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In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.

In this activity learners will create paint out of natural materials. Explore your natural world (or your fridge) and find berries, leaves, or flowers to find a great base for your paint.

In this activity, learners experiment and observe how the color of materials that cover the Earth affects the amounts of sunlight our planet absorbs.

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

In this activity, learners simulate nature's water filtration system by devising a system that will filter out both visible and invisible pollutants from water.

In this simulation, learners model two elephant seal populations and how they change over time. Learners start with cards representing a variety of seals.

Learners will build a lung model to understand how their lungs and diaphragm work to make them breathe.

In this activity, learners will review the functions of basic digestive organs, understand how diet affects digestion, understand how digestive tracks may differ, and then step outside to compare the

This lesson plan revolves around studying the speciation of the Galápagos mockingbirds, which are on display at the California Academy of Sciences.

Learners use a variety of beans to represent a variety of species, and scatter these beans over a large piece of paper representing the environment.

This guide outlines how to plant a garden even if you don't have a yard!

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

In this activity, learners will build a design and build a place for pollinators to drink from.

In this outdoor activity, learners investigate spider webs and feeding behavior, particularly how spiders trap food in their sticky silk webs while not getting stuck themselves.

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

Many people get water from a source deep underground, called groundwater.

In this matching game, learners study the limits of life on Earth to see what other places in the solar system might sustain microbial life.

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.

An estuary is a body of water that is created when freshwater from rivers and streams flows into the saltwater of an ocean.

In this activity, learners explore how genetic switches function and the role of genetic switches in the process of evolution.