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Water Holes to Mini-Ponds
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Dig a hole, line it, fill it with fresh water, and you have a water hole: a good place to study colonization.

Rock Pioneers
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners investigate organisms that live along the ocean's rocky coast.

Tabletop Biosphere
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In this activity, learners create a sealed, mini ecosystem that supplies freshwater shrimp with food, oxygen, and waste processing for at least three months.

A Degrading Experience
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In this activity on page 27, learners perform an experiment to learn about how different types of marine debris degrade and how weather and sunlight affect the rate of degradation.

The Shadow Knows I
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In this activity, learners will measure the length of their shadow from the Sun and compare it three to four months later.

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.
Trees: Buds and Twigs
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In this hands-on nature activity, learners observe the emergence of leaves and flowers. Branches from trees and bushes are collected in the early spring, brought indoors, and placed in water.