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Discovery Education: Brain Boosters
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: Curriculum Center: Science
The Discovery Channel provides numerous topics that are the most popular science topics taught in upper elementary and middle school. Content is organized by topics (Bacteria, Oceans, Solar System, etc.); all topics include quick facts,...
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Discovery Education: Your Daily Learning Platform
An index to the Discovery Channel. Find resources for teachers, students, and even parents, from science experiments to math help, to virtual field trips.
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Discovery Education: Knowing When to Contact Your Child's Teacher
An article written by a teacher gives tips on when and how to contact your child's teachers to ensure success.
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Discovery Education: Make the Most of Parent Teacher Conferences
You're meeting your child's teacher for the first time. How can you make the best use of this conference? Here are some good ideas.
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Discovery Education: The Dirt on Soil
This interactive website explores the various soil layers and introduces you to the lifeforms that live in those soil layers.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Project Samples
Explore three science fair project samples about birds, stain removal, and keeping it cool. See how the report is written after the investigation is complete.
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Discovery Education: Getting Your Child Ready to Read
How proud we are when our children start reading! We love the looks on their faces when they get a new book. How can we start them down this road? Find some excellent ideas in this article.
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Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Acids and Bases
As this video introducing properties and uses of acids and bases plays, roll over and click on parts of the presentation to read more information about specific related items and terms, like citric acid, reactions, ionic lights, ammonia,...
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Discovery Education: Homework Helper: What Is a Watershed?
This video describes what watersheds are and where they are located. View several different watersheds and learn how their flow is affected by the topography around them. [7:11]
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Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Wind Energy Virtual Lab
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: Korean War
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: Lesson Plans Library K 5
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 Science Fair Project Idea
Great science fair project ideas! Learn how to ask a testable question and choose from elementary, middle school, or high school science fair project ideas. View examples of testable questions, and see what is changed, what stays the...
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Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Organism Needs (Habitats)
An interactive game asks you to identify the habitat needs of certain animals by building a suitable habitat for a parrot, lion, and beaver.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: The Everyday Science of Sports [Pdf]
A lesson plan where learners learn about the physics behind golf balls. Students evaluate different designs of golf balls to understand how their design impacts their function. After their evaluation, learners will try to improve the...
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Discovery Education: Fun Facts About Wooly Mammoths
This site will explain how the Woolly Mammoth evolved, where it migrated and what is now being done to try and clone it.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Invention Project Samples
Discover how to present your findings after completing a science fair project. View sample science fair invention projects: junior light switcher, quiet down invention, and stale sandwiches.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Too Hot to Handle
Can you design a handle for Hot Stuff's new skillet?
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Innovation Exploration
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
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
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
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
Sharp Pencils and water-filled sandwich bags demonstrate the nature of certain polymers.