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Plant Parts You Eat
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In this food science activity, learners observe different plant-originated foods.
Rainforest Plant or Animal?
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In this craft activity, learners will compare and contrast the major functions of plants and animals.

Plant Hunt
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In this outdoor activity and game, learners collect and sort leaf samples to determine how many types of plants grow in the activity site.

Dichotomous Key
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In this classification activity, learners will learn one way of organizing plants and animals.

Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) with Powdery Mildew Fungi
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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.

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

Free-living and Plant-Parasitic Nematodes (Roundworms)
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This lesson introduces learners to the world of nematodes (roundworms).

Powdery Mildew Fungi: Classification and Ecology
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In this laboratory exercise, learners will discover how many different plant hosts they can find that are infected by the same genus of a powdery mildew fungus, or how many different genera of powdery

Habitats of the Pond
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners locate and study plants and animals in several freshwater pond habitats.

Build a Coral Polyp
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In this activity, learners build one or more edible coral polyps and place them together to form a colony.

Wetland Bioblitz
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This activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Temperate Rain Forest Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into biodiversity of a given habitat.
Plants: Hanging Tough
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In this hands-on activity, learners will become familiar with the special adaptations of rainforest plants and discover the conditions needed for tropical trees to survive along with what can impinge

Breaking Point
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In this activity, learners build penetrometers to test leaf toughness. Biologists measure leaf toughness to study the feeding preferences of insects and bugs.

Lichen Looking
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for lichen, a combination of a fungus and an alga living together. Lichen grow where most other plants cannot, on rocks, the trunks of trees, logs and sand.

A Touch of Class
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In this online game, learners test their skills of categorization.
River Catcher
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In this activity (located at the top of the page), learners make an easy river strainer and see what they can catch.

Take a Hike!: A Family Forest Walk
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In this family or group inquiry activity, learners use their senses to explore a local forest or woodland.

How We Know What The Dinosaurs Looked Like: How Fossils Were Formed
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In this activity (p.7-8 of PDF), learners examine fossil formation.

Magnifying and Observing Cells
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In this activity related to microbes, learners make slides of cells from an onion skin and Elodea (American or Canadian waterweed) to observe under a microscope.

Gaming in the Outdoors
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In this set of outdoor games, learners increase their awareness of the outdoor environment by going on a scavenger hunt and an out-of-place hunt.