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Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Wind Energy Virtual Lab
Design, build, and test an energy efficient wind turbine that will supply 400 homes with electricity for one year.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Project Steps
Read and print out steps that will help you with your science fair project, from topic forming and researching to analyzing and drawing conclusions..
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Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Inventions
Great ideas to get students started on an invention for a science fair. A list of ways students will design and engineer a solution to a problem will help students begin choosing a topic. Check out the list of general science topics,...
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Discovery Education: Korean War
The Korean War is discussed in full in the course of the site. It discusses the causes of the war, air and naval activity, the land war, and more.
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Discovery Education: Brain Boosters
Discovery School offers a terrific "categorized archive of challenging Brain Boosters." Choose from hundreds of engaging activities pertaining to Categorization, Lateral Thinking, Reasoning, Logic, Word and Letter Play, Spatial...
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Too Hot to Handle
Can you design a handle for Hot Stuff's new skillet?
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Innovation Exploration
Advance your way through everyday life by exploring the science all around you. Click on an innovation within each scene and answer each question to proceed to the next.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Travel Through Time
Travel through the decades to learn about the innovations that shape your life. Use the Decade Navigator below to start exploring. Transport yourself through the last 100 years to meet the innovations that have shaped our world.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Water Jug Race
First one to empty the jug wins! And it's not as easy as it sounds...
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Triboluminescence
Detectable flashes of light are released as wintergreen-flavored candies are crushed in darkness.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Sandwich Bag Dart Board
Sharp Pencils and water-filled sandwich bags demonstrate the nature of certain polymers.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Salt Engineering
Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Two Stage Ballon Rocket
Build a multistage rocket from two balloons.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Pie Pan Accelerometer
A metal pie pan demonstrates the acceleration of gravity.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Gelatin Optic Fibers
Strips of gelatin dessert and a laser pointer demonstrate total internal reflection.
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Discovery Education: World History Lesson Plans
These lesson plans deal with world history. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Discovery Education: Planet Ocean: Blue Whale
This webpage provides a nice description of the Blue Whale along with several photos.
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Discovery Education: Discovering Science at Home
Parents are the primary teachers! But how do you teach Science at home? Create your own science center. Here are some great ideas to get started.
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Discovery Education: I Know That: Comparing Fractions
Fishy Fractions is an arcade-style mathematics game that has students find the fraction that is either greater than or less than a given fraction. In each round of the game, players answer problems by helping Ulani the pelican catch fish.
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Discovery Education: Sight and Light
A two-day lesson plan for young scholars to learn about the anatomy of the eye and the nature of vision. Includes a variety of supplemental resources for teachers.
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Discovery Education: The Great Gatsby
Very detailed lesson plans for teaching the novel. Includes audio links for the pronunciation of vocabulary words, discussion questions, and classroom activities.
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Discovery Education: The Amazing Octopus
This lesson plan explores how some animals have the ability to change their body color to blend in with their environments, and how this ability protects them from predators by making them practically invisible.
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Discovery Education: Birds
This lesson plan explores the evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs, as well as how we can make judgments about such issues based on scientific research.