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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...
Life Science There are 11 items.
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Plant Hunting
Go outside and investigate different types of plants using a magnifying glass, camera, notebook, and (optional) app, then see if you can classify them. 0
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Drawing Nature
Practice your artistic skills to help communicate your observations of a plant, insect, or animal. 0
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Pressing Plants
Collect and preserve a plant, much like researchers have done for hundreds of years for identification, research, and education. 0
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Bug Hunting
Go outside and investigate different types of bugs, then see if you can classify them. 0
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Family Take-home Activity A take-home that can be sent with patrons that wish to do STEM activities at home. These at-home activities cover similar topic areas as the associated activity and could be handed out at the conclusion of a program or left on a circulation desk for patrons to take home. -
Pond Dipping
Go outside and collect creatures from a pond. After making observations, return the creatures to their home. 0
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Bird Feeders
Create a simple bird feeder for families to take home and observe bird species in their backyards. 0
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Family Take-home Activity A take-home that can be sent with patrons that wish to do STEM activities at home. These at-home activities cover similar topic areas as the associated activity and could be handed out at the conclusion of a program or left on a circulation desk for patrons to take home. -
GLOBE Observer: Mosquito Habitats
This citizen science toolkit of resources and activities will support your library in mapping and collecting data about mosquito habitats in your area. 0
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Water Hunt Maze Activity
Participants play a game using dice and a maze while learning about how people collected water in the past. 0
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A Watershed Community
Participants learn about elements of a healthy watershed and build a model of it on butcher paper. Then, they add human elements to the watershed and learn about how humans can positively and negatively affect the health of a watershed. 0
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First Come, First Served
Participants role-play various scenarios of competing water use as they learn about water rights and the principles of how water is "allocated" or divided in watersheds. 0
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Ancestral Pueblos
This series of activities helps patrons develop a basic understanding of the Ancestral Pueblos of the Southwest United States - where they lived, what they lived in, and how they lived. The last section is focused on the Puebloan people of today. 0
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