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Follow the Scent
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In this outdoor, sensory activity, learners role play as animals trying to identify their "family's" scent and locate their "territory." Learners mark their territories and sniff out other territories
Building Houses: Build a Cardboard Tube House
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Build a house you can fit inside, using cardboard tubes.
Seed Adaptations
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By participating in a seed scavenger hunt, learners examine many adaptations of seeds, including how many seeds a plant makes, how those seeds travel to new locations, and what protects them from pred
How Active Are You?
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In this activity, learners explore what is and is not active play and how it contributes to a healthy body and mind. Making active play a routine part of every day is a key concept of the experience.
Hoopster: An Airplane Made from Paper Hoops
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This activity provides instructions for making an aircraft that can really fly using a straw and paper hoops!
Exploration Vehicles
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Using recycled materials, learners will design a transportation vehicle to carry an egg in an egg toss (a rudimentary model of a shock absorbent transport vessel).
Mystery Marauders
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In this outdoor, mystery-solving activity, learners work like detectives, gathering evidence to identify the culprits that are attacking plants.
Four of the States of Matter
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This kinesthetic science demonstration introduces learners to four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
Fitness Factor
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In this online activity, learners partner up to complete several physical exercises and assess their starting fitness level.
Scent Tag
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In this matchmaking activity (on page 2 of the PDF under GPS: Animal Scent Activity), learners will each have a scented cotton ball taped to their shoulder. The scent (e.g.
Sawing Away
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In this outdoor activity, learners saw sections from fallen trees, then count tree rings and look closely at patterns of tree growth.
Logs to Soil
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In this outdoor activity, learners cut through and investigate rotten logs and then make log-profile puzzles for each other.
Ins and Outs of Respiration: Determine your Respiratory Rate
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Learners will determine their respiratory rate and explore the factors that affect breathing rate by filling out and using the Respiratory Chart provided in the lesson.
Bouncing Balls
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When baseball was in its infancy, the ball had plenty of bounce. Today's baseball may not seem to have bounce to it at all; if you drop a ball on the field it won't bounce back.
Creating a Local Field Guide
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In this activity, learners survey living organisms near where they live or go to school, and create a local field guide.
Exploring Size: StretchAbility
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In this game, learners explore the different sizes of things in the world. In this Twister-like game, learners must place a hand or foot on a circle of the right scale - macro, micro, or nano.
Circulatory System Skit: Act out the Flow of Blood
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In this activity, learners act out the flow of blood in the human body! A great way to get learners up and moving while learning about the circulatory system.
Trail Construction
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In this highly physical outdoor activity, learners construct and compare experimental trail sections to select the best trail-construction technique for their site.
For the Birds
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In this outdoor activity, learners turn the fun of feeding wild birds into an investigation of bird behavior.
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