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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.

Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

In this activity, learners capture and observe planaria, which are worms that eat tiny pond critters.

The goal of this activity is to design, build and test a house or toy for an animal.

In this data analysis activity, learners quantify the abundance and distribution of sea scallops in and adjacent to the Mid-Atlantic closed areas.

Learners create a model of a wetland to observe how it absorbs and filters water from the environment.

In this activity related to climate change, learners create and explore topographical maps as a means of studying sea level rise.

In this data analysis activity, learners use data collected by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to study Chilean sea bass populations.

Learners create three solutions with different levels of salinity. They compare the density of these solutions by coloring them and layering them in a clear plastic cup and in a soda bottle.

In this activity, learners use Styrofoam to collect organisms from a pond, estuary or marine environment and then examine what they have caught with a microscope.

In this activity, learners will create a diagram of the ocean zones and determine what organisms live in each zone.

In this experiment, learners will explore whether increased carbon dioxide makes our oceans more basic or more acidic.

This is a guide for facilitating interaction at a touch tank with marine animals. The instructions are for setting up a display in an informal science center, but could work anywhere.

In this data collection activity about crabs, learners use data from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) trawl survey to determine the areas of the Chesapeake Bay that are being used by bl

In this activity, learners experience firsthand how marine animals' adaptive coloration camouflages them from prey.

Some bugs can walk on the surface of a lake, stream, river, pond or ocean.

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

In this activity, learners build a model of a self-sustaining habitat (growing grass and beans from seeds).

In this activity, learners survey living organisms near where they live or go to school, and create a local field guide.

In this data analysis and environmental science activity, learners examine the effects of pollution on amphipods using data from the Chesapeake Ecotox Research Program.