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Family Activity: Conserve Water At Home

It’s easy to waste water and even easier to take clean water for granted. Identify ways you can conserve water in your home.

Compare different environments to understand how nonliving elements can influence living elements within an ecosystem.

Examine neighborhood trees for signs of poor health and then investigate actions to help trees in trouble.

Observe, collect, and classify plant seeds.

Investigate changes in your community over time.

Take a “shrew’s-eye-view” of life in the woods and uncover the diversity in the forest.

Take a closer look at pollution: what it is, what its sources are, and what people can do to reduce it.

Deepen awareness of individual trees over time and develop a greater understanding of the environment.