JUNIOR NATURALIST ACTIVITIES

These activities are designed to help you explore nature at home, at school, at NCSL or anywhere else you love to visit in your community. Each action-focused category includes a variety of nature themes and skill levels, perfect for naturalists of any age.

OBSERVE with our scavenger hunts and games designed to challenge your 5 senses.

COMPARE different habitats and data sets with these activities and prompts.

MEASURE your world as we explore how different units can help us understand nature.

DESIGN your own experiment based on these nature-inspired questions.

COMMUNICATE your ideas with discussion questions and written prompts.

LEAD your community by learning more and taking action. (Coming soon).

Observe 

• Scavenger Hunt: Explore the Textures of Nature 

• Living and Non-living Scavenger Hunt 

• Labeling Living Things_Word Bank 

• Labeling Living Things_Tracing 

• Bird Sights and Sounds: Backyard Bird Bingo 

• Nature Bingo 

• Tree Rubbing 

• Spring Wordsearch 

Compare 

• Habitat Match 

• Sorting Challenge (living v non-living things) 

• Animal Tracks Matching Game 

Measure 

• Field Count (graphing activity) 

• Measuring with Units 

• Measuring with Rulers 

Design  

• Magnificent Macroinvertebrates: Build-A-Bug Activity 

Communicate 

• Color & Connect: Habitats 

Lead – Coming Soon!