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This activity helps students learn more about different animal behaviors . Get creative painting or drawing!

Try this experiment around your yard or school and see how biodiversity at the plant level affects biodiversity at the insect level.

For this experiment, we’re going to test the effect a hard soil layer has on plant growth and root development.

For this experiment, we’re going to test the effect that high salt soil concentrations have on plant growth and root development.

This activity helps students learn more about different animal behaviors to ensure pets are happy and stress free.

This experiment helps students compare vitamin C content and rank orange varieties or juice brands from highest to lowest.

This experiment helps students create a black light and use it to look at the fluorescence of different food items and plants .

ARS offers internship programs to current students and recent graduates, and even Presidential Management Fellowships, to explore federal careers as paid employees.

This experiment helps students learn the importance of having clean hands.

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These experiments help students learn about soil erosion.

This experiment helps students learn about growing plants with organic soil amendments.

This experiment help students learn about plant growth and root development. (Appendix A: Resource Material)

This experiment help students learn about plant growth and osmosis. (Appendix A: Resource Material)