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A Funny Taste
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In this activity, learners explore the different salinities of various sources of water by taste-testing.

Isopods
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In this outdoor activity, learners dig for and collect isopods (sometimes known as "roly-poly bugs" or "potato bugs" and other names).

Nature Painting
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In this activity learners will create paint out of natural materials. Explore your natural world (or your fridge) and find berries, leaves, or flowers to find a great base for your paint.

Box Ecology
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This great "re-use it" activity will demonstrate how to transform a greeting card into a box. Once constructed, the box can have many uses like holding special notes or keepsakes.

The Scoop on Habitat
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Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

Glove Gardens
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In this activity, learners create a garden in a disposable glove. They learn about the conditions necessary to make the seeds sprout and actively participate in caring for their plants.

Hold a Hill
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

Lichen Looking
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In this outdoor activity, learners search for lichen, a combination of a fungus and an alga living together. Lichen grow where most other plants cannot, on rocks, the trunks of trees, logs and sand.

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.

Blowin’ Up a Storm of Oil
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In this activity, learners investigate how wind can create surface currents and how waves move. Learners also discover how wind can affect oil spills.
Bat Echolocation Experiment
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In this activity, learners discover how bats use echolocation to get information about objects in their environment. During the activity, one learner whispers into a tube.

Kelp Critters
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This marine biology activity (on pages 11-17) introduces learners to kelp (seaweed) forests that grow in the ocean and are home to many species of sea animals.

Fragile Waters
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In this activity (on pages 18-29) learners explore the impact of the March 24, 1989 oil spill in Alaska caused by the Exxon Valdez tanker.

Bean Bugs
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In this outdoor biology and math activity, learners estimate the size of a population of organisms too numerous to count.

Water Clean-up
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under Water Clean-up Activity) about the use of reduction agents to decontaminate ground water.

Take a Hike!: A Family Forest Walk
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In this family or group inquiry activity, learners use their senses to explore a local forest or woodland.

Flocking for Food
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In this outdoor beach activity, learners use a variety of "beaks" (such as trowels, spoons or sticks) to hunt for organisms that shore birds might eat.

I Like to Move-It
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This is an activity which will allow learners to gain an understanding of lemur behavior through observation and role play.

How Plants Grow
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In this biology activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will explore how plants turn sunlight into food through a process called photosynthesis.

Plugged in to CO2
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In this activity, learners investigate various appliances and electronics, discovering how much energy each uses and how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released to produce that energy.