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Hold a Hill
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

Who Goes There?
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In this outdoor, night activity, learners track nocturnal animals' footprints, droppings and other signs of their presence.

Cardiac Hill
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In this outdoor activity linking human health to the environment, learners use their pulse rates as a measure of the effort expended in walking on different slopes.

Ants
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate ant behavior by testing ant feeding reactions to different types of food.

Fish Wheels
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In this activity, learners cut out and assemble wheels to explore how variations in fish body structures (mouth shape/position/teeth, body shape, tail shape, and coloration patterns) allow fish to sur

Salt Water Revival
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In this outdoor activity, learners visit the intertidal zone of a rocky coastal site well populated with marine organisms.

Jay Play
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In this outdoor activity, learners find out the color of food that jays prefer and then try to change the birds' preference by altering the taste of the food with salt.

Mapping a Study Site
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In this outdoor activity, learners use a mapping technique to become oriented to the major features of an outdoor site.

Trail Impact Study
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In this outdoor activity, learners plan a simple foot path and create an environmental impact study of the natural area where the path would be.

Size Wheel
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In this fun sticker activity, learners will create a size wheel with images of objects of different size, from macroscopic scale (like an ant) to nanoscale (like DNA).

Out of Control
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In this outdoor activity, learners release a portion of a lawn from human control—no mowing, no watering, no weeding, no pest control—and then investigate the changes that result over several weeks.

Junk-in-the-Box
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In this outdoor activity, learners explore how a surprising number of animals use human-made litter, such as cans and crumpled paper, to find food and shelter in their environment.