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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Getting Connected

For Students 6th - 8th
Can you find the problem and fix the circuit in time for the Halloween contest?
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Innovation Exploration

For Students 6th - 8th
Advance your way through everyday life by exploring the science all around you. Click on an innovation within each scene and answer each question to proceed to the next.
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Unit Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Travel Through Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel through the decades to learn about the innovations that shape your life. Use the Decade Navigator below to start exploring. Transport yourself through the last 100 years to meet the innovations that have shaped our world.
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Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Water Jug Race

For Students 3rd - 8th
First one to empty the jug wins! And it's not as easy as it sounds...
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Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Triboluminescence

For Students 3rd - 8th
Detectable flashes of light are released as wintergreen-flavored candies are crushed in darkness.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Sandwich Bag Dart Board

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sharp Pencils and water-filled sandwich bags demonstrate the nature of certain polymers.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Salt Engineering

For Students 3rd - 8th
Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Charged Fingers

For Students 3rd - 6th
Do you have the magic touch? Watch as your finger mysteriously moves a pencil without touching it.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Pie Pan Accelerometer

For Students 3rd - 8th
A metal pie pan demonstrates the acceleration of gravity.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Gelatin Optic Fibers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Strips of gelatin dessert and a laser pointer demonstrate total internal reflection.
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Other

Quality Digest: Self Directed Work Teams: A Competitive Advantage

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Article describes self-directed work teams as an innovative way to approach employee management. Designed around "whole" projects, these teams manage their own work and handle obstacles themselves, fostering independent thinking and a...