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

Animal Attraction
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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.

Abuse-a-Cyst
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In this activity, learners examine how brine shrimp populations can survive in some of the harshest environments.

Caution! Wildlife Crossing
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In this design challenge, learners use their creativity and imagination to design and test a wildlife crossing for their favorite animal.
What Do Birds Do?
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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.

Deer Me: A Predator/Prey Simulation
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In this activity, learners will simulate the interactions between a predator population of gray wolves and a prey population of deer in a forest.

Water Holes to Mini-Ponds
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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.

Algae in Excess
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Plants need nutrients to grow. This is why we apply fertilizers to grass and food crops. In this activity, learners will explore how fertilizers can affect lakes and other bodies of water.

Seed Dispersal
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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.
Mercury in the Environment
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In this environmental science lesson, learners will examine the dangers of mercury and how humans contribute to growing mercury emissions on Earth.

Disease Detective
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This activity (on pages 35-43) lets learners analyze a "herd of elk" to detect the spread of a bacterial disease called brucellosis.

The Missing Link
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In this activity, learners collect, analyze, and interpret information about objects in order to classify them into a cladogram. Use this activity to talk about how scientists classify things.

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).

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.

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.
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.

Animal Hats
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In this arts and crafts activity about animals and animal characteristics, learners will design animal hats and role-play as animals.

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.

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.