• Why Do Some Birds Migrate?

    Published on May 4, 2023
    Migration is a pattern of behavior in which animals travel from one habitat to find food, water, shelter, or space.

  • What Do You See?

    Published on May 4, 2023
    Learning to observe is an essential skill for fully exploring and experiencing the wonders of our world.

  • Catch Me If You Can

    Published on May 4, 2023
    A predator is an organism that catches and eats other animals. Prey is the animal the predator feeds upon. Hundreds of different predator-prey relationships occur in nature.

  • Building Science Literacy & Future STEM Professionals

    Published on January 19, 2023
    To help create a future workforce excited about STEM careers and armed with important STEM skills, MSU Extension has made science education a key focus of its 4-H Youth Development programming.

  • Michigan 4-H Member's Personal Portfolio (4H1192)

    Published on November 9, 2022
    The Michigan 4-H Member's Personal Portfolio is designed to help 4-H members keep track of all of the things they have done and learned in 4-H over the course of their 4-H careers.

  • Teaching Science When You Don’t Know Diddly-Squat: What thread is the strongest?

    Published on September 1, 2022
    Teaching Science When You Don’t Know Diddly-Squat gives guidelines for teaching inquiry-based science and includes eleven activities.

  • Heads In, Hearts In: The Strongest Column

    Published on June 20, 2022
    In this project, you will build a table that can support six books using tape and paper.

  • Heads In, Hearts In: Hello! Who Is Calling?

    Published on June 20, 2022
    In this activity, you will build a model of a telephone. The goal of this activity is to build a model of a telephone to see which materials allow sound waves to travel best.

  • Heads In, Hearts In: Full Engineering Activity Book

    Published on June 20, 2022
    The Heads In, Hearts In family enrichment program encourages families to use their minds as a tool to expand their knowledge around a variety of topic areas. This packet contains all 16 engineering activities.

  • Heads In, Hearts In: A Tube Rube

    Published on June 20, 2022
    In this activity, you will design and build a Rube Goldberg machine to get a marble through a cardboard tube and into a cup.