Earth’s Birthday Project’s Hands-on Science provides teachers with simple activities to capture children’s imaginations by engaging them in close observation of animals and plants. Many feature encounters with live insects. All are developed to meet four important criteria.

Fun Teachers take deep pleasure in delighting and amusing their students—and children learn best from activities that open their senses and stimulate their minds.

Simple Because teachers face ever-increasing demands on their time and resources, our activities are simple to prepare and easy to integrate into a wide variety of classroom setups and prescribed curriculums.

Inexpensive We are committed to making EBP activities available to all teachers and students, regardless of restrictions in school budgets. All of our materials are free or cost less than $1.00 per student.

Effective More than 40,000 teachers in schools throughout the United States use our activities. We reach as many as a million children every year!