science

Family sitting outdoors and drawing a map of nearby natural and human-made sounds

Environment & nature

Make a five-minute sound map of your surroundings

Adult and children observing and mapping visible litter from a safe path

Environment & nature

Survey visible litter without asking children to pick it up

Children comparing outdoor surface temperatures in sun and shade with an adult

Environment & nature

Sun or shade? Run a safe surface-temperature comparison

Parent and two children recording appliance and lighting observations during a safe home energy walk

Environment & nature

Become a home energy detective without touching wires

Adult and child measuring water from a dripping kitchen tap

Environment & nature

Find a dripping tap with a safe family water check

A multigenerational family observes a beetle, bird, mushrooms and plants during a small biodiversity count.

Environment & nature

Run a family mini BioBlitz without disturbing wildlife

A wheelchair-using caregiver and child plant colourful flowers in balcony pots while bees and butterflies visit.

Environment & nature

Create a pollinator-friendly balcony or container garden

Two teenagers and a caregiver follow coloured latitude and longitude bands around a tabletop globe.

Geography & Earth

Play a latitude-and-longitude treasure game

A caregiver, teenager and younger child sort picture cards beside bowls of avoidable and unavoidable food scraps.

Environment & nature

Run a one-week family food-waste audit without blame

A father and two children compare cloud and weather symbol cards with a colourful map near a window.

Geography & Earth

Read simple weather-map symbols and make a family forecast

Two children pour equal amounts of water onto matching soil trays, one bare and one covered with leaves.

Geography & Earth

Does ground cover slow erosion? Run a fair rainfall test

A caregiver and two children trace blue water paths across a crumpled-paper model of hills and valleys.

Geography & Earth

Build a paper watershed and watch where runoff travels