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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Glow Sticks

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your electrical skills! Can you make a working glow stick with a nine-volt battery and a strand of lights?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Build a Better Lunchbox

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow the directions to build a lunchbox that will keep a frozen treat from melting.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots

For Students 6th - 8th
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Air Cannon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your air cannon using simple items like a paper cup, a plastic bag, and pom poms; then see how far you can shoot the pom poms.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Treasure Grab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Grab all the treasure you can and test your driving skills with your Treasure Grabber made with string, paper clips, and a straw.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Indoor Slingshot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: String Puppet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your own puppets that move, bend, and twist at your command simply using straws and fishing string.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 4 Wheel Balloon Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 2 Wheel Balloon Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your own 2-wheel, air-power cars and race them or play games with them. Balloons and straws are them main components.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Marshmallow Blaster

For Students K - 1st
Shoot marshmallows across the room with your own Marshmallow Blaster.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel

For Students K - 1st
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Unpoppable Balloon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you run a stick through a balloon without popping it? See if you can make this un-poppable ballon?
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Pbs Kids: Odd Squad: Games: Down the Tubes

For Students K - 1st
The Odd Squad tube system is broken, but you can help to fix it by measuring the missing sections and fitting in the correct lengths of tubes.
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Interactive
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Pbs Kids: Curious George's Busy Day: Museum of Tens Game

For Students K - 1st
Each display in the museum has 10 items in it, but some are missing. How many do you need to add to make 10? Can you do the math?
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Success Link: Flying Into Spring

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Here are two lesson plans that apply geometric concepts to design objects. The first involves students as a group following step by step instructions on making a kite. After the review of geometry vocabulary, in cooperative groups the...
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Interactive
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Paint Splat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young players will enjoy this cleverly animated color-mixing game that guides them through the process of mixing and matching colors. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English...
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Interactive
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Sounds Like Fun!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cleverly animated game that alerts young learners to the musical sounds all around them in their everyday environments. A useful exercise in helping children understand sound patterns and repetitive beats and the meaning of start and...
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Where's Quack?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Hide-and-seek game instructs players to find Quack, a purple duck, in a series of different landscapes. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English language learners who need...
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Interactive
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Animal House Hunt

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cleverly animated matching game asks players to match animals to their homes. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for young children and English language learners who need practice in...
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Fish Wish [Count 1, 2, or 2 Fish]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Players click buttons to tell how many fish they see: 1, 2, or 3. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English language learners who need practice in listening to and understanding...
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Bbc: Skillswise: Instructions

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this helpful Skillswise English resource and get some hints on how better to follow instructions. Includes games, videos, worksheets, and more.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Trash Stash

For Students K - 1st Standards
Cleverly animated sorting game introduces young learners to the mathematical concepts of comparing, sorting, and grouping. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English language...