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Spring Activities

Spring Wildflowers of Deciduous Forest

Springtime Forest Hidden Picture Activity

Spring Things - Coloring Page

Unscramble the Names of Spring Wildflowers

Wildflowers (Spring) Guide

Forest Wildflowers (Labeled) Coloring Forest Wildflowers Coloring

Meadow Wildflowers Coloring

Label the Parts of a Flower

Learn to Draw Wildflowers

Coloring Wildflowers

Make a Bird Journal

Identify Birds by Their Song

A Bird Investigation and Another Bird Study

Songbird Poster Building

Forest Bird Poster Building

Birds of Prey Poster Building

Ducks Poster Building

Backyard Animal Inquiry (K-2)

Backyard Animal Inquiry (3-5)

Forest Life Investigation - The Nurse Log

Ant Behavior Inquiry

Backyard Plants Inquiry

Learning About Plants Scavenger Hunt

100 "Spring" Things To Find (Color)

100 "Spring" Things To Find (Black and White)

Start a School Garden!

Gardening with Kids

Gardening Activities

Garden Planning Grid and Seedling ID and Thinning Guide

Gardening Tools

Garden Science - Mini-Poster

Garden Vegetables Word Search

Name the Parts of the Plant - Short Answer (w Color Diagram)

Parts of the Plant as Food Matching (and Color Diagram)

Gardening Search

Garden Friends

Early Vegetable Garden Maze Farm and Garden Tools - Match and Color

Garden Pest Unscramble (and Color Diagram)

Tomato Plant Pest - Maze

Garden Love - Coloring Page

Spring Garden Activity Page

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2025 Earth Day

Learning Activities

Acid Rain Demonstration

Smog Alert! Activity

Nurse Log Study

Celebrate Earth Day - 10 Activities

Do Tree Activities!

Do Environmental Issue Activities

Learn about Environmental Issues

Earth Day Poster Building

Changing Ecosystems - Matching

Keystone Species Descriptive Brochure - Performance Task

Protecting Coral Reefs - Poster Making

For Grades 6-8:

Design a Low Impact House and Yard

Environmental Disasters - Human Impacts on Earth Systems - Research and Report

Finding Solutions to Human-made Acid Rain

How Many Resources Do We Each Use? Critical Thinking

Human Population and the Consumption of Resources - Construct an Argument

Monitoring and Minimizing Acid Rain - Research and Report

Our Role in Climate Change - Research and Report

Reversing Climate Change - Research and Report

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Classification of Living Things

About Classification - An Overview

About Classification - How it Works

Class - Amphibians (All Age Levels)

Class - Anthozoa (Sea Anemones, Corals)

Class - Birds (AVES) - (All Age Levels)

Class - Bivalve (Clams, Oysters, Mussels, Scallops)

Class - Cephalopoda (Nautilus, Squid, Octopus)

Class - Fish (Jawed, Bony Fishes) (All Ages)

Class - Gastropoda (Snails, Slugs, Conchs, Periwinkles and Sea Slugs)

Class - Insects

Class - Mammals (All Ages Levels)

Class - Reptiles (All Age Levels)

Class - Scyphozoa (Jellyfish)

Class - Sharks and Rays - Cartilaginous Fishes (All Ages)

Classification of Humans (All Age Levels)

Ocean Invertebrate Color Poster

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