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Desert Water Keepers
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In this outdoor, sunny day activity, learners experiment with paper leaf models to discover how some desert plants conserve water.
Mussel Your Way Through Photosynthesis
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Using zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), elodea and an indicator dye, learners study the role of light in photosynthesis.
Making Connections: What You Can Do To Help Stop Global Climate Change
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In this cooperative learning activity, learners visit ten stations and are challenged to think critically about various conservation questions and issues.
Bird Beak Buffet
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In this classic activity, learners investigate natural selection by becoming birds foraging for food on an island.
Newton Car
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In this activity, learners work in teams to investigate the relationship between mass, acceleration, and force as described in Newton's second law of motion.
The Carbon Cycle Game
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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.
Mapping a Study Site
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In this outdoor activity, learners use a mapping technique to become oriented to the major features of an outdoor site.
Rutherford's Enlarged: A Content-Embedded Activity to Teach about Nature of Science
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This paper describes a working-model demonstration of Ernest Rutherford's 1911 experiment about the nature of atoms.
Terrestrial Hi-Lo Hunt
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for the warmest and coolest, windiest and calmest, wettest and driest, and brightest and darkest spots in an area.
Trail Impact Study
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In this outdoor activity, learners plan a simple foot path and create an environmental impact study of the natural area where the path would be.
Magnetic Pendulums
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In this activity and demonstration about electricity and magnetism, learners observe how the current generated when one copper coil swings through a magnetic field starts a second coil swinging.