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-glue
-amplify unit
https://www.nsta.org/lesson-plan/how-can-properties-help-solve-problems

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-tinkering studio
-foss unit

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-pull from FOSS balance and motion
-pull from pushes/pulls amplify
-DIY wooden roller cars
-pbs science/engr apps
-cardboard ramps, heights, hit the target game
-build on the wall
-obstacle course design at home?
-pinball wizard ruff ruff man activity
-rollercoaster designs?
-friction testing on different household surfaces; watch magic school bus about friction

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-pull from tinkering studio
-pinwheels, windmills, tops, spinning toys from discount school supplies
-supplement with FOSS balance and motion
-rocket pullback toy

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Explore Gravity and Friction With Marble Runs | Crafts for Kids

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Create different tracks for a marble as you and your child experiment with the forces of friction and gravity!

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Which Objects Can Balance? | Crafts for Kids

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Sparks' Crew notices that ice cream cones are pointy on the bottom. You can't make an ice cream cone stand up by itself. The cone doesn't balance. It wobbles and falls down. You and your child can use your Superpowers of Science! Your child can investigate different objects. Your child can predict...

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-culminating part of balance and motion project
-use pbs design squad videos?
https://sulham.weebly.com/pbl-toy-project.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DEdjEo85hY&feature=emb_logo

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https://mttam.padlet.org/anastassiaradeva1/gamesk12

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-3 little pigs
-billy goats fluff
-jack and the beanstalk
-three little bears

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-billy goats boat
-pbs play/learn science app; explore objects and then specific materials and test if they sink or float; discuss weight
-pull from solids/liquids FOSS unit

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Craft a Nature Sailboat | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Let's catch the wind! Wind is air in motion: it can keep a kite in high in the sky and push a boat right across the water. Help your child explore the concept of wind with their very own DIY sailboat.

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-revisit billy goats story
-local GG bridge connection
-build with sticks and string
-build with block and legos

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-3 little pigs
-pbs play/learn engineering app; testing different bases, structures
-how a house is built & tangled movie watching ?
-pull from solids/liquids FOSS unit

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-jack and the beanstalk parachute
-drop copters
-properties of materials

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-foss unit; redo after 1st grade does it since this group didn't get to it during 2019-20 distance learning

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How to Make Soap | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Colorful handmade soaps make a great gift idea for kids of all ages! Learn how to make soap for kids on PBS KIDS for Parents.

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Ice Science Experiment: What Makes Ice Melt Fastest? | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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This cool science experiment shows how different variables impact how quickly ice melts.

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Exploring Hot and Cold Changes | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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When Stevie Heat melts the Fro Yo, it changed to liquid. Then AJ Gadgets uses his Chill Gadget to make the Fro Yo cold and the Fro Yo turns solid again. You and your child can investigate what happens when you heat solid materials and then cool the materials.

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Create a Melted Bead Bowl | Crafts for Kids

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Give loose beads a brand new life with this simple science and art project.

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garden exploration, pulled from life lab

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-more about systems level thinking

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https://mysteryscience.com/materials/properties-phases-of-matter

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-lego crash test
-how legos are made
https://galileo-camps.com/galileo-anywhere/project-challenge/diy-lego-crash-test/

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pom pom racetrack on the floor with tape

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pom pom racetrack on the floor with tape

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Pom-Pom Racing: Make an Indoor Racetrack | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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This easy racing activity is perfect for cold or rainy indoor days. Set up a quick racetrack on the floor using tape - your child can race trucks, stuffies, or even see which one of you can blow a pom pom around the track the fastest.

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Push, Slide, Bounce! Make Your Own Mini-Golf Game | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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When Sparks' Crew saves the day at the Super Duper Store, Sara Snap gives the Crew's raft a strong push. The raft bumps into other objects and bounces off in different directions! You and your child can explore the science how things move with this exciting game.

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Friction Racing | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Friction is a natural, unseen force that slows things down. However, not all surfaces will slow objects at the same rate. If you roll a ball across gravel or a rough sidewalk, it will slow down sooner than if you roll it across a smooth floor or ice.

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https://mysteryscience.com/pushes/forces-machines-engineering

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-solar system model
-pull from amplify online resources
-constellations PBS project
https://www.nsta.org/lesson-plan/why-our-sun-so-big-and-bright

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https://mysteryscience.com/sky/sun-moon-stars

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Shoot Easy Paper Rockets | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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These paper rockets will zoom in front of your nose, chase you around the house and ultimately get lost behind furniture! The best part? All you need is a few household ingredients to keep your kids busy for hours!

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Create Your Own Constellation Centerpiece | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Creating a glow-in-the-dark constellation centerpiece is a fun way to learn the constellations during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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Engineer a Rocket Ship | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Using paper and string, your child will create a pulley system that sends a gliding rocket ship soaring through space.

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READ ALONG with CARLA HALL! | My Rainy Day Rocket Ship | PBS KIDS

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DIY Solar System Scale Model | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Help your child visualize the distance between planets with a simple scale model using toilet paper.

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-amplify unit, with additions from mystery science and biomimicry institute

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https://mysteryscience.com/powers/plant-animal-structures-and-survival

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https://mysteryscience.com/plants/plant-adaptations

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https://mysteryscience.com/biodiversity/animal-biodiversity

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Craft a Color Changing Chameleon | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Turn a couple of paper plates and some paint into a great visualization of how chameleons change colors to match their settings.

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-how small parts make up bigger piece of art

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Parachute Parade | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Challenge your family to strengthen their engineering skills by designing a parachute that helps a toy mini-figure reach the ground slowly and safely.

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Build a Better Bunny-Copter | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Help your child build a twirling bunny-copter! It will help him learn how to recognize the value of refining and optimizing an existing invention to improve its performance.

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Balancing Nature | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Beginning at an early age, children can use their senses to compare objects and notice similarities and differences. They may notice if two blocks are different colors or different shapes. Children who are a little bit older may notice that rocks can be small or large, smooth or rough, heavy or light.

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Play "Mindy's Wheel of Planets" | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Help your child learn about the planets in this out-of-the-world activity!

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Play "Jet's Solar System Game" | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Fly through the solar system with Jet in this fun board game!

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Make Bite-Sized Planet Pops | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Explore the different planets in our solar system while baking bite-sized replicas with your child. These planet pops taste out of this world!

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Spinning Tops

Tops are one of the oldest toys known to humankind. They are easy to make with common household materials like yogurt cups, bottle caps, pencils, cardboard cutouts and more! Making a top sparks a learner's curiosity and opens up many tinkering opportunities.

Gather recycled materials around your house & try turning them into spinning toys.

The basic elements of a top are: body, axle, and weight. Depending on what you choose for those elements, the shape and size of the top will vary greatly. We think this selection serves as a good starting point to quickly build a simple top and then experiment further.

It is often helpful to keep your first project simple. Making a straightforward top will allow you to experience what it needs to stay balanced, and give you the opportunity to practice spinning it a few times.

Here are some starting materials and elements to make your first top and exeriment with variables and styles. Think outside the box and consider how many different types of top you might be able to make!

Ready to take a deep dive into the world of top making? Check out our Spinning Tops Project page for lots more tips, tricks, techniques, and inspiration!

Spinning Animations

Spinning can be a way to turn static images into apparent motion! There are several variations on this theme that you could explore, from using salad spinners or CDs to create fast motion, to relying on your hands. You can also experiment with the frame rate of video cameras to create interesting motion effects.

Zoetropes rely on slits in a vertical cylinder to work, while phenakistoscopes usually have a short sequence of frames arranged radially on a round disc; a strobing light then creates the illusion. There are several apps for both iOS and Android that allow you to turn your phone into a stroboscope and turn a CD spinning on a marble into an animation device! A thaumatrope is even simpler: just a piece of paper or cardboard with a picture on each side, which gets twirled rapidly to blend the two images together! Pro tip: a drill makes for an excellent way to spin a thaumatrope and experiment with how speed affects the illusion of motion.

Spin art takes advantage of rotational motion to create beautiful arrangements of colors, lines, and shapes. It's very easy to do and can be really messy, or quite tidy depending on the materials used. The basic idea is quite simple: find a way to spin a surface - canvas, paper, cardboard, or foamcore will all do - and then add pigment: you can drip paint or watercolors on it, or use markers, pencils, or even chalk to contain or eliminate the mess. If you're brave or don't mind some spillage, you can also turn the equation around: find a way to spin a marker or brush dipped in some paint, and catch the colors on a surface!

Spinning in Nature

Can you think of things in nature that spin, and use them for inspiration to explore spinning by building and experimenting with various materials?

We are inspired by this exploration of helicopter seeds and what properties makes them spin or fly straight down leading into an exploration of whether it is possible to reproduce that same behavior with craft materials. Can you think of ways to make things that spin when dropped from a height?

Spinning with Technology

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Tops are one of the oldest toys known to humankind. They are easy to make with common household materials like yogurt cups, bottle caps, pencils, cardboard cutouts and more! Making a top sparks a learner's curiosity and opens up many tinkering opportunities. Gather recycled materials around your house & try turning them into spinning toys.