Invite students to complete the Think Spring Word Find . The activities in this section can be used with, or adapted for use with, almost any age group. Then arrange students into groups and assign each group a region of the country. Encourage students in each group to keep track of the air temperature in several cities in their assigned region and to find the dates of this year's final frost in those cities. Use the information from all groups to create a new map, and encourage students to compare the two maps.
Younger students can obtain and compare information for their own state.
Arrange students into groups, and help each group build a different kind of bird feeder. Place the feeders outside the classroom and encourage students to record the kinds of birds that are attracted to their feeders. Have students make a chart showing the information for each feeder. Help students conduct the experiments at Plants to learn about photosynthesis. Encourage students to learn about insects at Entomology for Beginners and The Butterfly and Moth Life Cycle .