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Creating a Soil Map
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In this activity, learners investigate soil conditions by creating a soil map. Learners record soil characteristics and compare the conditions of soil in different grid sections.

Take It in Stride
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In this health and fitness activity, learners focus on the importance of daily physical activity, specifically walking.

Shake a Shrub
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This is an activity where learners will discover what types and how many insects live in their own backyard.

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.

Planaria Fishing
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In this activity, learners capture and observe planaria, which are worms that eat tiny pond critters.

Cool Trees
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This warm weather activity introduces learners to the impact trees have on blocking the sun's heat and reducing temperature on the Earth's surface.

Self-Portrait Silhouettes: Activity 2
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In this activity, learners make a photographic image—without a camera!

Big Sun, Small Moon
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Learners will explore the concept of angular distance, and investigate why the moon appears to be the same size as the sun during a solar eclipse, despite the sun being much larger.

Workin' It Out
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In this activity, learners explore how to stay fit the fun way. Learners participate in three physical activities.

Starting Your Container Garden
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This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!

Is It Living?
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This activity (on pages 10-12 of the PDF) encourages learners to consider what makes living things different from non-living things.

Styrofoam Traps
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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.
Splitting White Light
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In this optics activity, learners split white light into all its component colors using three household items: a compact disc, dishwashing liquid, and a hose (outside).

Lilliputian Landscaping
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In this activity, learners examine the different materials gardeners add to their soil, and discuss how these materials are important for plant growth.

A Slice of Apple Fly
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In this activity, learners build an instrument for catching and observing flies. Learners act as entomologists, attract flies into a jar using a slice of apple, and then observe the flies' behavior.

Population Study Game: Oh, Deer!
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In this activity, learners model a population of deer and see how the number of deer changes over time.

Plants Count
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In this activity, learners put on their naturalist hats and explore the world around them.

The Blindfolded Walk
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In this activity, learners work in teams to study the observation skills essential to scientific research.

Pinhole Viewer
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In this activity, learners discuss and investigate how cameras, telescopes, and their own eyes use light in similar ways.

Trash Traits
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In this activity on page 24, learners perform experiments to examine whether or not trash can float, blow around, or wash away.