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Here you'll find short, lively activities to focus your class trip, or full-period lessons to integrate into your yearly curriculum. Dive in!
Highlights
In this classic activity, students trace allele frequencies in a population through many generations of bunnies.
What animals did your barn owl eat this week? Observe the bones it swallowed to identify its prey!
Do you know the relative sizes of the planets in our solar system? Put yourself to the test with some Play-doh.
You can make and test predictions using the simplest of invertebrates.
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4th Grade - 6th Grade
How do architects and exhibit designers optimize lighting? Contrast light levels among galleries to find out!
Preschool - 1st Grade
Compare and contrast animal body parts while exploring the museum.
7th Grade - 12th Grade
In this classic activity, students trace allele frequencies in a population through many generations of bunnies.
2nd Grade - 6th Grade
By building an edible polyp, you'll learn about coral anatomy and discover if it's a plant or an animal.
6th Grade - 10th Grade
Challenge your students to design an efficient bus system for a fictitious town.
6th Grade - 8th Grade
Learn about buoyancy by creating a creating a neutrally buoyant "scuba diver."
6th Grade - 12th Grade
Students will (unknowingly) act as predators on candy in this introduction to your unit on natural selection.
5th Grade - 12th Grade
Use weighted food cubes to start conversations about making better food choices for the planet's health!