Day 1: Earth is always changing, whether we can see it or not. It can be changed by rain, wind, or extreme temperatures. Go to your backyard or a place nearby and either draw or take a picture of it. Notice the soil, the flowers, the grass. Label your picture. Do you see any grass worn away? What do you notice about your yard?

Day 2: Look around your neighborhood. Try to find puddles or areas of water where there is no movement and stay there for ten minutes. Either draw it or take a picture of it. Is it clean or dirty? Do any insects or animals use it?

Day 3: Fill a container with soil from your yard or surroundings. Leave it outside while you do this experiment! First, blow on the soil with a straw from 12 inches away. What happened to the soil? Now try 6 inches. Now pour water on it from 6 and 12 inches. Where did you see the most change?

Day 4: Take an empty water bottle or soda bottle and fill it halfway with water. Then put some soil and sand in it. Shake it up. Time it to see how long it takes for all of the dirt to go to the bottom of the water. What does this tell us about water that "looks clean" at the top?

Day 5: World Wondering-Take the time to wonder about how our earth is changing because of wind and water and how water is important for us, a well as many other forms of life, to live.

Day 6: Small or new plants need soil piled up around them to keep them growing tall and strong, but sometimes the soil erodes away. Find a flower or plant in your yard or neighborhood and build the soil up around it. Then build or create something around the pile to prevent the soil from eroding if it rains or gets windy.

Day 7: Investigate what happens when water is poured through two earth materials: soil and gravel. What are the similarities and differences of how water travels between the two materials? Try sand, too, if you have it!

Day 8: Design a water filter for cleaning water by either using the directions provided here or your own design. Be sure to go through the engineering design process.

Make a water filter

Day 9: World Warrior-Do something great for our planet. You can clean up some garbage, plant something, or give water to our plants our trees. If we all do one little thing, it helps our world so much! Send a picture to your teacher!

Day 10: Place a small rock near one end of a tray of soil about four inches deep. Take a straw and take a deep breath. Blow soil through the straw toward the rock. How many times do you have to blow through the straw to cover the rock? Can you connect this to how wind shapes and covers other items in nature?

Day 11: Watch how water can be created. Water can be a gas (water vapor) that’s part of the air around us. You can’t see it, so how do you know it’s there? Try this.

1. Fill a dry glass with ice cubes and water.

2. Go and do something else for about 15 minutes.

3. When you come back, look at the outside of the glass.

4. Run your finger over the outside of the glass. What do you feel? That's called condensation. Take a picture of it!

Day 12: Create an experiment to determine which combination prevents erosion the most: soil covered with grass, soil covered with gravel, or soil on its own. Pour the same amount of water in each sample. Either film it or record the results. Make sure that you have something at the neck of the bottles to catch the eroding material. Which option do you think would be best for our parks in Suffern?

Day 13: Design a rain gauge to capture and measure rainwater. Make sure that it is made of materials that can stay outside. Use a ruler and a Sharpie marker to help you develop your measuring tool on the outside of the rain gauge.

Day 14: Wish for the World-If you could wish for anything for this world, what would it be? Why would you wish for that?

Day 15: Go on an Insect Investigation in your neighborhood. Either draw or take pictures of what you find. Create a chart describing its characteristics and habitats.

Day 16: Did you know that water can act as a magnifying agent? Draw a picture in an area that is about 2 inches by 2 inches. Put your picture behind a clear, empty glass. Now, fill the glass of water and hold your picture behind it. How has it changed? Take pictures!

Day 17: Find an insect outside and watch it for ten minutes in its natural habitat. What do you notice? How does it move? What does it do? Now, put the insect in a container or box. What do you notice about its behavior? Make a chart comparing how it acts in nature and how it acts in captivity.

Day 18: Fill a cup with water. Now add oil to it. Stir it together to see what happens and write down what you observe. Try to remove the oil from the water. Can you do it? Think about how that might impact marine life when oil is dumped in our oceans and rivers. How can we fix that?

Day 19: Find an insect in nature. Make sure that it is one that you have been observing carefully. Create an insect habitat to provide for all of its needs such air, water, food, and space. Use any materials you have at home.

Day 20: Warning for the World-Some events are happening that are damaging our earth, animal life, insect life, and water. Make a poster or a video announcement to tell people to stop doing something that harms our earth and why they need to stop doing it.