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In this activity, learners perform an experiment that replicates the dilemma faced by birds in acquiring food from a confined area.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor archaeology activity, learners use mathematical skills and scientific inquiry to generate and process information from their own excavation site.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this outdoor activity, learners compare the moisture released from different kinds of leaves and from different parts of the same leaf, by observing the color change of cobalt chloride paper.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity (p.7-8 of PDF), learners examine fossil formation.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners catch and observe water striders to explore their movement and feeding behaviors.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners will discover what it takes to be a frog. By dressing up like one, learners can visualize how each part of the frog plays an important role in surviving its habitat.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (Page 22 of PDF), learners investigate the evolution of wheat by washing different types of dough with water and comparing the results.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (Page 25 of PDF), learners investigate the evolution of wheat by creating dough from different flours, observing the samples of dough as they rise, and then baking the dough.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity (on pages 30-36), learners simulate a dig for ancient pollen, to experience how paleobotanists study fossilized pollen in rocks to learn about early geological and climatological even

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners compare and contrast different forms of luminescence by observing how chemiluminescence, phosphorescence, and fluorescence produce or emit light.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this archaeology meets art activity, learners make a mosaic and consider the ways in which art communicates.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
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In this simulation game, learners play as predators equipped with genetically different “mouths” (utensils) and hunt for “prey” (assorted beans).

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this classic activity, learners investigate natural selection by becoming birds foraging for food on an island.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this outdoor activity, learners make models of homes that might protect small animals from the elements, then search living plants for real structures made by small animals.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct models of plants that are adapted to living under specific environmental conditions.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor, sensory activity, learners role play as animals trying to identify their "family's" scent and locate their "territory." Learners mark their territories and sniff out other territories

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the work of paleontologists.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners visit the intertidal zone of a rocky coastal site well populated with marine organisms.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners explore dinosaur fossils by making an edible treat. First, learners read "Dinosaur Bones" by Aliki to examine how fossils are formed.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 8 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor activity, learners go "can fishing" and discover the kinds of aquatic organisms that live in and on submerged cans.

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