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Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Wind Energy Virtual Lab

For Students 5th - 9th
Design, build, and test an energy efficient wind turbine that will supply 400 homes with electricity for one year.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Project Steps

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and print out steps that will help you with your science fair project, from topic forming and researching to analyzing and drawing conclusions..
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Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Inventions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Great ideas to get students started on an invention for a science fair. A list of ways students will design and engineer a solution to a problem will help students begin choosing a topic. Check out the list of general science topics,...
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Discovery Education: Pollination Parties

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This activity helps young scholars understand the concept of pollination. Objectives, materials, procedures, adaptations, discussion questions, evaluation, extensions, suggested readings, links, vocabulary, and academic standards are all...
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Animal Planet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about animals and so much more can be found on the Animal Planet site. Live forums, pet guides, zoo animals, games, videos are to name just a few of the avenues of information contained here.
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Discovery Education: Dictator for a Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A lesson plan challenging students to identify the pros and cons of dictatorship and applying those to understand what life was like in Ancient Rome. Find adaptations for younger students, discussion questions, assessment, enrichment, as...
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Discovery Education: Korean War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Korean War is discussed in full in the course of the site. It discusses the causes of the war, air and naval activity, the land war, and more.
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Discovery Education: Brain Boosters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discovery School offers a terrific "categorized archive of challenging Brain Boosters." Choose from hundreds of engaging activities pertaining to Categorization, Lateral Thinking, Reasoning, Logic, Word and Letter Play, Spatial...
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Discovery Education: Comparing Athens and Sparta

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce the ideas of limited and unlimited government with a lesson on the government styles in Ancient Greece. Middle schoolers will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta to understand the two very different governments that each...
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Discovery Education: Understanding Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity will open students' eyes to hurtful stereotypes by making them examine their beliefs. This is a three-day instructional activity that includes whole class and small group activities, critical thinking...
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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: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Too Hot to Handle

For Students 6th - 8th
Can you design a handle for Hot Stuff's new skillet?
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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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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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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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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: 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: 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: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Disappearing Glass

For Students 9th - 10th
Glass objects seem to disappear when placed in cooking oil.
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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: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Two Stage Ballon Rocket

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build a multistage rocket from two balloons.
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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: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Gelatin Optic Fibers

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