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In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners use their sense of smell to explore the world on the nanoscale.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners work in pairs using their senses—especially touch—to learn more about individual trees.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners investigate the olfactory system by conducting several experiments.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners investigate the touch sensory system and discover how to plan and carry out their own experiments.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor game, learners role play predator and prey to explore the importance of keen hearing and silent stalking skills in the animal world.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners sniff out scents hidden in balloons! After investigating, learners discover we sometimes can use another sense (smell) to detect things too small to see.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to learn to differentiate between qualitative and quantitative observations and to practice data collection.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 24-34), learners explore the four-part stomach of cows (and other grazing animals called ruminants), and compare it to the human one-part stomach and its digestive process.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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This is an activity in which learners will find that they can detect differences in concentration better with their nose (smelling) than with their eyes (seeing).

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (5th activity on the page), learners explore how what you see influences taste. In experiment 1, learners taste five sodas, one of which is clear soda with orange food coloring.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this culinary activity, learners use multiple senses (sight, smell, touch, and taste!) to explore real seaweed samples.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on page 5 of PDF), learners use dry ice and household materials to make scientifically accurate models of comets.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate color vision as well as plan and conduct their own experiments.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this four-part activity, learners explore how the body works and the chemistry that happens inside living things.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes