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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Glow Sticks
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
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
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: Balloon Joust
Prepare your balloons, using barbeque skewers and straws, for a balloon joust with your friends.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Air Cannon
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shoot marshmallows across the room with your own Marshmallow Blaster.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel
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
Can you run a stick through a balloon without popping it? See if you can make this un-poppable ballon?
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Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum
Dr. Nunley presents her "Layered Curriculum" approach to teaching. This program focuses on increasing levels of complexity.
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Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to Story of Ferdinand [Pdf]
The Story of Ferdinand by Robert Lawson is about the misconceptions people have when they jump to conclusions. After exploring the story, students will discuss situations in real life. Blackline masters and a rubric are included.
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The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to the Gardener [Pdf]
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart won the Caldecott Honor in 1998. It centres around a set of letters about a young girl who moved from the countryside to the city. In the lessons in this teaching guide, students must make inferences from...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
Contains plans for three lessons that teach young scholars to examine junk mail critically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Museum Curator
As part of the larger unit, America's History in the Making, from Annenberg Learner, this interactive allows students to be curators of their own mini-museum by choosing artifacts that fit a topic of their choice under the general theme...
Virtual Salt
Virtual Salt: Introduction to Critical Thinking
An introduction to the concept of Critical Thinking examines the true definition and gives examples where it can be used as a constructive force.
Education Development Center
Center for Children and Technology: No Way: Electricity
Moving away from the fantasy worlds of video games, No Way draws learners into a compelling real-life scenario in which they are editorial interns at a science-themed website. This classroom activity on electricity offers a fun way for...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Creativity Tools: Develop Creative Solutions to Business Problems
20 techniques for solving problems in creative ways. Fantastic tool for teachers and leaders.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What to Bring?
In this activity, students are provided with a list of supplies that survived their plane's crash in the Amazon jungle. They will organize the supplies to classify which items are useful for surviving in the Amazon. Students will use...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Got It
Sharpen your logical thinking and see if you can figure out the strategy to get to the target number before the computer.