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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems Collection: Bringing the Universe to America's Classroom Professional DocPbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems Collection: Bringing the Universe to America's Classroom Professional Doc
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems Collection: Bringing the Universe to America's Classroom

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Explore different landforms and bodies of water around the world, observe and map landforms and water features, and practice observation and analysis skills through a virtual landscape and animated adventure in Plum's Island Explorer. For a printable list of all 13 resources in this collection, see K-2 Earth's Systems Collection.

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bodies of water, landforms

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bringing the universe to america's classroom, earth's systems collection, grade level k-2, animated adventure in plum's island explorer, landforms and bodies of water around the world, observe and map landforms and water features, earth science

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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