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Kids collect insects, keep them for a day or two, observe them, and release them.
Learn about and try to recognize an individual tree through smelling, touching, and listening.
Use a timed sorting activity and review to explore different connections to water.
Don't judge your water by its cover.
Exchange information about endangered and extinct species through mini case studies.
The following lesson engages young children in exploring the concept of family with emphasis on how families around the world share more commonalities than differences.
This lesson plan engages students to illustrate the vast diversity of adaptations that animals use for survival, delineating how and why form fits function.
Go out into the community to collect and sort recyclable materials.
Students will examine themselves relative to their characteristics, abilities, and feelings. By making connections to children in another part of the world, they will discover that people are more alike than different.
Sort your garbage on a timeline to better understand decomposition.
Act out the life cycle of a tree as a group.
Every year on February 22, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world participate in globally themed activities honoring girls to acknowledge they are a part of a worldwide movement.
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