Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide offers educators a wide variety of engaging, hands-on activities, organized into grade bands, K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 about trees and forests, wildlife, water, climate change, stewardship, and more.
Together for Birds invites students to investigate ways that birds and other living things depend on their habitat to live. It is designed for educators of students in grades K-2, with variations for grades 3-5.
The Pocket Guide connects children to nature through sensory experiences. It includes four hands-on experiences to do with children in groups up to eight, plus preparation instructions, material and time requirements, and directions.
Students draw a picture of tree from memory. As they explore trees close up through the other unit activities, they will draw new pictures and compare them with the original pictures they drew.
Students learn about the diversity of habitats in their state and write letters from the perspective of organisms living in those habitats.
Students look for signs of animals living in and around trees in the schoolyard, observing how a tree can serve as a habitat or as one part of habitat.
Students inventory the plants and animals that live in, on, and around trees and discover how plants and animals depend on trees in many ways.
Students explore the parts of a tree through mystery boxes, a blindfolded walk, and by sorting different leaves. This activity sharpens observation skills and descriptive vocabulary of trees and tree parts.
Students observe leaf buds over time to see what happens as the tiny, bright green leaves burst forth.
This simulation helps students model and understand the conditions that trees need to live and grow.