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Materials for Experiments

Male betta fish Live predators (praying mantis or
Fish bowl spiders or carnivorous plants)
Mirror for fish bowl Live red worms (about 20)
Chicken egg Small piece of fruit
Vinegar White and black spray paint
Glass 20 feet of rope
Lizard in a terrarium (borrow one?) Graph paper (optional)
Video camera Non-flexible straw
Roasted chicken Salt
Variety of bird feathers (collected Glass
from nature) Distilled water
Dead insects of your choice Permanent marker
Birdseed Clay
Poster board in a variety of colors Paint can (we’ll use the lid for the
Water bottle secchi disk and the pail for the
2 flexible straws waterscope) OR plastic gallon-size
Fifteen clean and empty 2-liter jug
soda bottles with caps (check your Large rubber band
local recycling center) Plastic film (like saran wrap)
One small plastic lid that fits inside
the soda bottle (like from a yogurt Tools:
or butter tub) scissors
Aluminum foil (12” piece) razor with adult help
Plastic vial (like an M&M container hot glue gun
or a film canister) masking tape
1 yard (or meter) of cotton twine
or rolled up paper towel Optional Dissection Materials:
Brown paper grocery bag Simple dissection tools (forceps,
Newspaper tweezers, scissors, scalpel, T-pins,
fast-growing plant seeds (radish, mounting board, clear plastic ruler)
grass, turnips, Chinese cabbage, Starfish specimen
moss, etc.) Earthworm specimen
Flexible or clip-on style lamp with Clam or oyster specimen
fluorescent bulb Owl Pellet
Soil, twigs, leaves, and organic
plant material

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