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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, learners use a microscope to examine three different microbes: bacteria, yeast and paramecia. Educator will need to prepare the yeast solution one day before the activity.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity (p.25 of PDF), learners investigate spores. Mushrooms produce millions of spores which are equivalent to the seeds of plants but without the massive food reserves.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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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, 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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In this activity related to microbes, learners create scale models of microorganisms and compare relative sizes of common bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa using metric measures: meters, centimete

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 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 activity, learners are divided into teams.

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