Source: Postcards from Buster
Find and examine items from nature. Discuss favorite outdoor places and experiences.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Life Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Postcards from Buster
Define the term UFO, share views and stories about UFOs and examine the structures and inhabitants of caves. Practice using new words in English about mysteries and caverns and new functional language about expressing amazement.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Reading & Language Arts, Science & Tech
Topics: Vocabulary. Atmosphere & Space Science. Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Arthur
Develop an awareness of animal and insect habitats. Draw animals in their correct habitats while conversing about each animal's habitat and behavior.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Life Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Reading Rainbow
Collect impressions of raindrops and explore their sizes, create colorful ice cubes to explore color mixing, and conduct a science experiment to determine if all water is alike.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Learn about recycling and reusing objects. Create a car from used egg cartons and roads from masking tape.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech, The Arts
Topics: Earth Science. Crafts.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Jay Jay the Jet Plane
Explore the size and duties of the sun, including making things grow and warming the earth. Investigate the phases and characteristics of the moon and bake moon cookies. (5 activities total)
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Atmosphere & Space Science. Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: ZOOM
Explore the properties of soil by mixing up a recipe using chocolate pudding, crushed chocolate wafer cookies and gummy worms.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Agriculture.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Learn to recycle by making a dollhouse from a cardboard box and other everyday materials.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech, The Arts
Topics: Earth Science. Crafts.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: WXXI: 60 Second Science
Discover how paleontologists find and care for fossils while digging for pretend fossils.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Geology & Natural Disasters.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Boohbah
Explore different kinds of outdoor environments. Describe where the Storypeople are in each episode.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: It's a Big, Big World
Discuss the various ways people can help keep the environment healthy, and find examples of people in the community who have taken care of the environment. Participate in activities that help the environment.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Learn to recycle by creating a truck or a train out of used milk cartons.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech, The Arts
Topics: Earth Science. Crafts.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Postcards from Buster
Locate Hawaii on a map, find your state on a map and trace the route from your state to Hawaii. Write words and phrases describing the land and animals of Hawaii and recall words you've learned about volcanoes.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies
Topics: Earth Science. Navigation. Geology & Natural Disasters. Anthropology/Cultures. Geography.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Arthur
Explore rainy-day activities, create poems, pictures and stories about the rain and design a book to store rain predictions and observations.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Reading & Language Arts, Science & Tech, The Arts
Topics: Writing: Composition. Earth Science. Crafts.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: ZOOM
Make recycled paper. Turn newspaper into pulp and then back into new paper.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Ecology.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Clifford
Explore the concept of recycling by taking something old or used and updating it into something "new" and useful again by using a little bit of imagination and cooperative effort. Repair and redecorate a piece of furniture or other wooden item.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech, The Arts
Topics: Earth Science. Crafts.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Postcards from Buster
Locate the Rocky Mountains on a map, talk about rock climbing and working hard to achieve something and learn functional language that offers encouragement. Practice using new words in English about nature.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Reading & Language Arts, Science & Tech
Topics: Vocabulary. Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Jay Jay the Jet Plane
Sort rocks to discover differences such as color, shape, texture, and weight. Explore the shapes and colors of sand granules under a magnifying glass. Investigate fossils, and use common materials to create new fossils. (4 activities total)
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Classification. Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: ZOOM
Study the crystaline structure of snow by cutting out a six-sided snowflake design from paper.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Chemistry. Meteorology.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Clifford
Name the four seasons, and identify one symbol that represents each season. Create an original expression of wintertime art by making a snowman from liquid glue.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech, The Arts
Topics: Earth Science. Crafts.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: WXXI: 60 Second Science
Collect soil from the local area and examine it for various materials.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Geology & Natural Disasters.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Postcards from Buster
Understand different types of weather, conduct a weather survey, make a bar graph showing which type of weather is most popular and use words about weather. Explore spring activities near the Arctic Circle by role playing an igloo-making contest.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Math, Science & Tech
Topics: Data Analysis/Probability. Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Reading Rainbow
Explore what makes plants grow by planting grass seeds in small pots and giving them plenty of sunshine and water. Then create a nature windchime using shells and driftwood.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: WXXI: 60 Second Science
Discover how to make bricks from soil, water and dry grass. Consider why dry clay is so hard.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Physical Science. Engineering. Geology & Natural Disasters.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: WGVU: Habitat Earth: H2O
Discover the geological formations in an aquifer, how pollution gets into our groundwater and how humans use and conserve water. Show the effects of soap in hard water, create waste water, and predict whether materials will sink or float in wastewater.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Physical Science. Ecology. Geology & Natural Disasters.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Reading Rainbow
Recreate the conditions of a rainforest by constructing a closed terrarium from a two-liter bottle. Transfer a plant from a wooded area to the terrarium, place it in a sunny location and observe its ability to create its own precipitation.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Life Science. Botany. Ecology.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: ZOOM
Demonstrate the circular motion of a tornado with two plastic soda bottles, tape and some water.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Meteorology.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: ZOOM
Explore how nature filters water by creating a filter for dirty water using paper towels, gravel, sand and cotton balls.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Ecology.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: Jay Jay the Jet Plane
Observe and document daily weather on a bar graph. Discover that wind is moving air, collect and measure rain, investigate how warmth from the sun dries the rain, and use senses to determine differences in the air when it rains. (5 activities total)
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Math, Science & Tech
Topics: Measurement. Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: WXXI: 60 Second Science
Collect rocks from the local area and investigate how water affects the rocks.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Geology & Natural Disasters.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: It's a Big, Big World
Examine pictures of the outdoors and describe the weather that is depicted. Discuss how weather influences the types of clothes people wear outside.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project
Source: It's a Big, Big World
Explore different habitats and identify things that live in them. Create a mobile that shows a specific habitat and the plants and animals that live in that habitat.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: Science & Tech
Topics: Earth Science. Life Science.
Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project