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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Inspector Detector

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge requires you to design and build a device that can pass above a surface and detect magnetic fields.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Headphone Helper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Blimp Jet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a blimp that hovers, and then modify it to use balloon power to travel in a straight path across the room? Try it!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Sky Floater

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you make a balloon hover in one spot and move without you touching it when you create air currents? Give it a try!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Roving on the Moon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your challenge is to design and build a rubber band-powered car that can crawl across the floor like a moon rover travels across the moon. Are you up to the challenge?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kick Stick

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a battery-operated, spinning motor-powered arm that can move ping pong balls across the room? Take the challenge!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kicking Machine

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this challenge, you will build a machine that can send a ball (golf or ping pong) at least 12 inches.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Dance Pad Mania

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to build a dance pad that sounds a buzzer or flashes a light when you dance on it.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Build an Instrument

For Students K - 1st
This challenge is to build a four-stringed musical instrument that can play a tune on different pitches.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Touchdown

For Students 3rd - 8th
It's your job to design, build, and test a landing module that will provide a safe touchdown for your astronauts (marshmallows). Can you do it?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Rubber Band Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this challenge to design and build a rubber band-powered car and watch it go.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Arm

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you design and build a robotic arm that can lift a cup off the table? Check this out and see!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Harmless Holder

For Students 3rd - 8th
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
Show your creativity by designing and building a device that will launch confetti to your target!
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Prisoner Boxes Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your favorite band is great at playing music but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instrucments on tour.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Zippy Boxes

For Students 2nd - 6th
Zippy Boxes is a fun stress-free puzzle game that will keep you entertained for hours. Move the colored boxes to the square containing the same colored key to unlock the crazy creature trapped inside. Parents and children will have a...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Spinner

For Students 3rd - 8th
What can you build with things around the house? Select what you would like to make, click on three items you have and want to use, and click on the spinner to get ideas and instructions.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Sky Glider

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a blimp (airship) that travels in a straight path across the room? Give this one a try.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Zip Line

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your job is to design and build a ping-pong carrier and send it down a zip line in 4 seconds or less. Are you up to the task?
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the River Crossing Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno, they must cross over to the left bank of a crocodile-infested river. Can you help them figure out how to get across...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Passcode Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
In a dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity's last hope. Unfortunately, you've all been captured by the tyrannical rulers and brought to the ancient coliseum for their deadly entertainment. Will you be able to solve the...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Locker Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you...