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Growing Plants: Track Their Growth
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In this activity, learners will be working with predictions with a time frame of one week, or longer. Start by planting seedlings.

Discovery Time: Tracks
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In this activity, young learners, (2 years and up) explore animal behavior and adaptations by providing a "track trap" and observing the signs animals leave behind.

Discovery Time: Wildflowers
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In this activity, young learners (2 years and up) explore flower and plant biology and pollination by planting seed in a homemade seed starter.

Make a Friend from Soil and Seeds
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Learners assemble a figure from a nylon stocking or sock stuffed with soil and seeds. The ends of the nylons inside the jar absorb water, which feeds the grass seeds.

TerrAqua Investigation Column: What is the Land-Water Connection?
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In this investigation, learners plant seeds in a 2-liter bottle filled with soil that is connected to a water source below. Over the next few weeks, learners observe how the plants grow.

A Slice of Apple Fly
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In this activity, learners build an instrument for catching and observing flies. Learners act as entomologists, attract flies into a jar using a slice of apple, and then observe the flies' behavior.

Kimchee Fermentation Chamber
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Learners make kimchee or sauerkraut, which is really just fermented cabbage, in a 2-liter plastic bottle.

Egg Carton Nursery
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In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.