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Family Activity: Reuse and Recycle At Home

Use this chart to analyze how you currently dispose of items and ways you can reduce waste, reuse items, recycle, and compost.

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Family Activity: Save Energy At Home

Lower your energy bills and help the environment at the same time! There are many simple ways you can save energy (and money!) at home.

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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.

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Family Activity: Trees for Many Reasons

Examine the importance of conserving resources through fables.

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a young boy gazing up at a plant in wonder

Family Activity: Poet-Tree

Observe a variety of trees and write a poem.

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stream in a forest

Family Activity: Field, Forest, and Stream

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

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dead leafless trees

Family Activity: Trees in Trouble

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

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squirrel eating a pine cone

Family Activity: Have Seeds, Will Travel

Observe, collect, and classify plant seeds.

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girl and elderly lady hold a sheet of paper together outdoors

Family Activity: Then and Now

Investigate changes in your community over time.

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girl inspecting a branch

Family Activity: The Closer You Look

Take a closer look at trees and discover their individual parts.

K-2
Family Activity
close up of the common shrew on a tree branch

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
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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.

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boys with sunglasses behind a large tree

Family Activity: Adopt a Tree

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

Family Activity
hand grasping a vegetable

Family Activity: Pass the Plants, Please

Learn about the different plant parts we eat.

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looking up at the sky through the tree canopy

Family Activity: Every Tree for Itself

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