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ABCya

Ab Cya: Typing Rocket

For Students 2nd - 5th
Typing Rocket is a fun keyboarding game for kids of all ages! Players have 60 seconds to type the letters on the rockets. The score is calculated by hits minus misses. Keyboarding practice has never been so fun!
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Two Stage Ballon Rocket

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build a multistage rocket from two balloons.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Pop a Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to make a rocket powered by the formation of gasses. It demonstrates the importance of pressure in other explosive things like rocket engines and volcanoes.
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NASA

Nasa Glenn Research Center: Rocket Car (Class Activity)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students discover Newton's Third Law of Motion by constructing a rocket car.
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Other

Port Discovery Children's Museum: How to Diy: Rocket Building at Home!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Instructions for building a rocket at home using basic materials then try a fun experiment to watch your rocket blast off.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Pop a Rocket

For Students K - 1st
Try this at-home science experiment to learn how to make a two-part rocket fuel system that safely explodes.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: Build a Film Canister Rocket

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science Bob uses magnets, film canisters and Alka-Seltzer tablets to demonstrate how to build film canister rockets.
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NASA

Beginners Guide to Model Rockets

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides numerous links that will give teachers and students an overview of rocketry.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists: Von Braun's Rockets

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and accomplishments of Wernher Von Braun and other Nazi space scientists through this interactive timeline. Discover how he came to the United States in Operation Paperclip and why he is known as the father of the...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: "Seven Strategies to Teach Text Comprehension" by c.r. Adler

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this article, "comprehension strategies" are explained. Supported by research, these strategies are divided into seven different steps, including the following: monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers,...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: National Poetry Month

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers extensive resources for teaching poetry. Find interviews with poets, ideas for poetry lessons, book lists, and ways to use poetry across the curriculum. There are also resources specifically for National Poetry Month....
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Other

U.s. Space and Rocket Center: Space Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Join the fun at the Alabama space camp everyone is talking about. Watch behind-the-scenes clips, learn about the program offerings, and register for a week of space adventures. Link to the different levels of camps including Space Camp...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach reading comprehension.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. To learn more about fluency, browse the articles,...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Informal Assessment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Administering informal assessments on a regular basis throughout the school year provides useful information that can help teachers to identify the individual strengths and weaknesses of each student and guide the next steps in...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of individual speech sounds, or phonemes. A child's skill in phonemic awareness is a good...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Stem Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents (In Multiple Languages)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Suggestions of ways for parents to read, write, and tell stories together with children from infancy to third grade. Available in multiple languages.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Expert Interviews

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn from nationally known researchers and experts in literacy and early education. Topics include phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, writing, summer learning, early childhood education, dyslexia, and more.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach children to write.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach spelling.

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