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| About the Science Curriculum Activities Library | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Listing of Activities by Topic and Subtopic | |
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| Earth Science Activities | |
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| Air | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| How Can You Test to See If Air Takes Up Space? | |
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| How Can You Pour Air? | |
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| How Can You Tell If Air Has Weight? | |
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| How Can You Feel the Weight and Pressure of Air? | |
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| What Is Another Way to Feel Air Pressure? | |
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| How Can Air Be Compressed? | |
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| What Is Another Way Air Can Be Compressed? | |
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| What Can a Card Teach You About Air? | |
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| How Can Air Pressure Make Things Stronger? | |
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| How Can Air Help Us Drink? | |
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| How Does Air Pressure Affect Water Flow? | |
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| What Is the Relationship Between Moving Air and Its Pressure? | |
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| What Happens When Air Is Heated? | |
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| How Can You Tell That Warm Air Rises? | |
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| What Happens When Air Gets Warmer? | |
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| How Can We Watch Air Expand and Contract? | |
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| How Does Cold Air Behave? | |
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| What Happens When Warm Air and Cold Air Mix? | |
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| How Can You Get Water Out of the Air? | |
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| Water | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| How Does Water Disappear? | |
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| What Is in Sea Water? | |
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| What Is Condensation? | |
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| How Can You Get Water Out of the Air? | |
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| What Is Another Way to Get Moisture Out of the Air? | |
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| How Can a Water Drop Make Things Larger? | |
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| How Can Water Make a Coin Appear? | |
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| What Happens When Water Changes to a Solid? | |
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| How Can You Make a Worm? | |
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| Weather | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| What Does a Wind Vane Do, and How Can You Make One? | |
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| What Is Another Design for a Wind Vane? | |
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| How Can You Use a Wind Vane? | |
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| The Earth | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| In What Order Do Materials Settle in Water? | |
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| How Are Rocks Classified? | |
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| How Do Crystals Form? | |
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| Life Science Activities | |
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| Plants and Seeds | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| What Plant Is This? | |
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| How Do Seeds Begin to Grow? | |
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| How Can We Watch Seeds Grow? | |
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| How Do Seeds Travel? | |
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| How Can Plants Grow Without Seeds? | |
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| What Is Another Way to Grow Plants Without Seeds? | |
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| What Can You Do with Plants That Become Too Big for Their Containers? | |
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| How Do Containers Make Plants More Interesting? | |
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| What Do Plants Need in Order to Grow? | |
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| How Does Water Travel in a Plant? | |
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| What Are the Parts of Some Common Plants? | |
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| What Parts of Plants Do You Like to Eat? | |
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| Animals | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| Who Are the New Members of Our Class? | |
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| How Can You Keep Your Pets Healthy? | |
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| How Many Pets Can You Find? | |
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| How Many Other Pets Can You Find? | |
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| What Kind of Pet Would You Like to Own? | |
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| What Can Hair Tell You? | |
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| How Many Play Animals Can You Find? | |
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| How Can You Make a New Animal for a Funny Zoo? | |
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| How Can You Make a Bony Animal? | |
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| What Can Footprints Tell Us? | |
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| What More Can Footprints Tell Us? | |
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| What Animals Live Around You? | |
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| How Can We Attract Wild Birds? | |
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| What Is a Bird? | |
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| How Do Earthworms Live? | |
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| Why Is the Snail So Unusual? | |
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| Growing and Changing: Animal Life Cycles | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| What Is Growing Up? | |
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| How Much Do People Change? | |
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| How Does Growing Up Begin? | |
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| What Is a Chicken Egg Really Like? | |
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| What Are Some Other Animals That Hatch from Eggs? | |
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| How Can You Hatch Eggs in the Classroom? | |
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| What Is a Tadpole? | |
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| What Is a Good Environment for Tadpoles? | |
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| Animal Adaptations | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| Why Are Feathers Special? | |
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| What Purposes Can Feathers Serve? | |
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| Can You Make a Feather? | |
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| How Is Color Used by Living Things? | |
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| Body Systems | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| How Big Is the Average Person Your Age? | |
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| What Does Hair Look Like Under a Microscope? | |
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| The Five Senses | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| In What Ways Do We Depend on Our Eyes? | |
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| How Do Our Eyes Help Us "Hear"? | |
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| How Does a Picture Stimulate Your Senses? | |
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| Can You Save the Fish? | |
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| How Well Can You See in the Dark? | |
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| How Can You Match Things Without Seeing Them? | |
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| What Sounds Do Your Ears Recognize? | |
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| How Well Can You "Observe" with Your Sense of Touch? | |
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| How Much Can You "See" with Your Hands? | |
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| Health and Nutrition | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| Why Do We Wash Our Hands Before Handling Food? | |
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| Physical Science Activities | |
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| Nature of Matter | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| What Happens to Water When You Add Salt? | |
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| How Dry Can You Wring a Wet Sponge? | |
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| What Is Condensation? | |
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| What Are Solids, Liquids, and Gases? | |
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| How Can You Make Large Sugar Crystals from Tiny Ones? | |
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| Energy | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| How Well Do You Conserve Energy at Home? | |
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| Light | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| What Can You Make with a Shadow? | |
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| How Does Closeness to Light Affect Shadow Size? | |
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| How Does Your Shadow Change? | |
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| What Path Does Light Follow? | |
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| How Can You Make a Lens from a Drop of Water? | |
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| What Do Color Filters Do to Colors? | |
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| What Does a Prism Do to Light? | |
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| How Can You Make a Prism with Water? | |
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| Sound | |
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| What Is Sound? | |
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| What Sounds Can You Identify? | |
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| How Well Can You Match Sounds? | |
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| What Sounds Can You Make with a Shoe Box? | |
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| How Can You Make Music with a Fish Line? | |
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| How Much Noise Can You Make with a Paper Cup? | |
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| What Kinds of Sounds Can You Make with Sticks? | |
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| How Can You See Sound? | |
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| Simple Machines | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| What Happens When You Rub Your Hands Together? | |
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| How Do Lubricants Affect Friction? | |
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| What Is the Advantage of a First-Class Lever? | |
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| What Type of Simple Machine Is the Teeter-Totter? | |
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| How Can a Lever Be Used to Lift Heavy Things? | |
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| Magnetism | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| Which Rock Is Different? | |
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| What Do Magnets Look Like? | |
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| What Materials Will a Magnet Pick Up? | |
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| Which Magnet Is the Strongest? | |
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| What Part of a Magnet Has the Strongest Pull? | |
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| Static Electricity | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| Why Does Paper Leap for a Balloon? | |
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| Biblography | |
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| Selected Sources of Free and Inexpensive Materials for Elementary Science | |
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| Selected Science Supply Houses | |
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| Selected Suppliers of Vided Tapes, Videodiscs, and Cd-Rom for Elementary Science | |
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| Selected Suppliers of Computer Software for Elementary Science | |