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Nature Activities & Nature Experiments

Take a deep breath of fresh air with these nature activities. Kids will love exploring their natural world and the learning will come, well, naturally, when you prompt them to observe and interact with nature using these teacher created activities. Nature has always inspired the world's academic greats from scientists to poets. Show your young learner how to experience the same inspiration today.

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Nature Activities

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Spring Collage

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!

Preschool

Science

Activity

Learn Where Wind Comes From

Learn Where Wind Comes From

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

2nd grade

Science

Activity

Make Your Own Rainbow

Make Your Own Rainbow

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

2nd grade

Science

Activity

Guess My Rock!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

5th grade

Science

Activity

Plant a Fail-Safe Veggie Garden

Plant a Fail-Safe Veggie Garden

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Kindergarten

Science

Activity

Sunset Calendar

Sunset Calendar

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

5th grade

Science

Activity

Building Sand Castles

Building Sand Castles

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

1st grade

Science

Activity

Swimmy Science: Raising Tadpoles!

Swimmy Science: Raising Tadpoles!

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

1st grade

Science

Activity

Go on a Backyard Botany Hunt

Go on a Backyard Botany Hunt

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

5th grade

Science

Activity

Find a Flower

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

Science

Activity

Plant Habitats: Dandelions

Plant Habitats: Dandelions

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

5th grade

Science

Activity

Growing Flowers

Growing Flowers

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

1st grade

Science

Activity

Using a Compass

Using a Compass

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

3rd grade

Science

Activity

Clean Water Using the Sun!

Clean Water Using the Sun!

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

Science

Activity

Grow Your Own Herbs

Grow Your Own Herbs

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

Science

Activity

Backyard Astronomy

Backyard Astronomy

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching her some backyard astronomy at the same time.

Kindergarten

Science

Activity

Float My Clay Boat

Float My Clay Boat

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

4th grade

Science

Activity

Grow a Sock Garden

Grow a Sock Garden

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Kindergarten

Science

Activity

Puddle Science: Watch Evaporation in Action

Puddle Science: Watch Evaporation in Action

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

2nd grade

Science

Activity

Backyard Field Guide

Backyard Field Guide

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

2nd grade

Science

Activity

Make a Self Portrait from Nature

Make a Self Portrait from Nature

Add some fun to arts and crafts by having your child make a self portrait using nature as her palette.

2nd grade

Science

Activity

What Doesn't Belong? A Categorization Game

What Doesn't Belong? A Categorization Game

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

3rd grade

Science

Activity

Get Your Head in the Clouds

Get Your Head in the Clouds

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

1st grade

Science

Activity

Make a Butterfly Habitat

Make a Butterfly Habitat

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

1st grade

Science

Activity

Easter Egg Designs

Easter Egg Designs

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

3rd grade

Science

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