Activities & Lesson Plans

 

Find activities and lesson plans for all ages!


Hands-on activities are adaptable for different ages and designed to be done with easily-available materials. Activities can be adapted to do at home, in a classroom, at an afterschool program, or in an out-of-school setting.

 

 

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Butterfly-shaped suncatcher made with tissue paper pieces, with sunlight shining through.

Animals

 

Hand holding a paintbrush, painting a landscape showing seals.

Art

 

A beaver skull sitting on a skull-patterned tablecloth, next to a card with a picture of a beaver skull and the words "Whose bones?"

Bones
A blue and green paper mache Earth.

Earth & Weather

 

Hand using a small paintbrush to excavate a toy from hardened oobleck.

Fossils & Dinosaurs
Mini museum exhibit example, with cutouts of various museum objects glued to a piece of cardstock folded into thirds.

Museums
Drawing of a berry plant in a sketchbook, colored red and green with colored pencils.

Plants & Berries

 

Black construction paper with yellow and orange chalk lines radiating out from a circle in the center.

Space Science
Model birch basket, with birch-patterned paper visible on the outside. The basket is half-filled with pom-poms in different colors.

Traditional Technologies

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Plants & Berries:
All others: UAMN photos.

 

 

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