The Wheels & Axles module empowers students to add the wonder of motion to their structures. Once they've created their simple moving machines, students can explore authentic STEM concepts as they measure distance and speed or experiment with the impacts of variable incline or decline degrees. It's a great way to integrate the skills and concepts of math, science, engineering and design thinking.
Get Ready to Discover the Exciting World of Science – Seatbelts, Everyone! Based on the popular book series, these fun and exciting kits are sure to engage children of all ages! Ms. Frizzle and her class take students on a wild ride into the spectacular world of science. Each kit comes with a colorful manual and provides challenging and exciting hands-on experiments. A Journey into the Human Body. Bend bones, make joints, map taste buds, expand lungs, build a stethoscope, measure lung capacities and heart rates, perform the iodine starch test, spin glitter, simulate synovial fluid, create a human body poster, and more!
The Human Body for grades 5 to 8 is designed to aid in the review and practice of life science topics specific to the human body. The Human Body covers topics such as all of the body systems, genetics, and healthful living. The book includes realistic diagrams and engaging activities to support practice about all areas of the human body.
The 100+ Series science books span grades 5 to 12. The activities in each book reinforce essential science skill practice in the areas of life science, physical science, and earth science. The books include engaging, grade-appropriate activities and clear thumbnail answer keys. Each book has 128 pages and 100 pages (or more) of reproducible content to help students review and reinforce essential skills in individual science topics. The series is aligned to current science standards.
The three main experiences in this kit include amazing your friends as your pet “Genie” holds onto a rope in a root beer bottle and then lets it go again. Use the Pendulum experience to demonstrate the sympathetic nature of motion of two pendulums as your friends think you have developed telekinetic powers. The final main experience shows the power of surface tension to hold water in an upside down bottle—even when you insert toothpicks into the bottle. Six more experiences enhance these principles
Uncover the amazing and clever ways in which every part of a plant is designed to do a specific job. Stunning photographs show plants readers will be familiar with plus spectacular and unusual examples from around the world. Includes two experiments or activities in each book. Set of 5 books, 32 pages each.
This award-winning series is a great way to add fun, depth, and critical thinking to science instruction on a variety of topics. Students will learn about the scientific method, tools, inventions, and how technology becomes part of our lives. Each book includes a wide range of experiments, projects, activities, and even a science fair project. Possible careers along with the required skills and education are also presented. 32 pages.
Get Ready to Discover the Exciting World of Science – Seatbelts, Everyone! Based on the popular book series, these fun and exciting kits are sure to engage children of all ages! Ms. Frizzle and her class take students on a wild ride into the spectacular world of science. Each kit comes with a colorful manual and provides challenging and exciting hands-on experiments. The World of Germs. Grow bacteria and fungi, test antibiotics, make a fungus bubble, explore antibiotics, grow mold, wake up fungi, cultivate bacteria in yogurt, use yeast to inflate a balloon, and more!
More than 20 amazing activities in one small bag! Play with touchable bubbles–they don't pop! Learn how plastic molding works by making your own super bouncing ball. Make up to 20 feet of slimy, gooey Insta-Worms™. Write secret messages with disappearing ink. Ages 8 and up.
The deadliest animal in Africa isn't the lion or the crocodile — it's the hippopotamus! Hippos have razor-sharp tusks, weigh as much as fifty men, and can run twenty-five miles per hour. Follow these hefty hulks as they glide underwater, play tug-of-war, swat balls of dung at one another, and nuzzle their young in the mud. Just don't get too close — they could chomp you in two!
“With gorgeous mixed-media illustrations and accessible, engaging language, this picture book will spur interest in the world of hippos.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
Part of the EXPLORE WITH ME GEOLOGY® series, the Oceanic Fossil Collection includes different species of shark teeth, fish vertebra, stingray mouth plates, and other marine fossils. A brief description of three marine fossil types included. Discovered in the Phosphate mines in Morocco, these fossils are believed to be from the late cretaceous age: approximately 60 million years old.
Build an electromagnet, electrical catapult, doorbell, telegraph and more! Includes neodymium and ceramic magnets, LED, switch plates and battery holders, iron filings, compass, wood blocks, hardware, other supplies and detailed activity guide.