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Thrush Songs: An Interactive Game
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  In this interactive game, learners listen to the songs of four different thrushes and then try to match each bird with its song.
   
Build a Giant Puzzle!
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  In this activity, learners assemble large cubes to make nano-related images. Learners discover how different objects are related to nanoscience and nanotechnology.
   
What am I?
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  In this activity, learners examine nanoscale structures of common things.
   
Fossil Rocks
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  In this activity, learners will discover how fossils are dug out of the earth by carefully exposing treasures hidden in an artificial rock that is easily made at home.
   
Exploring Structures: Butterfly
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  In this activity, learners investigate how some butterfly wings get their color.
   
Biomimicry: Synthetic Gecko Tape Through Nanomolding
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  In this activity/demo, learners examine a synthetic gecko tape with micron sized hairs that mimics the behavior of the gecko foot.
   
I Spy Nano!
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  In this game, learners try to find nano-related objects on a game board. Learners investigate the different ways nano is in the world around us.
   
Monitoring Amphibians
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  In this field study, learners discover how to collect data in the field and how their efforts can help certain animals, specifically, amphibians.
   
Creating a Local Field Guide
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  In this activity, learners survey living organisms near where they live or go to school, and create a local field guide.
   
Soak It Up: Understanding Amphibian Permeability
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  In this activity, learners will discover how the thin layers of amphibians' skin allow water and other chemicals to pass through it.
   
Exploring Size: StretchAbility
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  In this game, learners explore the different sizes of things in the world. In this Twister-like game, learners must place a hand or foot on a circle of the right scale - macro, micro, or nano.
   
Bug Hotel
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  In this activity, learners will create a home for animal friends in their backyard using recycled materials. Some material suggestions include: pine straw and twigs.
   
Seas in Motion
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  In this outdoor, beach activity, learners use tennis balls, water balloons and other simple devices to investigate the movement of waves and currents off a sandy beach.
   
Clippy Island: An Investigation into Natural Selection
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  In this activity, leaners will observe the process of natural selection on a population of birds called 'Springbeaks' over four seasons of breeding on an isolated environment called 'Clippy Island.' L
   
Pósteres Sobre Animales y Matemáticas
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  Exponga estos pósteres en el salón o déjelos donde los chicos los puedan explorar. Los chicos buscan las respuestas en libros de consulta o en línea.
   
Ant Super Strength
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  In this activity, learners compare their own strength to ants through a series of physical tests.
   
Evolution in Action: Isolation and Speciation in the Lower Congo River
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  In this guided discussion activity, learners watch a video about Central Africa's Lower Congo River, one of the most biologically diverse rivers in the world.
   
A Better Fly Trap
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  In this activity, learners observe fly behavior and then build a flytrap.
   
Clam Hooping
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  In this two-part outdoor activity, learners conduct a population census of squirting clams on a beach or mudflat, and investigate the clams' natural history.
   
See the Light
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  Learners mix a solution of luminol with hydrogen peroxide to produce a reaction that gives off blue light.
  