Arts

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.

Observe, collect, and classify plant seeds.

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

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

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

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

Touch, smell, see, hear, and taste winter using this activity.

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

Discover microhabitats, communities, and diverse life by observing fallen logs.