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Paths and Ponds
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In this activity, learners use squares to figure out how many border tiles are needed to enclose different areas.
Growing Plants: Track Their Growth
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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.
Starting Your Container Garden
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This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!
Pollinator Bath
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In this activity, learners will build a design and build a place for pollinators to drink from.
Lighting Up Celery Stalks
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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
How do we name things?
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In this activity, learners will learn a bit about botany as the explore botanical names and common names of plants.
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.
Zany Zen Garden
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In this activity, learners will turn an ordinary tray of sand into a desk-top garden for meditation.
The Colors of Flowers
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In this activity, learners perform an experiment to find out what determines a flower's color.
Out of Control
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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.
In Search of Pollen
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In this activity (on pages 9-14), learners dissect a real flower -- the kind of work botanists do.
Egg Carton Nursery
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In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.
Rip It Up And Start Again - Composting
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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.