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Bioblitz at the Library: Celebrating Biodiversity
Invite your community on a walk around the library’s outdoor spaces to...
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Una guía para ayudar a la naturaleza a recuperar su espacio
Esta guía de siete pasos explica cómo dejar que una parcela de tierra...
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Help Nature Reclaim its Space: Library Facilitation Guide
Help your library create a space for nature to recover! This activity...
We Are Water There are 29 items.
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Trees: Recorders of Climate Change
Patrons examine the cross section of a tree, or "tree cookie," and discover how climate conditions of the past can be determined by the thickness of the tree rings. 0
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Who Lives in the Water
Participants investigate the quality of a stream by identifying insects (macroinvertebrates) with the help of keys and photos. The amount of certain species of macroinvertebrates can help indicate if the stream is healthy or not. 0
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Build-A-Bug
Participants learn about the different adaptations of a macroinvertebrate by dressing up a volunteer or using art to create their own aquatic bug. Make this a "Take & Make" activity by providing a printed copy of pages 3-6 of the guide, craft materials, and an invitation for patrons to "Create their Own Aquatic Bug!" 0
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Implementation Guide Provides extensive background information, facilitation outline, materials shopping list, extended supporting media suggestions, correlations to national standards, and more. -
Water Cycle Relay Race
Participants learn about the water cycle by playing a relay race vocabulary game. 0
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Toolkit Activity
A Drop in the Bucket
Through a visual presentation, the students will learn the different sources of freshwater, and the relative ratios of these water sources on the earth. 0
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Paddle Power
In this engineering design challenge, patrons use simple materials and the engineering design challenge to build paddle boats! 0
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Foil Boats
Patrons design and build a boat from aluminum foil that can hold as many pennies as possible before sinking or capsizing. 0
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Precipitation Towers
Participants create 3D graphs using stackable cubes, such as Legos, to observe and compare preciptation levels from several different locations. 0
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It All Runs Downhill
Participants build a model of a watershed to demonstrate how rainfall carries pollution into the ocean and other bodies of water. 0
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Water Cycle Paper Craft
Patrons learn about how the water cycle works by creating a 3-D paper craft. 0
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RadTown Uranium Activities
These six activities explore uranium mining and the impact it has left on the people and the environment. Activity #3 relates to mining in the four corners region and its effects on Navajo workers, and activity #6 focuses on what cleanup and advocacy efforts have been (and need to be). 0
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Walk Through Time: Water in the Four Corners Region...
This brand new activity allows patrons to learn more about their community's history with water through an engaging outdoor History Walk! Try out this draft activity and leave a review to tell us how it went! 0
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