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This outdoor activity/field trip requires a place where minnows swim, such as a local pond or brook.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Investigate a flower's power of marketing by making an imitation flower that successfully signals a bee (or other pollinator of your choice) to visit.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Cave Swallows Activity) is a full inquiry investigation into bird behaviors.

free Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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Dig a hole, line it, fill it with fresh water, and you have a water hole: a good place to study colonization.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 12 months
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In this outdoor activity and bingo-like game, learners explore why and how seeds spread far from the plants that produce them.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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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).

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners investigate the relationship between the slope of a trail and soil erosion.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor biology and math activity, learners estimate the size of a population of organisms too numerous to count.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this family or group inquiry activity, learners use their senses to explore a local forest or woodland.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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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.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor, night activity, learners track nocturnal animals' footprints, droppings and other signs of their presence.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this outdoor activity, learners find, count and compare as many different kinds of animals as they can find in two different areas: a managed lawn and a weedy area.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this inquiry-based lesson, learners measure the biomass of trees, calculate the carbon stored by the trees, and use this information to create recommendations about using trees for carbon sequestra

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this environmental science activity, learners research what is essential for plant life and the necessary components of soil to support plants.

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
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In this environmental science activity about biodiversity, learners play a game to discover the effects of non-native species on an ecosystem.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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Millions of organisms can live in and around a body of water.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make their own bug boxes and test the habitat preference of selected "minibeasts" (bugs).

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours