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Caution! Wildlife Crossing
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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.
From Polliwog to Frog
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In this activity, learners discover how frogs' bodies change while growing from a tadpole to a frog. Learners create a simple craft that gives a visual display of the metamorphosis process.
Sound Charades
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In this game, learners create flash cards with an image on one side (of an animal, for example) and the sound that animal makes on the other.
Universal Indicator Rainbow Trout
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In this activity, learners cut out a fish and then "paint" it using universal indicator and acids and bases.
Toad Abode: Creating a Home for a Backyard Toad
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In this activity about backyard habitats learners create a safe and toad-friendly environment near their own home.
Ask an Elder
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In this activity, learners listen to a story and tell a story of their own as they learn about the importance of elders in Native American cultures.
Basking Basics
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In this activity, learners will explore reptile biology by taking temperature readings in various places and comparing them.
Paper Animals
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This resource contains ideas and brief instructions on how to build animals out of construction paper and other simple materials.
Make a Dinosaur Model
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur skeletons, anatomy, and locomotion. Learners compare and contrast dinosaur skeletons and drawings.
Planaria Fishing
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In this activity, learners capture and observe planaria, which are worms that eat tiny pond critters.
Animal House
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The goal of this activity is to design, build and test a house or toy for an animal.
Temperature Time Warp
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In this activity, learners explore the behavior of cold-blooded animals. Learners discover what happens when they change a fly's temperature.
Attention!
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In this outdoor art/environmental activity, learners create designs that will attract attention to animals and plants in particular habitats, and then test whether their designs attracted the "right"
Animal Anti-Freeze
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In this outdoor winter activity, learners search for and create hibernation sites that will protect gelatin "animals" from freezing.
Small Snails, Enormous Elephants
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This activity (located on page 2 of PDF) introduces learners to the real size of animals using nonstandard measurement.
Ants
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate ant behavior by testing ant feeding reactions to different types of food.
Discovery Time: Birds
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In this activity, young learners, (2 years and up) explore bird behavior and adaptations by providing a homemade bird feeder and observing birds.
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.
Race for Survival
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During this interactive "survival" game, students learn about the importance of camouflage and how it helps animals to blend into their surroundings, as either predator or prey.
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.