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Sticklers
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In this outdoor simulation game, learners search for pretend animals called "sticklers" to determine and map where they live (habitat) and how spread out they are in that area (distribution).
Bugs, Worms & Others
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In this creative outdoor activity, learners invent populations of make-believe organisms and then investigate real populations living in the activity site.
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.
Energy Choices Board Game
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This board game teaches learners about energy decision making. Players select cards that determine the transportation and home design that will influence their expenses as they play.
An Interdisciplinary Deer and Human Population Study
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This activity helps the learner answer the question: "What environmental problems arise due to animal and human overpopulation and what might need to be done to combat these problems?" Learners play a
Sound Off!
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This activity includes several games about animal sounds. Using their sense of hearing and communicating with various kinds of noisemakers, learners role-play predator and prey.
Tree Poker
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In this activity (p.14-15 of PDF), learners discover the concepts of competition and limiting factors as they relate to plant and animal communities.
Exploring Fabrication: Self-Assembly
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In this activity, learners participate in several full-body interactive games to model the process of self-assembly in nature and nanotechnology.
Scram or Freeze
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In this outdoor activity and animal-role-play game, learners discover and uncover the hidden world of "cryptozoa"—organisms such as spiders, salamanders and slugs that live under objects, like rocks a
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.
Quick Frozen Critters
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In this activity, learners play an active version of freeze tag based on predator/prey relationships.
Population Study Game: Oh, Deer!
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In this activity, learners model a population of deer and see how the number of deer changes over time.
Bat Echolocation
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In this activity, learners investigate how bats use echolocation to navigate. One learner is assigned to be a bat, while the other learners are selected to be either moths or trees.
Shake It!
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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.
What am I?
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In this activity, learners examine nanoscale structures of common things.
Zoo Calendar
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Use the Zoo Calendar (page 1 of PDF) to involve learners in interdisciplinary, whole language, and writing activities about ecological concepts.
Fuzzy Worms
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In this activity, learners explore the concepts of natural selection and observable traits in a game that can be played at home.
Follow the Scent
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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
Cool It
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In this outdoor activity/game, learners use thermometers to simulate how lizards survive in habitats with extreme temperatures.
Logs to Soil
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In this outdoor activity, learners cut through and investigate rotten logs and then make log-profile puzzles for each other.