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Working individually, students choose a combination of the attributes of three of the five main classes of vertebrates and use the materials in this kit to design and construct their own vertebrates.

Pecking at foam packing peanuts with spoons, golf tees, and clothes pins, students simulate the effects of different beak characteristics on birds’ attempts to gather food.

Illustrate Electrostatic Propulsion and Repulsion

The discovery of synthetic polymers (long chains of carbon) led to the development of thousands of useful products such as nylon and polystyrene.

Weave a Food Web for Understanding

Keep Students’ Interest in the Water Cycle from Evaporating

Demonstrate How Earth’s Motions Affect Seasons, Climate, and Visible Constellations.

The Whole Class Can Each Build a Rocket

Explain several concepts with a single activity.

Introduce the concept of a simple electric circuit and show that a wire can carry electricity and how a switch can start and stop the current flow.

Full Class Exploration of Ecosystems

This set of blocks, developed by Jodye Selco, is an excellent complementary set to Density Blocks I.

Fun experiment to illustrate motion and dynamics.

From introductory level to advanced study, this kit provides engaging lessons on insect classification and arthropod characteristics.

Isaac Newton could never have imagined that upper elementary and middle school students could explore his mathematically derived laws of motion using straws, compact discs, wooden spools, and balloons.

How does a sand filter trap particulate matter?