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In this activity, learners use a laser pointer to project a microscopic image of a liquid sample suspended from the tip of a syringe.

Over $20 per group Ages 14 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners make slides of onion cells and their own cheek cells. Use this lab to teach learners how to prepare microscope slides and use a microscope.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners describe an object they can’t see. After someone picks outs a few mystery objects and places them in a pillowcase, learners will investigate using only their hands.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use coverslips to collect organisms from a pond, estuary or marine environment and then examine what they have caught with a microscope.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners use Styrofoam to collect organisms from a pond, estuary or marine environment and then examine what they have caught with a microscope.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity on page 1 of the PDF, learners compare the relative sizes of biological objects (like DNA and bacteria) that can't be seen by the naked eye.

free Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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This exercise can be used to stimulate the investigative nature of learners as they use forensic plant pathology techniques to prove the learners' innocence in a mock murder investigation.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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).

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners place cards featuring biological structures in order by their relative size from largest to smallest.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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This investigation provides learners with a hands-on activity that simulates the changing relationship of surface areas-to-volume for a growing cell.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Many of the genetic sequences found in the fruit fly genome are similar to those found in humans.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 14 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will plot the distribution of various oozes using information from sediment maps.

free Ages 14 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This lesson introduces learners to the world of nematodes (roundworms).

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity (page 37 of the PDF), learners observe, on a prepared slide, muscle and spinal cord cells from a rat.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a sealed, mini ecosystem that supplies freshwater shrimp with food, oxygen, and waste processing for at least three months.

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - 18 1 to 12 months
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This demonstration can be used to help learners visualize DNA by lysing (breaking open) bacterial cells on a slide and “stringing up” the DNA with a toothpick in less than one minute.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this laboratory activity, learners use a simple procedure to bait oomycetes from water and/ or soil and then examine these fungus-like organisms with the microscope to see how they look.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this four-part laboratory exercise, learners investigate properties of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) including (1) symptoms induced by the virus in susceptible plants at the macroscopic and microscopi

Over $20 per group Ages 14 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners are divided into teams.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 14 - 18 2 to 4 hours