| About the Science Curriculum Activities Library |
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| About the Author |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| How to Use This Book |
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Listing of Activities by Topic and Subtopic |
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| Section One EARTH SCIENCE ACTIVITIES |
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3 | (24) |
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How Can You Crush a Gallon Can Without Touching It? |
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5 | (1) |
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How Can You Crush a Soda Can with Air Pressure? |
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5 | (2) |
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7 | (2) |
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What Can Air Pressure Do to an Egg? |
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9 | (4) |
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How Can You Put a Water Balloon into a Bottle? |
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13 | (2) |
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How Much Can You Lift by Blowing? |
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15 | (2) |
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How Can Air Pressure Help Airplanes Fly? |
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17 | (2) |
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How Far Can You Blow a Ping-Pong Ball from a Funnel? |
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19 | (2) |
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Why Can't the Ball Escape the Air Stream? |
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21 | (2) |
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How Can You Make an Atomizer with a Drinking Straw? |
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23 | (2) |
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How Can a Balloon Remain Inflated with Its Mouth Open? |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (10) |
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27 | (10) |
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How Can You Boil Water in a Paper Cup? |
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29 | (2) |
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How Many Nails Can You Put into a Full Glass of Water? |
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31 | (1) |
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How Can Surface Tension Be Disturbed? |
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32 | (1) |
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how Can You Make a Soap Motorboat? |
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33 | (2) |
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How Does a Hydrometer Work? |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (26) |
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37 | (26) |
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How Can You Make a Cloud? |
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39 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Thermometer? |
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41 | (2) |
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How Can We Measure Atmospheric Pressure? |
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43 | (2) |
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How Can We Measure Moisture in the Air? |
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45 | (2) |
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What Can Evaporation Tell Us About Humidity? |
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47 | (2) |
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How Can You Compare the Wet-Dry Bulb and Hair Hygrometers? |
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49 | (2) |
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How Do Heating and Cooling Affect Air Currents? |
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51 | (3) |
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What Can We Learn from a Convection Box? |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (3) |
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59 | (4) |
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63 | (30) |
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63 | (30) |
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How Can a Flat Map Show Three Dimensions? |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (1) |
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How High and Low Are the Earth's Mountains and Valleys? |
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68 | (1) |
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How Can a Flat Map Represent the Earth? |
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69 | (1) |
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How Does the Nature of the Earth's Surface Affect Atmospheric Temperature? |
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70 | (1) |
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How Do Mountains Affect Yearly Rainfall? |
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71 | (1) |
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How Do Rocks Compare in Hardness? |
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72 | (2) |
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What Color Streak Does a Rock Make? |
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74 | (1) |
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How Do Rocks React to Vinegar? |
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75 | (1) |
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Which Rocks Are Attracted by a Magnet? |
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76 | (1) |
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Which Rocks Conduct Electricity? |
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77 | (2) |
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What Type of Crystals Do Rocks Have? |
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79 | (1) |
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How Can You Measure the Density of a Rock? |
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80 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Permanent Shell Imprint? |
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82 | (2) |
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How Is Snow Compacted into Ice to Form Glaciers? |
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84 | (1) |
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How Is the Earth Like Your Body? |
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85 | (1) |
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How Is the Earth Like a Jigsaw Puzzle? |
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86 | (2) |
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88 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Volcano Replica? |
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90 | (3) |
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93 | (6) |
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93 | (6) |
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How Is Energy Transferred in an Ecosystem? |
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95 | (2) |
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Which Solids Decompose Easily? |
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97 | (2) |
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99 | (24) |
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99 | (24) |
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How Can a Ball Help You Move? |
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101 | (2) |
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What Type of Energy Is This? |
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103 | (2) |
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What Can a Marble Game Tell Us? |
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105 | (1) |
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How Can We Use Action-Reaction? |
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106 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Soda Straw Rocket? |
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108 | (1) |
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How Do Other Forces Affect Our Rocket's Performance? |
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109 | (2) |
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How Can We Develop More Thrust? |
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111 | (2) |
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How Does Gravity Affect Objects? |
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113 | (1) |
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How Does Inertia Affect Objects? |
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114 | (2) |
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How Can You Put a Coin in a Glass Without Touching the Coin? |
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116 | (1) |
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How Do Gravity and Inertia Affect Space Travel? |
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117 | (2) |
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How Can You Compare Gravity and Inertia? |
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119 | (1) |
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How Does Weightlessness Feel? |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (14) |
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123 | (14) |
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What Are the Phases of the Moon? |
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125 | (3) |
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How Can We Make a Moon Model with a Movable Shadow? |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (2) |
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How Can You Safely View a Solar Eclipse? |
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| Section Two LIFE SCIENCE ACTIVITIES 135 |
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137 | (8) |
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137 | (8) |
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139 | (2) |
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How Can a Plant a ``Maze'' You? |
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141 | (2) |
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How Can You Collect Bark Without Damaging the Tree? |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (8) |
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145 | (8) |
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How Do Birds Adapt to Eating? |
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147 | (2) |
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What Are Some Other Eating Adaptations? |
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149 | (2) |
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What Are Human Teeth Like? |
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151 | (2) |
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153 | (10) |
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153 | (10) |
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How Do Fingerprints Compare? |
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155 | (1) |
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Are Human Bones Large or Small? |
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156 | (1) |
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How Many Bones Can You Count? |
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157 | (1) |
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How Are Bones Connected at a Joint? |
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158 | (1) |
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What Are Tendons and How Do They Work? |
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159 | (1) |
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What Is Bone Like Without the Mineral Material? |
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160 | (1) |
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How Many Muscles Can You Identify? |
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161 | (1) |
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How Fast Are Your Reactions? |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (14) |
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163 | (14) |
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Which Is Your Dominant Eye? |
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165 | (1) |
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How Well Do You Remember What You See? |
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166 | (1) |
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What Happens to the Iris as Light Changes? |
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167 | (1) |
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How Is a Camera Diaphragm Like the Eye? |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (1) |
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How Effective Is Your Side Vision? |
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171 | (1) |
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How Can Our Eyes Make Colors Seem to Change? |
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172 | (2) |
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How Is Taste Affected by Smell? |
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174 | (1) |
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How Can You Tell If Taste Is Affected by Smell |
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175 | (2) |
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177 | (16) |
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177 | (16) |
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How Can We Test Foods for Protein? |
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179 | (1) |
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Which Foods Contain Sugar? |
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180 | (1) |
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Which Foods Contain Starch? |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (1) |
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How Do People Count Calories? |
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184 | (1) |
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How Many Calories Do You Use? |
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185 | (2) |
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How Are Teeth Shaped for Their Task? |
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187 | (2) |
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What Does Tooth Decay Look Like? |
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189 | (1) |
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Why Are Healthy Teeth Important to You? |
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190 | (2) |
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How Can You Clean Your Teeth Best? |
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192 | (1) |
| Section Three PHYSICAL SCIENCE ACTIVITIES |
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193 | (182) |
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195 | (24) |
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195 | (24) |
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How Can the Depth of a Bathyscaph Be Controlled? |
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197 | (1) |
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How Can Chemical Changes Help You Write a Secret Message? |
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198 | (1) |
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How Does Temperature Affect the Speed of Molecules? |
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199 | (2) |
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How Does Temperature Affect Solubility? |
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201 | (2) |
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How Can Perfume Get into a Sealed Balloon? |
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203 | (2) |
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How Can You Cause Molecules to Move Through Solids? |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (2) |
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How Can a Blown-Out Candle Relight Itself? |
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208 | (2) |
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How Can You Remove the Flame from a Candle Without Putting it Out? |
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210 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Fire Extinguisher? |
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212 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Ball Bounce by Itself? |
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214 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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What Does Litmus Paper Tell Us About Substances? |
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216 | (3) |
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219 | (30) |
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219 | (30) |
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How Do Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy Compare? |
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221 | (2) |
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How Much Horsepower Do You Have? |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (2) |
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How Much Energy Is Stored in a Bow? |
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226 | (2) |
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How Can You Power a Racer with a Rubber Band? |
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228 | (2) |
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What Happens to Solids as They Are Heated and Cooled? |
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230 | (1) |
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What Happens to Liquids as They Are Heated and Cooled? |
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231 | (2) |
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What Happens to Gases as They Are Heated and Cooled? |
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233 | (2) |
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How Does a Nail Change as It Is Driven into a Board? |
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235 | (1) |
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How Can the Energy of Sound Cause Something to Move? |
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236 | (1) |
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How Can Magnetism Do Work? |
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237 | (1) |
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How Does Gravity Affect Heavy and Light Objects? |
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238 | (2) |
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What Happens When You Burn a Candle at Both Ends? |
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240 | (1) |
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What Is Center of Gravity? |
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241 | (1) |
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What Is Your Center for Gravity? |
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242 | (1) |
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How Can You Balance Several Nails on One Nail? |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (2) |
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What Is Centrifugal Force? |
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247 | (2) |
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249 | (18) |
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249 | (18) |
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251 | (2) |
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How Can a Postage Stamp Hide Under Clear Glass? |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (2) |
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How Does Water Affect the Way Light Travels? |
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256 | (1) |
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How Can You Make a Glass Disappear? |
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257 | (1) |
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How Does a Camera See the World? |
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258 | (2) |
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How Does a Lens Affect the Way Light Travels? |
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260 | (2) |
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How Are Convex and Concave Lenses Different? |
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262 | (2) |
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How Can You Measure the Magnifying Power of a Lens? |
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264 | (1) |
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How Do Detectives Use Color to Solve Crimes? |
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265 | (2) |
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267 | (38) |
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267 | (38) |
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How Can You Predict the Effort Required to Lift a Load with a First-Class Lever? |
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269 | (3) |
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What Do We Lose as We Gain Force with a Lever? |
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272 | (4) |
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How Is a Second-Class-Lever Different from a First-Class Lever? |
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276 | (2) |
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What Do You Gain and What Do You Lose by Using a Second-Class Lever? |
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278 | (3) |
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What Is a Third-Class Lever? |
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281 | (2) |
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What Is Gained and What Is Lost by Using a Third-Class Lever? |
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283 | (3) |
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What Is the Wheel and Axle? |
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286 | (3) |
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What Type of Simple Machine Is the Pencil Sharpener? |
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289 | (2) |
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291 | (4) |
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What Is a Movable Pulley? |
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295 | (4) |
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What Happens When a Small Person Tugs on a Large Person? |
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299 | (2) |
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What Can Be Gained by Combining Fixed and Movable Pulleys? |
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301 | (4) |
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305 | (18) |
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305 | (18) |
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How Do Magnets Get Their Names? |
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307 | (1) |
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What Is a Special Property of Magnetism? |
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308 | (1) |
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What Happens When a Magnet Can Turn Freely? |
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309 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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How Can You Make a Compass? |
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311 | (2) |
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What Are the Earth's Magnetic Poles? |
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313 | (2) |
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How Do Materials Become Magnetized? |
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315 | (2) |
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How Can You Find the Poles of a Lodestone? |
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317 | (1) |
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How Can You See a Magnetic Field? |
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318 | (2) |
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How Can You Preserve a Magnetic Field? |
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320 | (3) |
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323 | (6) |
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323 | (6) |
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How Can You Fill a Stocking Without Putting a Leg into It? |
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325 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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How Can You Make an Electroscope? |
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327 | (2) |
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329 | (46) |
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329 | (46) |
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What Materials Will Conduct Electricity? |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (2) |
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How Can We Model a Complete Circuit? |
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335 | (2) |
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337 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Switch? |
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339 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Series Circuit? |
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341 | (2) |
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How Can You Make a Parallel Circuit? |
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343 | (2) |
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345 | (2) |
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How Does Electric Current Affect a Compass? |
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347 | (2) |
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What Happens When Electric Current Flows Through a Wire? |
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349 | (2) |
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What Is an Electromagnet? |
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351 | (2) |
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What Is a Way to Change the Strength of an Electromagnet? |
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353 | (1) |
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What Is Another Way to Change the Strength of an Electromagnet? |
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354 | (2) |
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What Happens When Current Flowing Through a Wire ChangesDirection? |
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356 | (2) |
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How Does the Direction of the Flow of Current Affect an Electromagnet? |
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358 | (2) |
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How Can You Tell If Electric Current Is Flowing Through a Wire? |
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360 | (2) |
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How Is Electricity Produced by Chemicals? |
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362 | (2) |
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How Does a Lantern Battery or Flashlight Battery Work? |
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364 | (2) |
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How Can Electricity Be Produced by a Lemon? |
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366 | (2) |
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How Can Mechanical Energy Produce Electricity? |
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368 | (2) |
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How Can Sunlight Produce Electricity? |
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370 | (2) |
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How Can Electricity Help Us Communicate? |
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372 | (3) |
| Bibliography |
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375 | (2) |
| Selected Sources of Free and Inexpensive Materials for Elementary Science |
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377 | (2) |
| Selected Science Supply Houses? |
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379 | (4) |
| Selected Suppliers of Video Tapes, Videodiscs, and CD-ROM For Elementary |
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383 | (2) |
| Selected Suppliers of Computer Software for Elementary Science |
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