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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Think Fast!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Are you a piano player or a video gamer? Then you might have a quick reaction time that can come in handy while playing sports. Find out how to measure your reaction time and compare it to your friends and family with this fun experiment.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Teaching Fluency Using Reader's Theater

For Teachers 3rd
This lesson engages students in fluency stories related to Dr. Seuss' stories. Students will engage in reading these texts with meaningful phrases, intonation, and expression. The Sneetches, Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, What Was I...
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Missouri

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a colorful display of information about Missouri. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Nebraska

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a colorful display of information about Nebraska. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Wyoming

For Students 3rd - 5th
A colorful display of information about Wyoming. Contains a map, pictures, a state symbols list, and links to related information.
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Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Stars

For Students 3rd - 8th
Many of the objects you can see in the night sky are stars, large objects in space that produce light. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains more than 100 billion stars. Stars are so far away that their light does not reach us for years....
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Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Skates and Rays

For Students 3rd - 8th
There are more than five hundred different species of skates and rays in our oceans. Scientists say that these fish are closely related to sharks, sharing a common ancestor from around 400 million years ago. This article provides an...
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Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Chocolate

For Students 3rd - 8th
Chocolate begins as a seed of the tropical cacao tree. It has been a prized taste sensation for more than 2,500 years. One reason chocolate is so nice to eat is that it melts just below body temperature. So it really does melt in your...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Sun or Shade?

For Teachers 3rd
Use a thermometer to measure the air temperature in several places around the school.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 1 Push and Pull

For Teachers 3rd
Understand the effect of the forces of push and pull on motion.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: May the Best Force Win

For Teachers 3rd
The greater the force applied to an object, the greater the change in speed or direction of the object.
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Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape: Soiled Again

For Students 3rd - 5th
Help Detective Le Plant dig for clues in the soil to solve this case. You'll need to find out what soil is, why it is important, and in what kinds of soil plants grow.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Third Grade Writing Lesson #2 / Science Prompt

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines and write about it.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Columbian Exchange

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Americas with Columbus and introduced European, African, and Asian plants and...
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Website
Other

The Happy Scientist: What Is a Food Web?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A food web is a way of seeing how energy is transferred from organism to organism. All living things need energy. They use it to move, to grow, to reproduce. That energy has to come from someplace. Drawing a food web is a great way to...
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Activity
Other

Port Discovery Children's Museum: Stem at Home: How to Diy Cloud in a Bottle

For Students 1st - 8th
Do you ever wonder what happens when a cloud gets too full? Find out in this easy and fun experiment.
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Soda Straw Weaving

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using plastic straws and yarn, young children can weave a bracelet or bookmark. Website includes detailed instruction on how to weave using soda straws and images showing the various steps.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Bubbularium

For Students 3rd - 8th
What colors do you see in a bubble? Why do you see colors in a bubble? Use this site to find out the answer to these questions with this easy experiment.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Outrageous Ooze

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students can make ooze and learn about different qualifications of matter. An easy procedure is provided to make gooey ooze that you can play with when you are done.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Salt Volcano

For Students 3rd - 8th
By making oil float on water--with the help of other ingredients--students can create a lava-lite effect.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Hoopster

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students create their own airplane using straws and other materials and learn the principles of aerodynamics.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Roto Copter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students can experiment with a home-made helicopter that lets them change the blades to see how real aerodynamics work.
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Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: Everyday Mysteries: Why Do Bats Live in Caves?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Ever wonder why bats live in caves? Or why bats don't fly into objects at night? This article describe why bats thrive in the protected shelter a cave provides. It also explains how bats use echolocation to locate food and avoid obstacles.
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Interactive
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Pardon or Pillory

For Students 1st - 5th
Guess the letters in the words to save the colonist from the pillory. This play on hangman reviews historical vocabulary.