Spark Student Curiosity

These four guides offer quick and easy activities to spark your student’s curiosity about the natural world. Depending on your student’s interests, you can choose one or complete all four. Each guide has an activity than can be used alone or used as an entry point into inquiry-based science. Learn more about our nature-based inquiry unit Students as Scientists.

Spark Student Curiosity with a Feeder Design Challenge Guide

Student-designed feeders.

This guide introduces a student engineering design challenge that connects them with nature.


Spark Student Curiosity with Wildlife Cams Guide

Still of wildlife cam.

This guide helps your students to experience the beauty and complexity of the outdoors from the comfort of your classroom through live-streaming wildlife cams.


Spark Student Curiosity with Participatory Science

Student with Merlin Bird ID

This guide engages your students in a real-world science project and has them submit their data to one of the world’s largest biodiversity databases.


Spark Student Curiosity with Outdoor Exploration

A girl sits outside on a sunny lawn drawing a sound map.

This guide encourages students to observe and wonder about the world around them while visiting a sit spot throughout the semester or year.