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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Harmless Holder
Design and construct an environmentally safe holder for a six-pack of cans that is sturdy and easy to carry.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Confetti Launcher
Show your creativity by designing and building a device that will launch confetti to your target!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Triangle Pop Up Card
Try this triangle pop-up greeting card! Amaze your friends with your talent and creativity!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Floating Box Pop Up Card
Make a cool greeting card with floating box pop-ups for a friend or make a bunch for invitations to a party!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Box Pop Up Card
Follow these instructions to make pop-up greeting cards for your friends.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Hovercraft
Make discs hover on the table and play air hockey or other games. Just gather materials including balloons, Cds or DVDs, straws, foam packing, and barbeque skewers and follow the directions.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Hack a Greeting Card
Transform an old musical greeting card into a surprise for your friend.
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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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Wisconsin Historical Society: A Handbook for Using Historical Documents [Pdf]
Teachers will find this a superb guide book for teaching students how to critically examine documents from the past. The guide contains lessons and resources for Wisconsin history but the teaching methodology can be adapted for anywhere.
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...