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Make a Weather Wall - 1 views

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      Student who are ready can learn to read a thermometer or a barometer as well as a part of this activity.  Make sure to encourage careful record keeping and not accurate predictions.  Students should be made aware that one does not "win" science by making correct predictions.
  • Weather symbol template
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    Students can try their hands at observing, recording, and predicting the weather.
William Templeton

Turn Salt Water into Drinking Water - 1 views

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      This experiment can lead nicely into a social studies unit about the importance of water to human communities.  It could also be used as a starting point for a discussion of how scarcity affects price.
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    Students learn how to separate salt from water in order to create drinking water from salt water.
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Build a Balloon Powered Car | Education.com - 1 views

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      While this activity does not cover a specific standard it does meet the requirement of teaching the design process.  Make sure that students must design, test, and revise their design to make the activity authentic.  A race would be a great final activity.  Assessment could come from an oral presentation on what they did and why or a visual presentation, such as a poster.
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      SC.2.3.7 2000Investigate and observe that the way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull.
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    By focusing on the design aspect of this activity a budding scientist can learn a lot about solving a problem through the scientific design process.
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    Great for deciephering where energy comes from. The design process gives the student a full understanding of how the vehicle works and why it moves.
William Templeton

Explore Blood Science! - 1 views

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      Students who finish early could try drawing the structures of blood.  If the teacher can obtain the materials, looking through a microscope at real slides of blood and draw that for a further extension.
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    This activity lets students create a simple and safe model of human blood.  It provides a way to make something microscopic easier for children to understand.
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