This is a set of four interactive activities designed to build familiarity between students from different schools. Educators can choose one or more of these activities to use at the end of a first day with another group.

This is a thirty minute movement-based activity that models the rock cycle. Students move through the rock cycle, learning the various pathways a rock can take to become sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic.

Participants will become a Sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) and must battle the tides, natural predators, human impacts, and disease in order to eat, reproduce, and survive in the intertidal zone.