Melting ice cubes
Mirjam Glessmer, University of Bergen
Explore how melting of ice cubes floating in water is influenced by the salinity of the water. Important oceanographic concepts like density and density driven currents are visualized and can be discussed on the ...

Youth and Law
Carla Lippett, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Students, faculty, staff, and other community volunteers will collaborate in groups with the delivery of a Law-Related Education (LRE)program that goes beyond questions about who, what, when, and where. LRE helps ...

Lab Field Trip program for K-12 Students, Hosted by University Researchers
Katharine Huntington, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
University researchers host K-12 students for a hands-on laboratory field trip that is integrated with science class curriculum and includes mentorship and/or broadening diversity in science activities. Students ...

Layer Cake Geology
Molly Ward, Museum of the Rockies
This activity visually introduces students to the idea of geologic time and the correlation between time, rock layers and fossils. It uses the familiar, relevant example of cake but teaches important concepts such ...

Ontogeny
Molly Ward, Museum of the Rockies
This activity allows even the youngest of learners to understand what the concept of ontogeny is, relative to humans and also applied to learning about dinosaurs.

Watershed: Exploring Run-Off and Infiltration in the Classroom
Stephanie Kennelly Garlough Environmental Magnet School West Saint Paul, MN A series of lessons worked into MinnAQUA curriculum
This activity is a classroom based inquiry activity where students will observe how water changes when it is moved through a variety of different mediums. Eventually, the students will take this model to the larger ideas of watershed in the community.

Photographs of snow bank structures
Audrey Rule, SUNY College at Oswego
This set of photographs was taken in February 2004 in Oswego, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario, an area that receives about five meters of snow each winter because of lake-effect. Prior to photography, a large ...

Worm Farming and Composting
Sybil Haas
This activity is a lab investigation where students design an experiment to create rich soil using organic matter, dirt, newspaper and red worms.

Observational Skills: Observing and creating sketches of an outdoor environment
Daryl ("Tish") Monjeau Bancroft Elementary School Mpls., MN
In this series of activities, students observe and sketch the environment outside their school using their senses. Students create a classroom book using one of their sketches.

Adventures in ABC & 1, 2, 3
Julie Roettger Lily Lake Elementary Stillwater, Minnesota
This activity is an indoor/outdoor activity that incorporates both literacy and scientific observation to make an ABC book based on Antler, Bear, Canoe by Betsy Bowen. Family participation is encouraged.