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How Plants Grow
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In this biology activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will explore how plants turn sunlight into food through a process called photosynthesis.

Do Plants Need Light?
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In this food science activity, learners conduct an experiment that demonstrates the importance of light to plants.

What's Hiding in the Air?: Acid Rain Activity
As a model of acid rain, learners water plants with three different solutions: water only, vinegar only, vinegar-water mixture.

Moving On Up: Capillary Action 1
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Over the course of several days, learners explore the property of water that helps plants move water from roots to leaves or gives paper towels the capacity to soak up water.

Moving On Up: Capillary Action II
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Learners explore capillary action in plants (such as plants ability to move water from roots to leaves) in an investigation called Paper Blooms.

Sand Dunes
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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

The Carbon Cycle and its Role in Climate Change: Activity 2
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In this activity (on page 7), learners explore the meaning of a "carbon sink." Using simple props, learners and/or an educator demonstrate how plants act as carbon sinks and how greenhouse gases cause

Water Treatment
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Water treatment on a large scale enables the supply of clean drinking water to communities.

The Carbon Cycle and its Role in Climate Change: Activity 3
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In this activity, learners explore the human influences on the carbon cycle and examine how fossil fuels release carbon.

What-a-cycle
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In this activity, learners act as water molecules and travel through parts of the water cycle to discover that it is more complex than just water moving from the ground to the atmosphere.
Leaves: Extracting Pigments
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In this fun, hands-on autumn activity, learners experiment to discover whether the colored substances in leaves can be separated from the leaves.

Of Cabbages and Kings
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This lesson gives full instructions for making cabbage juice indicator, a procedure sheet for learners to record observations as they use the indicator to test materials, and extension activities to d

Odors Aloft
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Learners smell balloons filled with different scents to guess what's inside. From this, they infer the presence and motion of scented molecules.

Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt
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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.

Environmental Chemistry
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In this activity with several mini experiments, learners explore the chemistry that helps scientists learn about the environment and how they can help save it.

The Water Cycle
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Did you know that the water we use today is the same water found on Earth millions of years ago? The Earth constantly uses and recycles water in a process called the water cycle.

Fragile Waters
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In this activity (on pages 18-29) learners explore the impact of the March 24, 1989 oil spill in Alaska caused by the Exxon Valdez tanker.

Water Quality and pH Levels in Aquatic Ecosystems
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In this fun and in depth hands-on experiment, learners test various liquid samples (distilled water, lemon juice, vinegar, and baking soda mixed with water) to determine their pH levels and identify e
What Does Life Need to Live?
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In this astrobiology activity (on page 11 of the PDF), learners consider what organisms need in order to live (water, nutrients, and energy).