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Food for the Brain
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  In this activity, learners dissect a piece of pizza to learn about nutrients important for health.
   
Patterns and Relationships: The Magic Box
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  In this math lesson, learners participate in a variety of activities that give them experience in recognizing, describing, and extending repeating and arithmetic patterns.
   
Measurement: It Takes Ten
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  In this math lesson, learners practice estimation and measurement skills as they move from station to station calculating length, volume, weight, and area.
   
How Greenhouse Gases Absorb Heat
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  Learners observe two model atmospheres -- one with normal atmospheric composition and another with an elevated concentration of carbon dioxide.
   
Geometry and Spatial Relations: It's a Perfect Fit
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  In this three-part math activity, learners explore shapes. In part one, learners identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes.
   
Cool It
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  In this outdoor activity/game, learners use thermometers to simulate how lizards survive in habitats with extreme temperatures.
   
Statistics: Button, Button
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  In this math activity, learners read "The Button Box" by Margarette S. Reid and then make their own button boxes filled with different buttons.
   
Off Base
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  In this activity, learners explore the factors that tend to resist changes in pH of the ocean and why the ocean is becoming more acidic.
   
Great Steamboat Race
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  In this outdoor activity, learners race small boats, made of cork, balsa wood, popsicle sticks etc., to investigate the rate and direction of currents in a stream or creek.
   
Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) with Powdery Mildew Fungi
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  This exercise can be used to stimulate the investigative nature of learners as they use forensic plant pathology techniques to prove the learners' innocence in a mock murder investigation.
   
The Carbon Cycle and its Role in Climate Change: Activity 1
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  In this activity (on page 1), learners role play as atoms to explore how atoms can be rearranged to make different materials.
   
A Tree of Genetic Traits
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  Learners mark their traits for tongue rolling, PTC tasting (a harmless, bitter chemical), and earlobe attachment on tree leaf cut-outs.
   
Pollinator Play
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  In this activity, learners will build a bee hotel for pollinators. Learners will explore building and ecology through this activity.
   
A Recipe for Traits
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  In this genetics activity, learners create and decode a “DNA recipe” for a dog by randomly selecting strips of paper that represent DNA.
   
Wintergreen
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  In this outdoor, winter activity, learners find living green plants under the snow and determine the light and temperature conditions around the plants.
   
Microbes are Everywhere
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  In this four-day activity, learners grow bacteria and/or fungi from a variety of locations and compare the results.
   
Potato Power
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  Learners combine hydrogen peroxide with three different forms of potato: raw chunks, ground chunks, and boiled chunks.
   
Clam Hooping
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  In this two-part outdoor activity, learners conduct a population census of squirting clams on a beach or mudflat, and investigate the clams' natural history.
   
Mystery of the Disappearing Cottonwoods
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  Learners will explore the scientific mystery behind a disappearing group of trees by examining data and attempting to explain the decline.
   
Wild Sourdough
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  In this activity, learners explore chemistry and the microbial world by making their own sourdough starter and bread at home using only flour and water.
  