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In this activity, learners create colorful bead bracelets to wear outside while searching for matching colors in plants. Learners will be surprised by the variety of colors in nature.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 8 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners learn about the adaptations that flowers have developed which support pollination. Learners also list their personal preferences (i.e.

free Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this plant science activity, learners role play as vegetables and weeds competing for nutrients.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners put on their naturalist hats and explore the world around them.


free Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners will examine a variety of seeds, describe them, and determine how they are dispersed.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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In this outdoor activity, learners make their own organic-rich soil. Depending on where this activity is done, learners will probably discover that their local soil is low in organic matter.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity (Page 30 of PDF), learners investigate the evolution of wheat by conducting sedimentation tests on different flours.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make slides of onion cells and their own cheek cells. Use this lab to teach learners how to prepare microscope slides and use a microscope.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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, learners make three different "seed" types and determine which design flies the farthest.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this outdoor activity/field trip, learners explore an aquatic site such as a pond, lake, stream, river or seashore to find and investigate plants and animals that live in water.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 1 to 4 weeks
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In this activity related to plant biotechnology, learners extract DNA from fruit to investigate how it looks and feels.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this chemistry challenge, learners identify which plants have the enzyme "catalase" that breaks hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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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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This lesson introduces learners to the world of nematodes (roundworms).

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 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 outdoor activity that can be combined with a hike, learners try to match a "mystery community" by shaking animals out of different trees and shrubs.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this laboratory exercise, learners will discover how many different plant hosts they can find that are infected by the same genus of a powdery mildew fungus, or how many different genera of powdery

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this outdoor, ocean-side activity, learners investigate the distribution of organisms in the upper region of the intertidal zone.

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