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

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make pykrete by freezing a mixture of water and a material like cotton wool, grass, hair, shredded paper, wood chips, or sawdust.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - adult 4 to 24 hours
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners explore an aquatic site such as a pond, lake, stream, river or seashore to find and investigate plants and animals that live in water.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor activity, learners become beachcombers as they walk on a sandy beach in search of evidence of life.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor water activity, learners explore evaporation by painting with water and tracing puddles. Learners will discover that wet things become dry as the water evaporates.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 6 45 to 60 minutes
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Lakes, streams and other freshwater bodies are a habitat for lots of living things, big and small.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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Millions of organisms can live in and around a body of water.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor, ocean-side activity, learners investigate the distribution of organisms in the upper region of the intertidal zone.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 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 outdoor beach activity, learners use a variety of "beaks" (such as trowels, spoons or sticks) to hunt for organisms that shore birds might eat.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this indoor or outdoor water activity, learners pour water from small cups to large cups and containers. In doing so, they discover water takes the shape of its container.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 6 30 to 45 minutes
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In this two-part outdoor activity, learners conduct a population census of squirting clams on a beach or mudflat, and investigate the clams' natural history.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor activity, learners race small boats, made of cork, balsa wood, popsicle sticks etc., to investigate the rate and direction of currents in a stream or creek.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for the warmest and coolest, windiest and calmest, wettest and driest, and brightest and darkest spots in an area.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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This outdoor activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Sand Dunes) is a full inquiry investigation into how the amount of moisture in a sand dune relates to the number of plants growing

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this outdoor water activity, learners explore how to change the direction of water flow. Learners make puddles in dirt or use existing puddles and sticks to make water flow.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 6 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners go "can fishing" and discover the kinds of aquatic organisms that live in and on submerged cans.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes