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In this activity, learners play a game to simulate the food chain.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this simulation of natural selection, learners use binder clips in three different sizes to represent the diversity of beak sizes in a bird population.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor game, learners simulate a herd of deer trying to survive in an area called the "home range." Learners explore the concept of "carrying capacity"—what size population of an organism can

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners are challenged to eat some candy as a cell would need to as well as to think about some of the problems that arise when a cell ingests food.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 14 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, leaners will observe the process of natural selection on a population of birds called 'Springbeaks' over four seasons of breeding on an isolated environment called 'Clippy Island.' L

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this yummy earth science activity (page 5 of the PDF), learners use fudge to learn about different kinds of lava.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this kinesthetic activity, learners move pom-pom "ions" across a membrane to simulate how an action potential is propagated along an axon.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this simulation activity, learners act as parts of the circulatory system and discover how it serves as a transport system for food/nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide and waste.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the engineering design process (EDP)—the process engineers use to solve design challenges.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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This lesson will helps learners answer the question: How does the bombardment of micrometeoroids make regolith on the moon?

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners perform an experiment that models a chromatography-like process called electrophoresis, a process used to analyze DNA.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners visit the intertidal zone of a rocky coastal site well populated with marine organisms.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners create an electrical circuit and investigate how some dissolved substances conduct electricity.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection by encouraging them to formulate questions that can be answered through scientific investi

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners use a model for how fishing affects marine life populations, and will construct explanations for one of the reasons why fish populations are declining.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection through data collection and pattern recognition.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (on page 14 of PDF), learners use a pan full of flour and some rocks to create a moonscape.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (page 12), learners apply the concepts of pixilation and pointillism to the world of biomedical science.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners drop impactors onto layers of graham crackers!

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes