Activities for Home
Are you looking for some STEM activities to do with your children?
These lessons are perfect for home school, classrooms, camp programs, fun times or even home work projects. All activities are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.
Many of these activities only require a printer and scissors. While others call for basic household or craft supplies. Often items can be substituted or dropped as needed. These activities were designed to be done with groups of 8 students, so if you do them with 1-2 children you will only need 1 of each item.
Asynchronous Lessons –
At Home Activities for K-5
Activities for Nature Walks
Looking for activities to help your kids discover the wonder of nature? Need some tips for how to be a great field instructor (spoiler alert – it’s easy. You can do it too!)? Or maybe just looking for a little background about some of the things you are finding? Check out these helpful guides.
Sprout Up Explores
Check out our newest program, Sprout Up Explores! Sprout Up engages college and university student volunteers from around the country to teach nature, science, and sustainability education. Excitingly, Sprout Up has developed a video series covering a host of fun topics, all with energetic and enthusiastic college students.
Kindergartnern:
Investigation
Act as a scientist and play field research: collect data about what is alive in an outdoor area. Then “write a report” by drawing pictures of what you found.
Use your sense of touch to explore unseen items by describing them.
Is these alive, once alive, or not alive? How you know? Learn the 6 things all living things do.
1st Grade:
Structure and Function
Are you a flat-footed walker, toe walker, or toenail walker? See the function of each of these structural “designs”.
Can you draw a bee from memory? Test your knowledge and let's learn what the body parts of a bee do.
Explore plant parts (leaves, stems, fruit, seeds, etc) .What kind of plants part do we commonly eat?.
2nd Grade:
Water on the Move
Experiments to learn about the properties of water through scientific investigation.
3rd Grade:
Adaptations
Explore two aspects of the baylands; how plants survive the wave action and is how they clean runoff to the bay.
We all love a good scavenger hunt!
Try to find these plants & animals next time you are at the Baylands.
4th Grade:
Power Generation
Test how wind turbines produce electricity by making a pinwheel. Discuss the advantages of wind as a renewable source of energy.
This home-centered scavenger hunt reviews the types of power used in our homes .
Virtual Earthquake Geology Field Trip
(now with Spanish subtitles)
5th Grade:
Human Impacts
Develop a sense of responsibility for litter. Grasp how long common items take to decay.
Play as city council member reporting on 3 waste disposal companies. Evaluate the proposals to find the best option.
All steps in manufacturing create waste. Recycling saves energy, water, waste, landfill space and habitat damage.
Find ways to responsibly reuse, reduce, recycle, and compost things that you no longer use.
Free High School Bird Migration Curriculum for Teachers
This education module on bird migration and conservation promotes place-based learning by engaging students in scientific inquiry related to their local environment.
