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"This is a workbook perfect for any child interested in science or struggling with science. As an elementary teacher, there is a lot of curriculum related information in the book." — Atherton Community Schools

How is a canyon formed? What makes the sky blue? Your child will love to learn the answers to these questions!

This workbook promotes:

• √ Critical thinking
• √ Earth science
• √ Data interpretation
• √ Investigation & research
• √ Physical science
• • Clear vocabulary and clever illustrations explore our amazing planet
• • Easy-to-read passages spotlight science topics, and word problems scale the heights of real mountains
• • Fun themes: energy sources, geography, and landforms
• • A certificate of completion ends each section
• • Perforated pages for easy removal Education.com workbooks offer thematic content to actively engage children and provide them with fun-filled, memorable learning experiences.

Written by teachers and based on subjects educators consider important, these workbooks have been tested by millions of educators and countless hours of classroom use: 1 in 4 U.S. teachers rely on Education.com material. Education.com and Dover Publications.

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Give your preschooler a strong computer science foundation with Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities.

Children will learn important coding concepts with engaging stories and practice activities. Based on the K–12 Computer Science Framework, this dynamic early learning series helps children understand coding concepts to develop a strong foundation in computer science, including computational thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking.

Recipient of Creative Child Magazine's 2022 Book of the Year Award, Smart Start: Beginning Coding provides engaging, screen-free coding activities that build foundational skills.

Each full-color activity book is organized into eight themed units around one coding concept and includes:

• Coding stories that demonstrate what coders do and include an audio read-aloud feature
• Concept pages that connect coding concepts to real-world situations
• Practice activities that reinforce important coding rules
• Review pages for every coding concept practiced
• Coding projects with print-based games and puzzles
• Mini coding handbook with key terms

Computer science concepts and skills help early learners become critical thinkers by practicing the building blocks of thinking such as:

• Algorithms that design simple steps to solve problems
• Decomposition that shows how to break down complex problems into smaller ones
• Sequencing that demonstrates how the order of things is important
• Pattern recognition that makes connections between similar problems

Programming language concepts such as:

• Debugging that shows how to look for mistakes and correct them
• Loops that can be used to save time by instructing a computer to repeat an action

Children will also practice a variety of readiness skills such as print awareness, visual discrimination, following directions, and fine-motor skills.

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Do you have what it takes to become a science sleuth? Of course you do! Discover how to gather clues and collect evidence to catch a thief, follow instructions to extract DNA from strawberries, take your own fingerprints, analyze handwriting, and much more. While you're having fun inspecting, detecting, and experimenting, you'll be learning all about the intriguing world of forensic science and its important role in real life.

Dover Original.

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Inspire students to explore real-world science topics with Science Lessons and Investigations! The 12 robust science units present important science concepts, supporting Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in life, earth, and physical science.

Science Lessons and Investigations provides you with teaching support and comprehensive science units that include: Concept engagement activity that sparks students’ interest and engages prior knowledge by introducing each topic with questions and discussion. (Engage) Exploration activity that helps students explore the concept through hands-on investigation. (Explore) Reading selections, real-life visuals, and vocabulary review to help students develop understanding. (Explain) Comprehension activities incorporating higher-order thinking to help students show and apply what they have learned. (Evaluate) Writing prompts and hands-on activities* to help students apply and extend their understanding. (Extend)

*The hands-on activities may include science experiments, STEM challenges, art projects, or other cross-curricular activities.

Topics covered in Science Lessons and Investigations grade 3 include:

• Life Science
• Plant and Animal Life Cycles

• Nature and Nurture Adaptations
• Organisms in a Changing Environment
• Group and Social Behavior
• Fossils of Ancestors
• Earth Science
• Weather
• Climate
• Natural Processes and Hazards
• Physical Science
• Changes in Movement
• Predicting Motion from Patterns
• Magnetic Forces

Includes answer key for vocabulary and comprehension activities. Ideal for the classroom and homeschooling. 

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Craft, Plant, Water, GROW! 2 hot trends in one complete crafting kit.

Turn this plastic mason-style jar into your own little habitat with real plants and tin figurines. Set includes a 5" h x 3-1/4" w jar, decorative lid, potting mix, organic chia and wheat grass seeds, garden figurines, decorative sand, river stones and a plant mister. Add dimension to your garden with translucent and glow-in-the-dark stickers - hold it up to the light and watch the fireflies glow.

A terrarium is a miniature garden in a simulated natural environment. The Grow N’ Glow Terrarium is a complete kit for helping kids to create their very own miniature eco-system. It’s so easy!

You just assemble, decorate, water and watch it grow! It’s a fun way to teach kids about botany, eco-systems and the life cycle of plants. Kids love to see how things work and especially how the magic of seeds, soil, sun and water will blossom into green plants!

This is a great lesson in cause-and-effect, responsible stewardship and delayed gratification, since the terrarium needs to be misted each day for the seeds to sprout and grow. Like keeping a pet, the plants will only thrive if they’re given water each day – but no worries – if they forget to water it they learn the importance of water to the life cycle! And when they do water it, the seeds begin to shoot up in three to four days.

Creativity for Kids Grow N’ Glow Terrarium is fun for both boys and girls – all year long! Kids will experience the accomplishment of growing their own little habitat.

The Grow N’ Glow Terrarium is the perfect STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ART, Math) experience.

Ages: 6 to 96

Contents Include: Plastic mason-style jar Decorative lid Potting mix Organic chia and wheat grass seeds Garden figurines Decorative sand River stones and a plant mister Translucent and glow-in-the-dark stickers

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Build and program amazing robots that balance on two wheels!

Discover the world of robotics — an exciting, interdisciplinary field combining physics, engineering, and computer science.

This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics. You can build eight motorized robots that use a special self-balancing technology to move around. Code programs for your robots using an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robots via a wireless Bluetooth connection.

The robots use a combination of sensors to balance themselves. A gyroscope sensor is used to detect the angle of tilt of the vehicle. An accelerometer is a sensor that detects the acceleration, or change in speed, of the vehicle. Together, these two sensors can tell the microcontroller — the robot’s “brain” — if the vehicle is tilting too far forward or backward and moving too fast forward or backward to remain balanced. Then, sensors attached to the motors, called encoders, can determine the current speed of the wheels.

Using the app interface, you can program the robots to move at different speeds and in different directions, and you can program them to light up in various colors and play sounds. Digital assembly instructions are also available in a separate app for Android or iOS. In the programming app, the visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ lights, sounds, and motors. The motors can be programmed to move at different times, different power levels, in different directions, and in response to the data from the gyroscope sensor.

Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android.

Please check the app stores for compatibility and device requirements.

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Excavate three real mineral specimens from a plaster block: quartz, amethyst, and pyrite (also known as fool’s gold!).

Use tools like a real rock hunter.

Explore the geological science of crystals, rocks, and minerals.

Recommended for ages 8 and up.

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The Big IdeaUp close and far away, bring nature your way with the world's only 2-in-1 microscope/telescope!

Psst...They're Learning!

Encourages scientific exploration and discovery

Introduces the wonderful world of life science

Perfect for STEM learning and scientific exploration on the go!

Cut to the Chase

Includes scope with 8x magnification, perfect-fit goggles with enlarged eyepieces, break-away strap, soft rubber hand grips, and telescoping barrel with 15x magnification for distance viewing

Magnification and field of vision designed specifically for preschoolers' level of perception

The ONLY combined microscope and telescope out there!

Objects will look upside down or backwards in MICROSCOPE MODE. Just like a real scientist, you are viewing through convex lenses, that make objects appear reversed. To view right side up, simply turn the object upside down before observing it with your Explorer Scope.

Ages 3-6

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Program and control 8 robots with your tablet or smartphone.

Robotics is a vast, thrilling, and sometimes overwhelming interdisciplinary field involving physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that lets them build eight motorized machines controlled by programs and an ultrasound sensor. The models all make use of continuous tracks, also known as tank treads, to move themselves and other objects around. Kids code the programs using an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robot models via a wireless Bluetooth connection.

Build a robot with two large continuous tracks that drives around and avoids obstacles in its path. After learning how the technology works, you can build and program your own robots using the kit’s 197 building pieces. A full-color, 60-page step-by-step illustrated manual helps kids assemble all of the models and teaches them about robotics in the real world. Digital assembly instructions are also available in a separate app for Android or iOS. In the programming app, the visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ motors to move at different times, different power levels, in different directions, and in response to the data from the sensor. Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android.

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STEM!

Develop your fifth grade students creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges.

Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 5 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.

Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.

No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

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Develop your fourth grade students creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges.

Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 4 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.

No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge, including: Teacher overview pages Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather

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STEM!

Develop your third grade students creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 3 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.

Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.

No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge, including: Teacher overview pages Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.

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Develop your second grade students creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges.

Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 2 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations. 

The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts. 

Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign. 

No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge, including: Teacher overview pages Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.

Reading selections for background knowledge Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.

Visual real-world examples A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.

A STEM challenge overview Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.

Design process worksheets Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

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Develop your first grade students creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems. Every grade 1 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations. o The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts. o Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign. o No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day. Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge, including: Teacher overview pages Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather. Reading selections for background knowledge Ages 5+ Learn More

Discover the essential skills required on the way to becoming a scientist in this innovative activity book.

Packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, Scientist Academy introduces and then guides young readers through five different types of scientists—laboratory scientist, investigative scientist, space scientist, earth scientist, and life scientist. Practical projects, each carefully designed to introduce the types of skills required by the different real-life scientists, help kids pick up the basics in a fun, hands-on way. Create a pendulum, investigate a crime scene, uncover some fossils, and study the solar system—the sky’s the limit! The “Science File” section contains all sorts of goodies, such as Science Pairs game cards, a periodic table poster, and zoology stickers.

Series: Academy Series The academy series features activities, cool quizzes, and super skill tests. Stickers, model, poster, and games included. Whimsical art and creative fun for anywhere!

Age 7+                                      Publisher: Kane Miller

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Packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, it guides readers through each strand of engineering science – Mechanics, Aerospace, Robotics, Energy, and Materials. Practical projects, each carefully designed to introduce the kinds of skills required by real-life engineers, help kids pick up the basics in a fun, hands-on way. Design a robot, learn how to construct a simple car, create levers and pulleys, build paper planes, plus many other educational and inspirational activities – the sky’s the limit!

Series: Academy Series

The academy series features activities, cool quizzes, and super skill tests. Stickers, model, poster, and games included. Whimsical art and creative fun for anywhere!

Age 7+

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Develop your sixth grade students’ creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 6 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

• The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, earth, and physical science concepts.
• Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
• No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge, including:

• Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
• Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
• Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
• A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
• Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
• A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.

Examples of STEM challenges and science topics from grade 6 include:

• Egg-Laying Box (Life Science Concept:Simple Machines (inclined plane)
• Submarine (Earth Science Concept: Buoyancy)
• Projector (Physical Science Concept: Optics)

Science topics within each unit support Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and teach the STEM process.

An answer key is not included, since there isn’t one correct answer or solution to solve the problem or complete the challenge.

STEM Lessons and Challenges fosters students’ critical thinking, innovation, communication, and peer collaboration!

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Robotics Smart Machines: Rovers & Vehicles

Robotics is a vast, thrilling, and sometimes overwhelming interdisciplinary field involving physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that lets them build eight motorized machines controlled by programs and an ultrasound sensor.

Kids code the programs using an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robot models via a wireless Bluetooth connection. The ultrasonic sensor works on the same principle as sonar. It sends out sound waves, which bounce off objects. The sensor interprets the echoes returning to it, and from this detects objects in the path of the sensor. Using the app interface, you can program the robots you build to behave based on the feedback coming from the ultrasound sensor.

Build a shy turtle robot that drives around and quickly avoids obstacles in its path. The friendly rover bot model first looks around for your hand and, once detected, moves toward it and follows it around. Construct an awesome desert explorer robot with wheels on legs; first it drives around, but when it detects an object in its range, it starts “walking” slowly toward it. Experiment with altering the program of your cute dancing robot so that the robot dances to the beat of a song you play for it. Set up an obstacle course and watch the scout rover use its ultrasonic sensor to navigate around the obstacles. A cool helicopter model spins its rotors and then raises its landing gear when you lift it off the tabletop. You can also assemble other fun robots including a dozer bot with a bulldozer blade and a scorpion robot with a stinger tail.

After you have learned how the technology works, you can build and program your own robots using the kit’s 233 building pieces. A full-color, 64-page step-by-step illustrated manual helps kids assemble all of the models and teaches them about robotics in the real world. The visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ motors to move at different times, different power levels, in different directions, and in response to the data from the sensor.

Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android. Check the app stores for compatibility and device requirements. Ages 8 & up. From Thames & Kosmos

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In RSO Earth & Environment 1, the topics include scientific modeling, a study of three of Earth’s “spheres,” weather, climate, the environment, erosion, and plate tectonics. Students study the weather; climate and climate change; the age of the earth and forces that shape it; and current pollution and environmental issues that affect water, land, and air. Short lessons are followed by several hands-on labs and activities including making a Pangaea puzzle, testing various methods of cleaning an oil spill, making a geologic timeline, and water cycle in a bowl. Rocks and minerals are studied in depth with students identifying their samples through the same tests used by geologists.Earth & Environment 1 (E&E1) is being offered as an alternative to one of Pandia Press' most popular courses, Earth & Space 1. Some of the best parts of Earth & Space 1 (E&S1) are included in this course, but E&E1 includes many new elements; most notably environmental science topics and scientific modeling activities have been added. This innovative course is being offered to those yearning for a more nuanced Earth science course with environmental science woven throughout. 318 Pages. From Pandia Press. Grade Levels 1-4. Need extra student pages? See #3243

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Designed to be used with REAL Science Odyssey – Astronomy Student Book, Level 2, (sold separately, Item #3018) this teacher guide provides all the help a science novice needs to assist his/her student including suggested course scheduling, summaries, additional material and explanations, sample reports, learning objectives, answers and suggestions, and test answer keys. Divided into 12 chapters, Astronomy 2 provides a complete semester-long astronomy course that is generally completed in 12 to 16 weeks. Some lab work, such as monitoring the sun and the moon over an extended period of time, is continued after completion of the main course. From Pandia Press. Learn More

RSO Astronomy (level 2), written by Blair Lee M.S., is a comprehensive astronomy course at the middle school- to high school-level (grades 6 through 10). But unlike many science textbooks, RSO Astronomy 2 is not a dry collection of facts and worksheets but rather an in-depth course that engages young people’s minds at the same time that they are actively participating in the learning of astronomy.

RSO Astronomy 2 has been created specifically for home and small group use. The course assumes no science background for teacher or student, and there’s no need for an expensive laboratory. Astronomy 2 uses natural settings that encourage students to explore the world and the sky around them. The materials needed for labs and activities are commonly found items.

The course is contained in two books (student text and teacher guide, sold separately. Teacher Guide Item #3138)). The student text starts each chapter with an entertaining written lesson that is followed by several components intended to reinforce the lesson, address the needs of different learning styles, and engage students in hands-on learning and research. These components include lab sheets, lab reports, problem sets, activities, famous science research assignments, poetry, quizzes, and tests. The teacher guide provides all the help a science novice needs to assist her student including suggested course scheduling, summaries, additional material and explanations, sample reports, learning objectives, answers and suggestions, and test answer keys. Divided into 12 chapters, Astronomy 2 provides a complete semester-long astronomy course that is generally completed in 12 to 16 weeks. Some lab work, such as monitoring the sun and the moon over an extended period of time, is continued after completion of the main course.

Grades 6-10. From Pandia Press.

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These amazing 3D Self Assembly models from UGEARS are fun to assemble as well as educational. The clear view of all the moving components, including gears and pendulums, creates a unique, unforgettable and fascinating look at everyday (and not so everyday) machinery and engineering concepts. Although, the kits come with clear step-by-step instruction, they can also be called puzzles as the challenge is always present. These unique self-propelled mechanical models are made of sustainable, eco-friendly wood, and each UGEARS model assembles easily and without the need for glue or special tools. Each model is capable of a unique and fascinating range of self-powered movements, all without batteries. The UGEARS Locomotive employs all technical solutions UGears have come up with for previous models, and more. It looks realistic and unique at the same time and shows off the UGEARS style and modeler skills prominently. Spinning gears, pistons and wheels carry the body and soul of 19th century engineering, when locomotives represented the mainstream of technical progress, the time of a fierce competition between the developed countries in steamers’ construction. It is the largest model, rich with details, the fanciest model of the entire UGEARS range with the largest number of parts. Completed, the Locomotive stands out as a truly original piece of mechanics that required diligent assembly work. (Although it may look complex, it is not that hard to build). Using the massive gearwheel array, this relatively big model can run up to a distance of over 15 feet. The distance and speed depend on the winding of the largest 12 rubber band engine. The engine is started with a lever near the driver's window. UGEARS has tried to make the locomotive main mechanism move as close to the real thing as possible with asynchronously operating piston and valve. They’re clearly visible inside the model, allowing a spectator to see how steam would get into the Locomotive’s steam chamber. The little doors and roof hatch let you take a look inside the Locomotive’s cabin, complete with an instrument panel and a retractable ladder beneath the door. Once assembled, this is truly an amazing work of art and science! Number of parts: 443; Level: Hard; Assembly Time: 10-12 hours; Recommended Age: 14+ Learn More

Create cool chemistry experiments with real scientific tools! Kids can safely explore scientific principles right at home with everything they need to delve into the world of chemistry.

•Promotes scientific observation and documentation

•Practice conducting real science experiments

•Encourages a love of the scientific method •Perfect for STEM learning

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Get preschoolers excited about science and introduce them to the miracles of magnification with My First Microscope! Magnify any small object – flat or dimensional – at 8x with this real, working microscope designed especially for little kids!

• Encourages scientific exploration
• Rewards curiosity
• Introduces kids to a key scientific tool
• A microscope designed with preschoolers in mind
• View anything at up to 8x magnification
• Part of the award-winning GeoSafari Jr. line of toys

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