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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: 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: 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: 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: Box Pop Up Card
Follow these instructions to make pop-up greeting cards for your friends.
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Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Dress Up Game
Enjoy playing dress up with Daniel and his friends. Pick a character and select the outfits and accessories you want them to wear.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Color Concentration Game
This activity provides templates and directions for making color concentration cards to be used in playing a color-match concentration game.
British Council
Learn English Kids: The Leaves on the Trees
Listen to a song about how trees change throughout the seasons. Do the matching activity and print off an activity that sees how well you can follow directions.
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Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Bathtime Helper
During this interactive game based on the PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Daniel Tiger assists his mom with giving his baby sister a bath. [Requires Flash Player].
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Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Playing Tea Party
During this interactive game based on the PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Daniel Tiger has a tea party. Students will help pick out everything to include during the tea party. [Requires Flash Player].
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Tens and One Game [Pdf]
Students will explore place value using base ten blocks and following the given directions.
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Ab Cya: Alan's Pizzeria
Welcome to Alan's Pizzeria! Put your pizza-making skills to the test with this exciting restaurant game. After you take your customer's order, work fast to create and cook the perfect pizza. But be careful not to mix up the peppers with...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Wild Jack
This math game is great for practice using all the operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. All you need is a deck of regular playing cards. Just follow the directions and you are in business.
San Diego State University
Color Mixing Memory
Follow the directions to create this card game for your classroom. The objective is to reinforce color mixing basics. Players work to collect the three matches needed before their opponent does.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Kids Zone: Brickmaker Build Up
Learning game in which students follow directions to put the activities in order in the timeline to see how the fascinating process and art of brickmaking.
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Pbs Kids: Kart Kingdom
Pick your character's features, pick your cart, and be off on a driving adventure.
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Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build
Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Speedy Shelter
This challenge is to design and build a sturdy emergency shelter that can fit one person and easy to build. Are you up to the challenge?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Inspector Detector
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
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
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
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: Zip Line
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?