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Simulate the epic, earth-shattering power of a volcano in your own home! Build a huge volcano model with a sturdy frame that effortlessly slides together. Wrap the frame in hardening plaster-coated fabric strips and then paint it to look like the real thing. Then, bring your volcano to life with cutouts of dinosaurs and prehistoric trees — this isn’t just any old volcano; this is a model of an extremely ancient and immensely large volcano from the days dinosaurs roamed the planet! 

When you’re ready for action, simply mix the two non-hazardous powders, dye, and water to create a chemical reaction of flowing red ooze that simulates the molten hot lava flows of a real volcanic eruption. Six packets of chemicals are included, allowing the volcano to be erupted multiple times. The volcano frame enables you to choose between two volcano shapes, with the final model measuring more than one foot tall.  

A large, full-color scientific poster of a volcano with illustrated instructions and lots of educational information about volcanoes is included. By studying these awe-inspiring and cataclysmic natural phenomena, you can learn more about the inner workings of Earth, learn about the different types of volcanoes and what causes them, and explore volcanoes around the world and how they have affected life on Earth for eons. Get ready to journey back in time and deep beneath Earth’s surface with this fun, hands-on craft project and fascinating science lesson!

Designed for middle-school history curriculum, independent study, or tutorial aid, the American History series provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies.

Perfect to supplement your social studies curriculum, activities in Industrialization through the Great Depression include critical thinking, writing, technology, and more!

This 128-page social studies resource book includes topics such as:

• early American factories
• Morse code
• Henry Ford
• the roaring ’20s
• the New Deal program

Vocabulary words, time lines, maps, and reading lists are also provided.

Meets NCSS standards and is correlated to state, national and Canadian provincial standards.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.

Developing the Next Generation of Public Speakers

This twelve-week course introduces your middle- and high-school students to the processes and practices that will help them build competence and confidence in public speaking. Students will learn techniques for memorizing speeches and poems, exercises for their voices, tips for better persuasion, strategies for impromptu speeches, and more!

Have a blast with this awesome engineering project! Construct an air-powered robotic glove that launches safe foam darts. Learn about pneumatics — technologies that use pressurized air to perform work — and many cool mechanisms as you assemble the blaster from over 100 pieces.

After you’ve built and tested your blaster, slide it on and strap it to your wrist. The first pull of the trigger causes the scissor arm to lift up the barrels and launch the first dart. Pull the trigger two more times to launch the next two darts. Grab some additional darts from the reserve clip under your wrist and reload. The blaster is entirely powered by your hand and the amazing pneumatic system — no batteries or motors required! 

Turn the dial to rotate the two outer launchers for a wider spread. Adjust the location of the wrist strap to fit almost all hands. A full-color, step-by-step manual guides you through assembling and using the blaster and provides fascinating scientific information about pneumatic systems and the physics of air. Compatible with many standard foam darts.

• Build a pneumatic glove that launches foam darts.
• Learn about pneumatics and the physics of air pressure.
• Barrels raise and lower and rotate outward and inward
• Adjust to fit almost any hand size.
• Compatible with many standard foam darts
• High play value, even after initial construction is complete
• Use alone or alongside Mega Cyborg Hand, the 2021 STEAM Toy of the Year Winner.

Build a zany inflatable tube dancer that uses the physics of flowing air to perform its eye-catching moves. Like the air dancers and tube men you may have seen around your town, this motorized device uses a blower motor and a fabric tube to slink, shimmy, and shake around. Assemble the model to learn about its inner mechanisms, including fan and electric circuit, complete with battery, motor, and switch. Conduct four fun additional experiments that demonstrate principles in air pressure, air flow, and aerodynamics. Make a ball float on a stream of air, practice your aim in a game of air basketball, and launch balls into the air with the air cannon. This hands-on kit brings physics to life as it demonstrates the power of air pressure at work. An eight-panel, full-color manual guides your model building with step-by-step illustrated instructions.

+ Build a model that “dances” on air – over one foot tall!

+ Assemble and decorate your own inflatable tube dancer.

+ Adjust the blower to change the dancer’s motion.

+ Conduct experiments to learn lessons in air pressure, airflow, and aerodynamics.

+ Learn about gears and circuits as you assemble the fan.

+ Includes fun, hands-on activities like air basketball, a floating ball trick, and an air cannon.

Learn the basics of coding! Download the Snap Circuits^® App and control Snap Circuits^® projects using your smartphone or tablet to control lights, sounds and a motor! Discover Coding is a great introduction to coding, using easy graphical coding. More advanced coders can move up to BLOCKLY coding.

For nearly 20 years, future engineers all over the world have learned basic electricity with Snap Circuits^® kits. Now, Snap Circuits^® is taking the next generation into the world of coding! Download the Snap Circuits^® App and control Snap Circuits^® projects using your smartphone or tablet to control lights, sounds and a motor! Discover Coding is a great introduction to coding, using easy graphical coding. More advanced coders can move up to BLOCKLY coding.

Three ways to control:

• Real-time control
• Easy-to-use graphical coding
• BLOCKLY code

Learn the basics of coding, then code your own patterns of lights, sounds and moving parts.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year--give students practice in answering questions in the reading and writing sections of the SAT. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year--review, practice, and teach arth-science topics. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with fascinating earth-science activities, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking. 

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year--review, practice, and teach physics. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with fascinating physics activities, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking. 

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year--review, practice, and teach chemistry topics. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with fascinating chemistry activities, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- practice critical thinking skills in English, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Life Skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with structure and focus, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking skills. As students build their critical-thinking skills, they will be better prepared to for standardized tests, such as the PSAT and SAT.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- help students practice critical thinking skills in language arts, math, social studies, science, and life skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to helping students warm up and focus, they are a natural lead-in to other classroom activities involving critical thinking skills. As students build their critical-thinking skills, they will be better prepared to tackle standardized tests as well.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- review, practice, and teach the principles of logic. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with interesting logic problems, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- review, practice, and teach math word problems. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with fascinating math activities, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking.

The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- practice general math skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. 

Get ready to have fun making delicious lollipops while learning science and math! Whip up batches of red cherry and blue raspberry lollipops, plus a massive ring lollipop with both flavors! Learn about temperature as you use the thermometer to boil sugar and discover how it crystallizes to form hard candy. Gain experience with measurements, conversions, volumes, and weights, and then calculate the volume of your lollipops. The kit includes two special flavored lollipop mixes, a plastic molding tray, candy thermometer, measuring beaker, ring lollipop base, and lollipop sticks.

A group of farm animals are ready to moo-oooove about the farm! Play this version of the classic board game, Snakes and Ladders. Hey! Hay! Can you climb your way to the top or are you getting muddy as you slide past a buddy? The farm animals are having so much fun counting their way to the win - will it be you? A great game for the whole family! It includes six pawns and stands, gameboard, and spinner.

Skills learned:
Number recognition
Basic counting
Direction/movement comprehension
Social development
Animal recognition

Dino Dash - be quick or be extinct! It's the Cretaceous card game that's fun for all ages! Think quick, react fast and try to play all your dinosaur cards out before anyone else. Watch out for falling meteorites though, they'll slow you down. You'll roar with laughter in this dino matching game that's guaranteed to ensure the survival of the fittest!

Assemble your game board and grab your bear counters, then spin and match by color, size, or number. The first to get 3 bears in a row wins! Features customizable boards for unique play each time! Includes 4 boards, paper tiles, plastic bears, and spinner.

The Counting Kids are here to help kids build preschool number and color skills! Count up all-new skills with this friendly, diverse set of jumbo counters. Included activities invite kids to play along. Each big counter is specially designed for smaller hands!

This magical math adventure is filled with hearts, stars, rainbows, and more! Kids learn addition, subtraction, patterning, and other kindergarten math skills with hands-on puzzles, games, and building challenges. Includes 15 double-sided write-and-wipe activity cards and 100 MathLink Cubes in 10 rainbow-themed colors.

This undersea math adventure is filled with sharks, sea turtles, and more! Kids learn addition, subtraction, patterning, and other kindergarten math skills with hands-on puzzles, games, and building challenges. Includes 15 double-sided write-and-wipe activity cards and 100 MathLink Cubes in 10 ocean-themed colors.

Get ready for all-new PreK math adventures! Preschoolers learn counting, colors, shapes, and other school-ready math skills with hands-on puzzles, games, and building challenges. Includes 15 doublesided write-and-wipe activity cards and 100 MathLink Cubes in 10 cool colors.

Ready, aim… alphabet! Draw a card, aim the cannon, and knock down the letters needed to complete your words in this action-packed spelling game! Includes pop launcher with 2 foam balls, 30 double-sided letter cards (uppercase and lowercase), and 26 double-sided spelling cards.