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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 guÃa para ayudar a la naturaleza a recuperar su espacio
Esta guÃa 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...
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Steady Partner, Steady Seasons
In this kinesthetic learning activity, patrons explore how Earth's tilt creates the seasons and model how Earth's axis would wobble if its tilt was not stabilized by Moon. 0
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Ice and Seek: What is Ice?
Patrons explore different types of ices and learn to identify them based on clues, then match the type of ice to the planet or moon on which it occurs 0
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A Model of Three Faults
Patrons explore different types of earthquakes by observing fault movements on a model of the Earth's surface. 0
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Adaptations of Cave Critters
In this activity, patrons explore their creativity while they learn about a cave environment and create an organism that lives there! 0
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Analyzing Hurricanes Using Web and Desktop GIS
Patrons use a database from NOAA to map hurricanes from different decades, and then build their own map using data from National Atlas to learn about how hurricanes form 0
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Awesome Fossils
In this activity, patrons investigate model "rocks" to excavate "fossils" and learn about how paleontologists study fossils to learn about ancient landscapes 0
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Birdseed Mining
Patrons learn about mining processes by excavating different types of bird seed and evaluating the assigned dollar value and environmental costs 0
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Build Your Own Weather Station
Patrons learn about how atmospheric scientists use highly specialized instruments to measure weather processes, and create their own weather station that can measure relative humidity! 0
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Chemistry of Burning
Patrons explore the chemistry of fossil fuel combustion by building carbon molecules out of foam balls and pipe cleaners 0
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Chocolate Rock Cycle
In this sweet activity, patrons learn about the rock cycle using chocolate blocks! 0
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Citizen Science: NOAA Projects
Interested in getting involved in a "citizen science" project? This activity offers several ways to get involved in projects with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that support authentic learning! 0
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Cookie Mining
Patrons play a game mining chocolate chips out of cookies to demonstrate priniciples of mining: safeguard the environment while also earning money. 0
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