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Kaboom!
Students identify the three ingredients of weather.. They create weather vanes, thermometers, and rain gauges.
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Irresistible Irregular Verbs
Four fun games for practicing irregular verbs? How fabulous!
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Factors with Sound Effects
In this multiplication worksheet, students will determine and then identify the factors of a given number and mark them in a column of the grid. Each factor has a sound effect that the students will then repeat.
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Thunder and Lightning
In this earth science activity, students read and study about the formation of lightning and thunder using online resources. They complete 8 short answer questions that follow.
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Kaboom: Creative Expression
Creative expression helps children articulate their feelings and thoughts. Encouraging creative expression is easy in both indoor and outdoor play spaces. This article discusses how art, music, and dance can encourage creative expression.
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Pbs: Kaboom!
Ever wonder how a firework is made? Or what made that one blue, and that one sparkle? What about seeing a building implode? Check out this Nova site about fireworks and explosives!
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Photo Kaboom
Lots of links for photography teachers. Learn new things, buy software, get handouts and more, more, more.
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Pbs Teachers: Nova: Kaboom! Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental
Describe The Periodic Table of Elements, identify the elements that make a firework work and examine the contribution of each element to the total fireworks effect.
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Pbs Learning Media: Demolition Woman
Find out how controlled explosions are used to demolish multi-story buildings in this interview from the NOVA: "Kaboom!" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental
In this interactive periodic table from the NOVA Web site, find out the role of various elements in making fireworks.