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Family Activity: Field, Forest, and Stream

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.

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.

Learn about the different plant parts we eat.

Uncover the conditions trees need to survive, live, and grow and learn how trees compete for resources.

Explore nature and its many textures and shapes using the sense of touch.

Find out what plants need to function and grow using this activity.