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Share Your Planet
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In this cooperative game, learners devise strategies about sharing a small space with each other.
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.
Pinball Wizard
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In this hands-on engineering project, kids use two simple machines, levers and inclined planes, to construct their own pinball machines.
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.
Exploring the Universe: Space Guess Quest
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Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.
Hidden Rainbow
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In this math puzzle, one player hides a rainbow of four colors while another player tries to guess the hidden rainbow colors in the correct order.
Eat Like a Bird
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Birds' beaks are designed to allow birds to get the most of whatever food they need. In this activity, learners get an idea of how different beak shapes suit different food sources.
Taste Match Game
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In this activity (3rd activity on the page), learners taste test different foods and categorize them as sweet, bitter, sour, or salty. Learners compare their results with the group.
Work Up An Appetite
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In this activity, learners participate in fun movement activities while playing on a giant game board. Use this activity to get learners involved in physical activity.
The Great Toss Off!
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In this math game, learners toss plastic cups to land just right and collect points to win.
Where the Buffalo Roam
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In this activity, learners explore the Great Plains.
Pom-Pom Probability
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In this math activity, learners predict how many pom-poms they can toss inside a circle from three feet away. Use this activity to help learners explore probability.
Fly a Leaf
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In this outdoor, windy day activity, learners "fly" and race leaves along a line to discover which types of leaves catch the most wind. Which leaves are the best fliers? Why?
Bank It!
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This simple but open-ended math game introduces basic probability concepts using coins and dice. Players roll the dice and collect coins to match the number rolled.
Smell Match
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In this matching activity (3rd activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to match pairs of opaque containers filled with various smelly items like orange peel, roses, or moth balls.
Sticklers
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In this outdoor simulation game, learners search for pretend animals called "sticklers" to determine and map where they live (habitat) and how spread out they are in that area (distribution).
Bugs, Worms & Others
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In this creative outdoor activity, learners invent populations of make-believe organisms and then investigate real populations living in the activity site.
Games of Chance and Brains
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In this activity, learners build and play three math games. In the first game, called "Switcheroo," learners place marbles in holes 1 through 4 and 7 through 10.
Sound Off!
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This activity includes several games about animal sounds. Using their sense of hearing and communicating with various kinds of noisemakers, learners role-play predator and prey.
Tree Poker
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In this activity (p.14-15 of PDF), learners discover the concepts of competition and limiting factors as they relate to plant and animal communities.