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In this four-part activity, learners will discover the exciting world of light--the most important form of energy in our world--and be able to identify and describe different types of light.

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners are introduced to robotic submarines called gliders. Learners make “gliders” from plastic syringes and compare these to Cartesian bottles and plastic bubbles.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners are challenged to design a planktonic organism that will neither float like a cork nor sink like a stone.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners role-play the part of lake inhabitants and the aquatic exotics who displace the native species.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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This activity provides a hands-on experience with a scale model, a relatively high viscosity fluid, and feeding behaviors.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this two-part activity, learners investigate buoyancy, density and surface area as well as biodiversity and the relationship between the structure and function of organisms.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this two-part lesson, learners discover how large bodies of water can serve as a heat source or sink at different times and how proximity to water moderates climate along the coast.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners will create a diagram of the ocean zones and determine what organisms live in each zone.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore density, convection, stratification, and, by inference, the melting of icebergs. Learners make hypotheses, test their hypotheses, and explain their observations.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners model, on a human-sized board game, how changes in water temperature may affect fish distributions and, ultimately, fisheries.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this game, learners match descriptions of marine debris (shoes, batteries, paper towels, etc.) to images of these items.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners take on the role of a carbon atom and record which reservoirs in the carbon cycle they visit.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners use open inquiry to learn about the process of science as well as gain experience regarding the Law of Conservation of Mass, dissolution, and density.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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This activity focuses on interactions within Earth systems and the effects of human activities. In this activity learners build a biomass pyramid.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of density-driven currents (thermohaline circulation) and how these currents are affected by climate change.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners construct a coastal landmass from sand and add features such as tidal creeks and barrier islands.

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