In this activity, students design an innovative human shelter that is inspired and informed by an animal structure. Each group is assigned an animal class, and they gather information about shelters used by the animals in that class. After researching the topic and brainstorming ideas, students build small prototypes (models) of the structures. Finally, they present their products, explaining what attribute of the animal structure influenced their design.

STUDENT ACTIVITY – K – GAThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.Students will recognize the difference between living and non-living things. They will explore outdoors and sort the things they observe into living and non-living.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning that transforms Science education for students in under-served communities.

In this lesson the students will determine that for an object to be a living thing it must grow and reproduce and it must have its basic needs met.

Students will determine that for an object to be a living thing it must grow and reproduce, and it must have its basic needs met.

Esta es una lección para el aprendizaje a distancia que los alumnos pueden completar en casa.Los estudiantes identificarán 5 sentidos y los usarán para hacer observaciones del mundo natural.Esta actividad fue creada por Out Teach (out-teach.org), una organización sin fines de lucro que proporciona aprendizaje experiencial al aire libre, con el objetivo de transformar la educación de las ciencias para los estudiantes en comunidades más desatendidas.

In this activity, students gain first-hand experience with the mechanical advantage of pulleys. Students are given the challenge of helping save a whale by moving it from an aquarium back to its natural habitat into the ocean. They set up different pulley systems, compare the theoretical and actual mechanical advantage of each and discuss their recommendations as a class.

Students will explore the outdoor classroom for materials that are attracted to magnets.

In this lesson the students will explore the outdoor classroom for materials that are attracted to magnets.

In this activity, students use their own creativity (and their bodies) to make longitudinal and transverse waves. Through the use of common items, they will investigate the different between longitudinal and transverse waves.

Students will create micro-landforms outside in order to mimic landforms and generate maps.

Students explore Mars and Jupiter, the fourth and fifth planets from the Sun. They learn some of the unique characteristics of these planets. They also learn how engineers help us learn about these planets with the design and development of telescopes, deep space antennas, spacecraft and planetary rovers.

In this lesson the students will go on a scavenger hunt trying to find objects that have definite physical properties such as shape, mass temperature, texture and flexibility.

In this lesson the students will observe and record properties of rocks based on properties such as size, weight, shape, color or texture.

This lesson will require students to practice measuring real-world objects in different units and evaluate the most effective units to use for solving problems.