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In this activity, learners use squares to figure out how many border tiles are needed to enclose different areas.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will be working with predictions with a time frame of one week, or longer. Start by planting seedlings.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
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This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity, learners will build a design and build a place for pollinators to drink from.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners conduct a series of hands-on experiments that demonstrate how the working of plants' veins, known as capillary action, enables water to travel throughout the length of a pla

$5 - $10 per student Ages 11 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners will learn a bit about botany as the explore botanical names and common names of plants.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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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.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will turn an ordinary tray of sand into a desk-top garden for meditation.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners perform an experiment to find out what determines a flower's color.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners release a portion of a lawn from human control—no mowing, no watering, no weeding, no pest control—and then investigate the changes that result over several weeks.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 1 to 12 months
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In this activity (on pages 9-14), learners dissect a real flower -- the kind of work botanists do.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity, learners will experiment to find how long it takes to compost paper. They will create their own compost container and test different variables.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - adult 1 to 4 weeks