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Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
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Insects. Illustrations of a butterfly, fly, beetle, ant, and grasshopper on a green background with an illustration of grass.

What Is an Insect?

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Blue bioluminescent jellyfish with caption that reads, Bioluminescence means that plants and animals are able to create their own light.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Lights, Camo, Attraction! Exploring Ocean Bioluminescence

Hands-On ActivitiesArts & CraftsVideos and Webcasts
Three rectangular windows showing Briana Pobiner, a woman doing sign language, and a pair of paper cutout hands.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Exploring the Art of Ancient Humans

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Illustration using graphics and photos to show a coral reef scene, with orange, green, blue, and white corals, as well as fish, all on a blue background.

Constructing a Coral Reef

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Ingrid Rochon holding up a craft she made depicting a rainforest tree

Webinar: Natural History at Home – At Home in the Rainforest Canopy

Arts & CraftsVideos and Webcasts
Powerpoint slide with text, Many seabirds migrate! Plus images of a brown pelican, Audubon's shearwater, Laysan albatross, Arctic tern, Arctic skua, and a black-capped petrel.

Webinar: Flying High – The Journey of Migratory Seabirds

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Video screen showing a slide, So many sharks! It has five photos of different shark species.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Exploring the Sharks of the Galapagos Islands

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A large gray fish and smaller yellow fish swimming between corals in a coral reef

Webinar: Tracking Coral Health in the Caribbean Sea

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Montage of six images on a video screen: A bee on a flower; birds on a fence; a monarch butterfly; bird on a tree branch; moth on a flower; and an insect inside a flower.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Community Naturalists

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Leah Harper, marine biologist

Scientist Spotlight: Leah Harper, Marine Biologist

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Montage of five images on a video conference screen: A squirrel in a tree, two small birds on a lawn, a finger pointing at the ground, pink buds on a tree, and a violet.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Neighborhood Naturalists

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