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Gummy Growth
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  In this activity related to Archimedes' Principle, learners use water displacement to compare the volume of an expanded gummy bear with a gummy bear in its original condition.
   
Hike the Habitat: Field Trip in Canyonlands National Park, Utah
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  This detailed lesson plan for a field trip to Canyonlands National Park in Utah (page 32 of pdf) teaches students about the habitat of bighorn sheep.
   
Dinosaur Bone Experiments
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  This activity features two connected hands-on activities about dinosaur bones.
  Hexagon Hunt
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  This activity gets learners looking at 6-sided shapes in nature, including the cells of a beehive, as well as other shapes.
   
Pesticides and Eggshell Thinning
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  This lab activity is about toxic substances like pesticides and their effects on biological systems. The activity starts with an introduction of how birds sequester calcium to make an egg.
   
Hatch-a-Cyst
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  What is the optimal environment for hatching brine shrimp? Using a scaffold, learners design and conduct experiments testing the effect of a single abiotic factor on brine shrimp cyst hatch rate.
   
Transformation of E. coli Using Green Fluorescent Protein
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  In this activity related to plant biotechnology, learners transform a strain of E. coli using green fluorescent protein from a bioluminescent jellies.
   
An Interdisciplinary Deer and Human Population Study
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  This activity helps the learner answer the question: "What environmental problems arise due to animal and human overpopulation and what might need to be done to combat these problems?" Learners play a
   
Paper Mache Dinosaurs
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  In this activity (located on page 6 of PDF), learners observe and reproduce the distinctive physical features (i.e. plates, sharp spikes, long necks, deep jaws, claws) of their favorite dinosaurs.
  