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Adopt a Pond Wetland Curriculum Resource

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Adopt-A-Pond Program was created by the Toronto Zoo for teachers looking for a guide to wetland issues and resources.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Protecting Our Planet Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn that they can make choices that can reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and...
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Pbs Teachers: Rising Ice Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe how ice and salt crystals interact by using salt to help adhere a string to the top of an ice cube in a glass of water, then lift the cube out of the water.
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Pbs Teachers: Floating Paper Clips Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore surface tension in water by making a paper clip float.
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Pbs Teachers: Paper Towel Chromatography Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe the separation of colors derived from black marker ink by wicking water through a marker line on a paper towel.
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Pbs Teachers: Make a Thermometer

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe how a change in temperature affects the volume of water in a bottle.
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Pbs Teachers: What's More Dense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Compare the density of water, corn oil and corn syrup by trying to float different items in each material and then putting all three liquids into one container.
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60 Second Science: Rolling Down Ramps Experiment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore the characteristics of inclined planes while observing how drops of colored water flow down a ramp and on different surfaces.
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Pbs Teachers: Rescue Mission, Design Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Design and build a hook that can be used to grab and lift canisters floating in water. Test the design and make revisions as needed.
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Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Black Is Black or Is It?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An experiment with a coffee filter and a marker to see what happens when water touches a black dot, or any other color. With links to several scientific, academic articles that explain what is happening.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train: Dino Dive

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An estimation activity where the student helps all the dinosaurs dive into the appropriate volume of water.
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BBC

Bb Ci Schools: Revisewise Science: Solids, Liquids, Gases

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site contains an interactive activity in which students can learn about the three states of matter. There is also a factsheet that lists numerous properties of liquids, solids, and gases. The factsheet also uses water as an example...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's the Matter: A Sinker or Floater?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will explore matter that sinks or floats when submerged in water and that matter is categorized as either a sinker or a floater. Students will work actively in small, cooperative learning groups as well as gather in a whole...
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K 3 Learning pages.com: Earth Day Links

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you celebrate Earth Day in your classroom? This collection features several downloadable Earth Day worksheets including word searches and coloring pages. Students and teachers can plan the perfect way to recognize the environment.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Pond Life Animal Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Filled with printable pages of both plant and animal pond life, Enchanted Learning features fact sheets with color pictures.
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Abc News: Talking to Kids About the Tsunami Tragedy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How can you begin to talk to your kids about the Tsunami tragedy? This site offers insight on how to deal with this difficult topic.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Ocean Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a multi-subject themed primary unit around the concept of oceans. Reading, Math, Science and Social Studies activities revolve around an ocean theme. In Part 5, students work on...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Bottle Fountain Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Demonstrate how heating expands air molecules by constructing a bottle fountain powered by air pressure.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Build a Model Dam

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover the unique engineering properties of a dam by contructing a model dam using popsicle sticks, pebbles and sand.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Weightlessness Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Demonstrate how water and a cup fall at the same rate of speed.

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