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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Glow Sticks
Test your electrical skills! Can you make a working glow stick with a nine-volt battery and a strand of lights?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Air Cannon
Make your air cannon using simple items like a paper cup, a plastic bag, and pom poms; then see how far you can shoot the pom poms.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Treasure Grab
Grab all the treasure you can and test your driving skills with your Treasure Grabber made with string, paper clips, and a straw.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: String Puppet
Make your own puppets that move, bend, and twist at your command simply using straws and fishing string.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 4 Wheel Balloon Car
Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Marshmallow Blaster
Shoot marshmallows across the room with your own Marshmallow Blaster.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Unpoppable Balloon
Can you run a stick through a balloon without popping it? See if you can make this un-poppable ballon?
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Edgar's Easter Eggs
Read the Easter egg story about sharing and then play all the games. Follow directions to decorate eggs, find the hidden eggs, match the egg with the bird, and more.
PE Central
Pe Central: Ditto a Cooperative Game
In groups, young scholars not only design and build something using equipment set for them but also write a detailed description of the item they have created so that others can follow their lead. This activity requires students to be...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Procedural Texts and Signs
Practice your skill at following written directions in a procedural text recognizing common signs. Play in game mode or test mode.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Animal Count
Help count the animals on the Island of Meddybemps. Make sure you follow the directions on the first page.
Other
Ask Asia: Origami Lesson Making a Paper Rabbit
Follow these simple directions and pictures to make your own origami rabbit. Includes a little bit about the history of origami.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Fuzz Bugs Counting, Sorting, & Comparing
Fuzz Bugs is fun activity for Pre-K and Kindergarten children to practice counting, sorting, and comparing. Kids will interact with funny little Fuzz Bugs to complete several tasks that include: categorizing by color, counting to ten,...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nandi and Other Kalenjin Peoples Kinship
Nandi; about one-third of all Kalenjin and second-largest of the Kalenjin subgroups, they are geographically the most centrally located. The Kalenjin live mainly in the highland of western Kenya, although the Sebei and some Pokot are...
British Council
Learn English Kids: Story Maker
This site is a story maker; students choose from three types of stories: fairy tale, horror story, or science fiction. They follow the directions choosing from pictures and typing in words. Then the complete story is finished and they...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Olympics 2004 Treasure Hunt
This instructional activity is centered around an Olympics 2004 Treasure Hunt designed to give learners an opportunity to learn about the history of the Olympic games and to generate interest in the modern Olympic games. Students are...
US National Archives
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library: History of Hoover Ball
Herbert Hoover had a creative way to stay fit while president - Hoover-Ball. All that was needed was a medicine ball and net. Hoover played rain or shine every day except Sundays. Read the following history of the game and directions....
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Synonyms and Antonyms
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart follows the Learning Focused format. It begins with an exciting Bingo-style interactive activator, then moves to teacher-directed instruction, guided practice, interactive games,...