MATERIALS: Sturdy shoes, weather appropriate clothing, permission. TIME FRAME: As long as you want! PROCEDURE: Find a nice, sturdy, healthy tree with lots of thick branches and begin climbing it! It doesn’t matter how far up you go ( as long as you’re being safe), just climb up there and…
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MATERIALS: Several small envelopes to put the different seeds you collect in, scissors, a pencil or pen TIME FRAME: As long (or as short) as you’d like! PROCEDURE: With permission, go on a walk during the fall, winter or summer and look for old, dead flowers The heads of most…
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MATERIALS: Old seeds (3-5 varieties), growth chart, soil, seed starting tray or deep cookie sheet, a window, masking tape and a marker or pen TIME FRAME: 15 – 30 minutes + germination time (3-10 days) PROCEDURE: Fill your seed starting tray or your cookie sheet up with soil. With your…
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MATERIALS: Growth chart (optional), blank paper (printer paper), scissors, a stapler, markers, crayons or colored pencils TIME FRAME: 15 – 60 minutes PROCEDURE: Take your blank paper, one page at a time, and fold it into eighths (fold it in half, then in half again, then in half again).…
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MATERIALS: Six 4-5 foot poles, six square feet in your yard or garden, a rubber mallet, twine or sting, beans and or sunflowers, a shovel, compost or garden soil, permission, help from at least one other person TIME FRAME: 60 minutes + growing time PROCEDURE: With permission to dig and…
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MATERIALS: Graph paper, a ruler, crayons, markers or colored pencils, plants to measure TIME FRAME: 30 – 60 minutes PROCEDURE: Using your graph paper, label the horizontal axis with time (days or weeks) Label your vertical axis with height (centimeters or inches) If you’d like, you can leave some extra…