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In this activity, learners compare their own strength to ants through a series of physical tests.

This game plays a dozen different sounds, altered to simulate what they would sound like if you had hearing loss.

In this activity on page 7 of the PDF (Plants—The Green Machines), learners examine the effects that light and air have on green plants.

In this activity, learners use maps to locate the Northwest Coastal region.

In this activity, learners will observe birds in their backyard or local park. They will attempt to find common Ohio birds and will look for bird behaviors just like an ornithologist.

In this optics activity, learners build a spy tool to secretly view things over walls or around corners.

In this activity, learners will explore the roles of different animals in the food chain. They will create their own food chain using organisms of their choice.

During this activity, learners take part in a variety of tasks which involve moving and balancing different body parts.

In this neuroscience activity (5th activity on the page), learners explore their sense of touch without using their senses of vision and hearing.

Educator Amy O'Donnell from the American Museum of Natural History guides learners to create a diorama of a coral reef.

Are fingers the only place on the body where we use our sense of touch? In this activity (6th activity on the page), learners test the touch sensitivity of different parts of the body.

In "Chemistry Makes Scents," participants use their noses to distinguish between chemicals with very similar structures.

In this activity (page 5 of the PDF), learners will create a food web and explore food sources for different organisms. They will identify relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.

In this craft activity, learners will compare and contrast the major functions of plants and animals.

In this activity, learners create models of bugs. Learners use household materials like plastic cups and straws to create models of bugs like centipedes and spiders.

In this activity, learners will experiment with the physics of forces - kinetic energy and friction while making a moving toy woodpecker.

In this activity, learners play a trick on their own brain to see if the brain can learn to ignore distracting input. Colors and words are used to play the visual trick, known as a Stroop Test.

In this activity, learners will learn about proprioception, or the body's sense of its place and position in space.

In this activity, learners construct a playable kazoo from inexpensive materials. They will experience how vibration creates sound waves and music.

In this activity, learners examine ways that Native Americans of the Southwest express their relationship with nature through art.