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INTRODUCTION LAB 1 Tapputi-Belatikallim b. 1200 BCE* FRAGRANCE DISTILLATION LAB 2 Galen b. 129 CE* SOAP LAB 3 Jabir ibn Hayyan b. 815 CE* EVAPORATION LAB 4 Joseph Priestley b. 1733 CARBONATION LAB 5 Antoine Lavoisier b. 1743 OXIDATION LAB 6 Alessandro Volta b. 1745 CHEMICAL BATTERIES LAB 7 William Henry Perkin b. 1838 SYNTHETIC DYES LAB 8 Dmitri Mendeleev b. 1834 THE PERIODIC TABLE LAB 9 Svante August Arrhenius b. 1859 TEMPERATURE AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS LAB 10 Agnes Pockels b. 1862 SURFACE TENSION LAB 11 Marie Curie b. 1867 ELEMENTAL EXTRACTION LAB 12 S. P. L. S rensen b. 1868 THE PH SCALE LAB 13 Mikhail Tsvet b. 1872 CHROMATOGRAPHY LAB 14 Alice Ball b. 1892 ORGANIC OIL EXTRACTION LAB 15 Gerty Cori b. 1896 THE CORI CYCLE LAB 16 Maria Goeppert-Mayer b. 1906 THE NUCLEAR SHELL MODEL LAB 17 Rachel Carson b. 1907 DISPERSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS LAB 18 Anna Jane Harrison b. 1912 ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT LAB 19 Rosalind Franklin b. 1920 DNA STRUCTURE LAB 20 Edith Flanigen b. 1929 MOLECULAR SIEVES LAB 21 Tu Youyou b. 1930 MEDICINAL PLANT COMPOUNDS LAB 22 Ada Yonath b. 1939 RIBOSOME STRUCTURE LAB 23 Margaret Cairns Etter b. 1943 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY LAB 24 Linda Buck b. 1947 OLFACTORY CHEMISTRY LAB 25 Raychelle Burks b. 1975 COLORMETRIC SENSORS GLOSSARY RESOURCES AND REFERENCES THE PERIODIC TABLE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR INDEX

Lab 1 Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1778) German: Use blue ice cubes to see how cold water moves in ocean currents. Lab 2 Eunice Newton Foote (b.1819-1888) American: Do a greenhouse gas experiment in a bottle to see how carbon dioxides traps heat. Lab 3 Jean Henri Fabre (b.1823) French: Build an insect habitat to study insect behavior and habitat requirements. Lab 4 William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) American: Capture invertebrates in pitfall traps, soil sieves and aquatic sieves to study population diversity. Lab 5 Eugenius Warming (1841-1924) Danish: Make a paper cactus with accordion folds to see how cacti expand when it rains. Lab 6 George Washington Carver (b.1864) American: Grow beans to see how different soil conditions affect growth. Lab 7 Ed Ricketts (1897-1948) American: Build a tide pool in a tub and make waves to learn about shoreline invertebrates. Lab 8 G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991) English: Build a diorama of an ecosystem to illustrate niches occupied by different animals. Lab 9 Dora P Henry (1904-1999) American: Use bottle caps, yarn and frosting to study the life cycle of barnacles and learn how they attach to rocks, boats and whales. Lab 10 Rachel Carson (b.1907) American: Make a Secchi disk to test water clarity and take water samples from a local pond, lake or stream. Lab 11 Eugene Odum (1924-2002) American: Rope off a biodiversity square and see how many plant and animal species you can find. Lab 12 Akira Miyawaki (1928-2021) Japanese; Plant chia seeds on a slope to see how trees protect soil from wind and water erosion. Lab 13 E. O. Wilson (1929-2021) American: Make a sweep net to capture and study invertebrates. Observe insects in their natural habitats. Lab 14 Sylvia Alice Earle (b.1930) American: Create an oil spill in a bowl and experiment to see which materials remove oil from the water. Lab 15 O'Neil Ray Collins (1931) American: Dissect a mushroom and make prints from the spores. Lab 16 C.S. Holling (1930-2019) Canadian: Search for animal footprint and make casts of them. Identify the animals as predator or prey. Lab 17 Wanari Maathai (b.1940) Kenyan: Germinate beans or tree seeds in a jar and transplant the seedlings. Lab 18 Robin Wall Kimmer (b. 1953) American: Observe and collect moss/ look for tardigrades Lab 19 Rodrigo Medellin (b.1957) Mexican: Do an echolocation experiment to illustrate how bats locate their prey. Lab 20 Dana Bergstrom (b.1962) Australian: Use water, your breath and a stuffed animal to see how seeds are dispersed by ocean, wind and animals. Lab 21 Aparajita Datta (b.1970) Indian: Observe insects such as butterflies, caterpillars, bees, aphids and beetles to learn about the relationship between plants and animals. Lab 22 Lisa Schulte Moore American: Make prairie plants from chenille sticks to see how long roots reach for water and prevent soil erosion. Lab 23 Lesley de Souza (b.1977) Brazilian/American: Build a rainforest terrarium or an aquatic ecosystem. Lab 24 Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (b.1980) American: Use carbonated water and red cabbage juice to see how carbon dioxide acidifies ocean water. Lab 25 Jodie Darquea Arteaga ( ) Ecuadorian: Make a fishing net from a produce bag and use candy fish to see how dolphins, turtles can be entangled.

Introduction Chapter 1: Crafts Make Your Own Recycled Paper at Home Make Natural Playdough Create Napkins Out of T-Shirts Make a Nature Buddy Make Your Own Cloth Wrap Using Furoshiki Make a Papier-Mache Pinata Make Zero Waste Confetti Make Paper Seed Cards Make Your Own 3-D Tree with Fruit Peel Decorations Make a Bag-and Use It for Anything Chapter 2: Food Make Your Own Granola Bars at Home Make Wax Food Wraps Pack a Zero Waste Lunch Go Zero Waste Grocery Shopping Chapter 3: Gardening & Composting Make a Windowsill Garden Grow Your Own Sprouts Make a Raised Garden with Repurposed Materials Build Your Own Compost Bin Build a Bee Hotel Build a Bird House for Your Garden Make Your Own Seed Balls Chapter 4: Nature Sit and Observe Activity Make Pressed Flowers Make a Bird's Nest Build A Shelter/Home in Nature Go "Plogging" and Pick Up Litter Plant a Community Fruit Tree Chapter 5: Zero Waste Activities Conduct a Trash Audit Create a Zero Waste Home Trash Sorting Exercise Make a Reusable Zero Waste Travel Kit Declutter and Donate Have a Zero Waste Party Chapter 6: Activism and Making a Difference in Your Community Reuse School Supplies Project Food Waste Fiasco Create Signs to Make Recycling and Composting Simple There is No Away: Hold on to Your Trash for a Week Garbage Art Project Have a Clothing Swap 50 Changes About the Author About the Contributors Acknowledgments Index