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Habitat Adaptation Matchup
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In this activity, learners work in small groups to match various marine animals with their different environments.
Invent an Insect
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In this creative activity, learners will find out what makes an insect an insect by studying examples of insect adaptations and by examining why there are so many different types of insects.
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"
Amphibian Skin
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of permeability to better understand why amphibians are extremely sensitive to pollution.
Invent an Insect
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In this creative activity, learners will find out what makes an insect an insect by studying examples of insect adaptations and by examining why there are so many different types of insects.
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.
Invent a Plant
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In this activity, learners construct models of plants that are adapted to living under specific environmental conditions.
Fish Family Identification
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In this game, students will become familiar with fish shapes, learn that fish within a given taxonomic family have similar body shapes, and discuss how different body shapes enable fish to survive in
Beach Finds Curiosity Cart
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In this activity, learners observe hard parts of sea creatures (shells, molts, etc.) to better understand marine environments.
It's All About Birds
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In this activity, learners create their own bird species using arts and crafts materials. The bird call recordings are not online so the introduction activity can't be done, but everything else can.
Shark Cart
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In this activity, learners touch and observe skulls of sharks and rays to learn about their diversity (over 400 species of sharks alone!).
What Lives Here
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners explore an aquatic site such as a pond, lake, stream, river or seashore to find and investigate plants and animals that live in water.
Make Your Own Sea Otter
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In this activity about sea otters, learners make their own "otter whiskers" and use them to find objects underwater.
Whale Cart
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In this activity, learners interact with whale artifacts such as replicas of skulls, bones, teeth, and baleen (hair-like plates that form a feeding filter).