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Pbs Kids: Conduction Countdown
PBS offers an experiment that kids can do at home to learn more about heat conduction and how it works.
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Fingerprinting
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about fingerprinting! Provides links to a brief history of fingerprinting, FBI Kids site, a lesson in classification, fingerprinting identification and a game.
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In Quiry Almanack: Touching
Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.
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Alphabet soup.net: Farm Animals
Check out this awesome resource on farm animals. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found within this site. Learn what sound each of the farm animals make and more.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pumpkins
During this instructional activity students will be involved in hands-on discovery activities using pumpkins and pumpkin seeds. They will compare the size and weight of their pumpkins. They will also have an opportunity to taste pumpkin...
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Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Do It: Balloon Hovercraft
PBS site allows you to discover how air pressure works as you learn how to build your own hovercraft.
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Pbs Kids: Colored Water Convection
This PBS site allows users to learn more about water convection as they discover how to demonstrate the way convection currents form. A fun science project!
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Pbs: Rough Science: Island Power Plant
Learn how to create electricity and your own electrical gadgets! Site provides users with information on how to make a battery, flashlight, buzzer an electric motor.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Math Is Functional
This lesson is a technology-based activity in which students extend graphing of linear functions to the use of spreadsheet software. After students have become proficient in constructing a table of values, students are able to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Factoring Fanatic
This activity is designed to give students practice in "finding" the correct factors to use when attempting to factor a trinomial. The students are provided with a Tic-Tac sheet to help them discover the relationship or pattern between...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images
This hands-on lesson uses exploration and discovery to help young scholars determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase will access...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Human Slope
Students will participate in this discovery activity intended for them to uncover the role each variable plays in the graph of a line in the form y = mx + b. Students will actually demonstrate lines in slope intercept form on a life size...
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Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Famous Scientists
Students learn about scientific discoveries and contributions made by significant men and women in history, where and when they were born and died.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Effects of Density and Volume of a Cartesian Diver
In this lesson, students will investigate why the Cartesian diver dives and rises in a 2 liter bottle. They will also, through their own discovery, come up with a question and then change one variable and record their results. Students...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Birds in Flight, What a Sight!
This lesson has been designed to show students the unique structure that birds possess--feathers--and how they maneuver them in flight.
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Next: Air Quality
Learn why clean air is necessary to a healthy life by completing these five activities.
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Next: Bicycles
Learn how riding a bicycle helps the environment and your health by completing these four activities. Explore further by clicking on one of the numerous links provided.
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Next: Bridges
Complete these three activities to learn about the six main types of bridges and their uses. Includes links to explore related material.
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Next: Coral Reefs
Learn about the plants, animals and sea life that inhabit coral reefs by completing the five activities. Explore reefs further by clicking on one of the numerous links provided.
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Next: Germs
Engage in the activities provided to learn what you can do to protect your body from harmful germs. Click on the links for further exploration.
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Next: Oceans
Learn about the importance of oceans and their connection to weather by completing the five activities. Explore further by clicking on one of the numerous links provided.
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Next: Prairie
Complete these three activities to learn about prairies and where they are located. Includes links to explore related material.
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Next: Rain
This activity provides an opportunity to learn about water vapor and its role in rain.