In this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College, listen as six Native American students share their concerns, hopes, and knowledge about climate change.
This activity, Wind Anemometer, is geared towards K-6 graders. You will invent an anemometer to record wind speed at your home.
This activity focuses on getting students to think about bacteria, water quality and water treatment processes. Students develop and test their hypotheses about the "cleanliness" of three water samples prepared by the teacher. Then they grow bacteria in Petri dishes from the water samples. They learn how private septic systems and community sewage and wastewater treatment plants work, the consequences to the surrounding environment and wildlife from human wastewater, and what measurements of the released "clean" water are monitored to minimize harm to receiving rivers and lakes.
Learn about the environmental conditions of Death Valley in this video from Nature.
Distance learning environmental education from a community non-profit, based on local, southeast Ohio ecosystems. Blog posts feature hands-on nature activities that can be done in any green space of any size. These STEM activities focus on observation skills, inquiry and exploration, and human's relationship with plants and animals. Topics include plants/wildlife, habitats, watersheds, survival skills, nature journaling and more.
Rural Action's naturalists are also available for video calls and correspondence with kids around science, inquiry, and nature.
Created in response to COVID-19 school closures.