These Activities Sheets, each on a single theme, include word and number games, art exercises, and fun quizzes. With each activity, kids learn about something new, from the anatomy of the giant squid to the history of chocolate.
Make your way through a maze and solve a rhyming word puzzle as you get to know three creatures who have reigned at the top of the ocean’s food chain. Something to Chew On (PDF)
Also, check out the National Museum of Natural History's Ocean Hall.
Learn all about the giant squid, a real-life sea monster. You can figure out the size of the creature by drawing yourself swimming next to one. Sizing Up a Squid (PDF)
Try matching four kinds of food with the trees they come from. Get the answers by completing the last lines of poems about the trees. Fruitful Exercises (PDF)
Can you guess the identity of an early model of a common household object? Gather clues in a crossword puzzle and a number game. Mystery Invention (PDF)
Unscramble letters to identify cool pictures from the Apollo 11 mission, the first voyage that brought people to the moon.
Walking on the Moon (PDF)
In 2004, a team of Japanese scientists went fishing for the giant squid and snagged one that seemed to be about 25 feet long. It put up a fight and broke free, but not before the scientists got the world's first pictures.
Photo courtesy of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera.