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In this activity, learners will turn an ordinary tray of sand into a desk-top garden for meditation.

Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.

In this activity, learners will explore nature by creating food for birds. Learners will develop fine motor skills and engage in nature observation through this activity.

In this activity, learners explore the human influences on the carbon cycle and examine how fossil fuels release carbon.

Align four color transparencies, each one a single color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), and see a beautiful full color image.

This activity has three story puzzles learners can solve to learn about life in the Arctic.

In this activity, learners learn about the adaptations that flowers have developed which support pollination. Learners also list their personal preferences (i.e.

In this activity, "write" a secret message in genetic code as beads on a string.

Learners make their own paper. They start by shredding old newspaper, clean toilet paper, and clean paper towels.

Have you ever heard of a camera without a lens? In this activity, learners create a pinhole camera out of simple materials. They'll see the world in a whole new way: upside down and backwards!

This activity (on pages 13-18) has learners build a model tree and then figure out how to make their tree stand up by itself.

Make a one-string "guitar" by stringing a cup with some fishing line. You amplify the plucking of the string by placing a piezo contact microphone and mini battery powered amplifier inside the cup.

Learners design and create musical instruments from common objects; their challenge is to create an instrument that can make three different tones.

This outdoor activity/field trip requires a place where minnows swim, such as a local pond or brook.

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) is a cloning method that involves transferring a nucleus from a somatic cell of the individual to be cloned to an enucleated egg.

In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons, anatomy, and locomotion. Learners compare and contrast dinosaur skeletons and drawings.

The goal of this activity is to design, build and test a house or toy for an animal.

This fun activity uses simple materials such as milk cartons and mirrors to introduce the ideas of optics and visual perception.

This activity requires a Pico Cricket (tiny computer). Learners work on designing and building a sound sensor out of household materials, like plastic wrap and cardboard.

In this activity, learners use maps to locate the Arctic region and use a word game to discover the types of resource people need to survive in the extreme climate.