Family Activity: The Closer You Look
Take a closer look at trees and discover their individual parts.
Family Activity: The Forest of S.T. Shrew
Take a “shrew’s-eye-view” of life in the woods and uncover the diversity in the forest.
Family Activity: Pollution Search
Take a closer look at pollution: what it is, what its sources are, and what people can do to reduce it.