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

Share Your Planet
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In this cooperative game, learners devise strategies about sharing a small space with each other.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Underwater ROV
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In this online Flash game, learners will explore a coral reef using an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

Animal Diversity
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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.

Saldo Island: An Unfair Game
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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.

Dinosaur Sock Puppet
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In this activity about dinosaurs, learners first participate in a group discussion about where and when dinosaurs lived, how big they were, and who studies them and how.

Corals on Acid
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The objective of this inquiry-based lesson is for learners to gain an understanding of how increasing ocean acidity can affect the calcification of marine organisms.

Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt
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In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.

Malformed Frogs
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Malformed Frogs) is a full inquiry investigation into using indicator species to assess the health of an environment.

Exponential Models: Rhinos and M&M’s ®
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In this math lesson, learners model exponential decay and exponential growth using M&M's, paper folding, and African rhino population data.

Hopper Herding
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In this outdoor activity and game, learners roundup a "herd" of hopping insects and find out how many different kinds or species are in their herd.