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| About the Author | |
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| About the Library | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Key to Icons | |
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| Correlation with National Standards Grid | |
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| Listing of Activities by Topic | |
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| The Nature of Matter | |
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| To the Teacher | |
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| How Can You Make a Balance from Two Clothes Hangers? | |
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| How Can You Make a More Precise Balance from a Ruler? | |
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| What Is the Shape of a Drop of Water? | |
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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 Mixtures and Solutions? | |
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| How Can You Separate a Mixture of Salt and Pepper? | |
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| What Happens to Water When You Add Salt? | |
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| How Does a Hydrometer Work? | |
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| How Can the Depth of a Bathyscaph Be Controlled? | |
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| What Are Solids, Liquids, and Gases? | |
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| How Can You Produce a Gas from a Solid and a Liquid? | |
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| How Can You Make a Fire Extinguisher? | |
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| How Can a Blown-Out Candle Relight Itself? | |
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| How Can You Remove the Flame from a Candle Without Putting It Out? | |
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| How Can You Make a Ball Bounce by Itself? | |
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| What Is Polyethylene? | |
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| Is the Dissolving of Solids a Physical Change or a Chemical Change? | |
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| Is Burned Sugar Still Sugar? | |
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| What Is Rust? | |
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| How Can Chemical Changes Help You Write a Secret Message? | |
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| How Does Temperature Affect the Speed of Molecules? | |
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| How Does Temperature Affect Solubility? | |
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| How Can You Make Large Sugar Crystals from Tiny Ones? | |
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| What Does Litmus Paper Tell Us About Substances? | |
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| How Can Perfume Get into a Sealed Balloon? | |
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| How Can You Cause Molecules to Move Through Solids? | |
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| What Is Viscosity? | |
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| Nature of Matter Word Searches | |
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| Do You Recall? | |
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| Energy | |
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| In What Ways Is Energy Used in Our Neighborhood? | |
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| How Well Do You Conserve Energy at Home? | |
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| How Do Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy Compare? | |
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| How Is Work Measured? | |
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| How Can Wind Energy Be Used to Turn Something? | |
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| How Can the Energy of Sound Cause Something to Move? | |
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| How Can Magnetism Do Work? | |
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| How Much Energy Is Stored in a Bow? | |
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| How Can You Power a Racer with a Rubber Band? | |
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| How Does a Nail Change as It Is Driven into a Board? | |
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| How Do Molecules Behave When Heated? | |
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| What Happens to Solids as They Are Heated and Cooled? | |
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| What Happens to Liquids as They Are Heated and Cooled? | |
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| What Happens to Gases as They Are Heated and Cooled? | |
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| What Other Type of Energy Accompanies Light from the Sun? | |
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| How Can You Get the Most Heat Energy from the Sun? | |
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| How Does Color Affect Energy Absorbed from Light? | |
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| Where Does Our Energy Really Come From? | |
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| How Can You Cook an Apple in Your Own Solar Cooker? | |
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| How Does Gravity Affect Heavy and Light Objects? | |
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| What Is Center of Gravity? | |
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| Where Is Your Center of Gravity? | |
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| How Can You Balance Several Nails on One Nail? | |
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| What Happens When You Burn a Candle at Both Ends? | |
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| How Does Inertia Affect the Way Things Move? | |
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| What Is Centrifugal Force? | |
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| Energy Word Searches | |
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| Do You Recall? | |
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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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| Why Does Your Shadow Change in Size and Shape? | |
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| What Path Does Light Follow? | |
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| How Does Light Energy Trave | |