Connecting the story "Diary of a Worm" to a daily activity diary part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
In this activity, you will read the book "Diary of a Worm" and then your students will create their own diary.

Investigating Minnesota Tree Leaves part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
During the leaf activities the students will compare, contrast, classify, categorize, identify attributes, learn art techniques and learn about the importance of trees.

Introducing Nature Journal part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a step by step lesson to introduce a nature journal to students. We will establish the routine we will use.

Why are trees important? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students gather leaves and make observation about the leaves and based on their data determine which leaves are the most common where they live.

Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students collect leaf samples to be observed and compared monthly.

YOU are a scientist part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students will discover that everyone can be a scientist.

Introduction to Nature Journaling part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students will learn the importance of detail when nature journaling.

Using Inquiry to Group Minnesota Critters part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a teacher-guided inquiry activity of the sorting or grouping of Minnesota critters according to student driven criteria or purpose of their groupings. Teacher/student questions and discussion should be encouraged after this activity to emphasize that awareness of the criteria or purpose of certain groupings may be important before beginning an investigation.

Investigating Microbes in a Nature Center part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This field and classroom activity involves identification of similarities, differences, advantages, and disadvantages in survival, method of locomotion, food acquisition, and reproduction in three fresh-water microbes.

Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students collect leaf samples to be observed and compared monthly.

Rock Residents: What Lives Under a Rock? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
The students will participate in listening and discussing the story, Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs, and Other Ughs, by Anthony D. Fredericks and illustrated by Jennifer DiRubbio. On the following day, we will explore our nearby forest searching for some of the animals mentioned in the story. For the third day of this lesson, the students will share what they have written and drawn in their nature journals from the previous day's walk.

Goldenrod Gall Investigation part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
In this life science field investigation students will study golden rod gall populations within a patch of goldenrods.

String Scientific Notation/Metric System Demonstration part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Short demonstration on scientific notation by asking students to place numbers on a number line using string and notecards.

Seeds to Plants: How to Grow a Plant part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab investigation where students gather data on a seed or seeds that have been planted per their own design.

Our Big Backyard part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students venture out into their own backyard to observe and record data on living things and see how these things change throughout the seasons.

Investigating Insects in Nature part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students collect insects to analyze, observe, and classify

Observe, Describe, Compare and Contrast Cells part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an investigation where students observe cells from various organisms and then compare and contrast the cells they observe.

Who Lives Here? : Investigating and Sorting Schoolyard Insects part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students collect bugs using homemade pit traps, sort them into groups, and then graph their results.

Garden,Garden,What Do You Do? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is a field activity where students explore different types of gardens comparing how they are the same and different.

A Tree For All Seasons part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
The students will observe a maple tree throughout the year and recognize changes in weather and phenology using their 5 senses.