This full-color version of "Exploring Trees & Ponds: Winter Ponds Activities" features engaging investigations that bring middle school youth outdoors to explore the natural world using observation, digital photography, drawing, activity challenges, and scientific experiments. Written by EDC's Bernie Zubrowski--author of several children's books and former museum exhibit designer for the Boston Children's Museum--and funded by the National Science Foundation, these activities are designed to enable youth to carry out scientific inquiry and make discoveries for themselves through short- and long-term observations of their local environment. Visit http://treesandponds.edc.org to contact us, view a sample activity, find additional resources, or learn more about the other activity guides in this series--Fall Trees and Spring Trees.If you would prefer to buy a black and white version of this guide for $12.95, go to: https://www.createspace.com/4622309