Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: This Landfill Is a Gas!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students work as engineers to build and observe a model landfill. They will understand the process and pitfalls of the use of landfills as a method for the waste disposal.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Dwarf Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Because the Dwarf Shrew is so small, it doesn't trigger the older snap or box traps, and before 1966, only 18 specimens had been collected. With the use of pitfall traps, which are basically cans sunk into the ground so that the animal...