Investigating Precipitation: Snow part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Holly Hansen
This activity combines field and classroom investigations about snowflakes to develop a testable question.

Who Wants To Live Here? Water Sampling At Our Local Pond and Stream part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Susan Van Kekerix
This activity is a field activity where students will perform various water quality tests to determine the types of organisms that live in a local pond and stream, and the characteristics that those aquatic environments seem to have that the organisms favor.

Measuring and recording the weather around us using a science notebook in second grade. part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Jen Froisland Chanhassen Elementary, Chanhassen, MN.
This activity is a field investigation where students measure, record and describe weather conditions using common tools (rain gauge, thermometer, and barometer). They will compare their observations to Weather.com (online) and the local newspapers to compare their findings, and record these observations.

Air Has Matter part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Caroline Sorensen
This is a series of activities demonstrating that air has mass, takes up space, and can exert a force on objects enough to lift them.

Ecology/Geography Classification part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Brianne Meick

Schoolyard BioBlitz: Monthly Observations of Plants, Insects, Weather, the Sun and Moon part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Alissa Naymark
In this field lab students will go outside and observe a particular area of the schoolyard. Students will design investigations to complete outside and will use outdoor observations to provide evidence for our indoor activities.

Investigating Ecosystems: Determining Feeding Relationships among Organisms part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Anna Potvin, Pine City Secondary, Pine City, MN
This activity is a field investigation in which students identify organisms and their energy sources. Students collect data and create a food web that explains how the organisms in their ecosystem are related.

Snails: Population Calculation in an Aquatic Environment part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Jason Marsh, Moose Lake High School, Moose Lake, MN adaptation of Snails activity from Learning Under the Sun
In this field investigation, students will identify and determine the population size of snails in an aquatic environment.

The Microenvironment Project: Featuring Phenology part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Sandy Bussian
A year long field study of a deciduous tree and its interdependence through phenology.

Collection of Place Introduction to Biology part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Laura Hanson, Central Middle and High School, Norwood Young America, MN. Based on a classroom activity done by Mike Link for a MNStep biology class.
This field study introduction to biology helps students answer the questions "What is biology" while looking at the biology that can be found in everyday surroundings.