Students will investigate the organization of all living things through and learn how to classify through process of classifying their own shoes. Students will complete the classification of a Jaguar and write their own pneumonic device to remember the order of biological classification. (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)

This activity is an interactive game that helps students learn that vertebrates are classified into five groups and that each group has common characteristics that distinguish the animal group from other respective groups.

Students observe the decomposition of a pumpkin under controlled circumstances. These observations are used to take notes and develop questions.

This activity is a field investigation where students collect insects to analyze, observe, and classify

Short Description: This activity is a classroom investigation of human joints. Students will identify joints and use their science notebooks to record their findings using drawings and words.

This is an investigative lab to provide students with an opportunity to practice observation skills and develop cooperative group proceedures.

This first grade field and classroom activity leads students to discover their natural world through observation and measurement.

In this biology investigation, students will make observations of the growth of bean seeds to determine what plants need to live and grow in a healthy way.

This activity is designed to further develop students' understanding of the characteristics of insects. Students will be sorting insects from non-insects that they themselves find in a sample of pond water.

Children will investigate leaves by observing, playing a game, sorting and journaling in a science notebook.

This activity is a classroom introduction to bird migration. Students will acquire new vocabulary, sharpen their map skills, and discover the scientific reasons some birds migrate.

This activity is based on inquiry, guided discovery, observation and discussion to help students learn the objectives in learning more about a fish, labeling its body part and learning about its life cycle.

This activity is a field investigation where students begin to generate ideas about what is living and nonliving by observing and recording what they see in a defined area outdoors and later sharing things that they think are living and why.

This activity is a classroom guided inquiry lesson where the student will sort, identify, and classify Minnesota fish.

This activity is a classroom and field investigation where students will group Minnsota fish families and create their own pop can fishing rods.

This activity is a first grade life science activity where the students practice inquiry skills by developing questions about seeds, planting them and noting details about how they change as they grow.

In this activity students learn about the life cycles of many aquatic insects and then on a fieldtrip collect and analyze samples of pond life.

This activity is designed to help students learn common names of pond life in Minnesota. To be most effective students should make a visit to the pond before participating in this activity.

This activity is a field exploration where students observe, record and share their findings of plant and animal life on the prairie.