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Colorful science lessons.


Science comes to life when children explore scientific principles and transform abstract ideas into tangible models or illustrate scientific realities. When your class is studying the life sciences, Earth science or physical science, creating visual models makes the lessons more concrete. Find the step-by-step instructions for these lessons at www.crayola.com/colorfullearning

Birth of Islands Students research how islands are formed, then build models of different kinds of islands to demonstrate what they've learned.

Dogsled Adventure

Dogs are more than playful pets. Students research dog sledding and the Iditarod competition, then they build their own model dog sled teams, as they learn about life in Alaska.

Hot Air Balloon This article is about hot air balloons themselves. For the associated activity, see Hot air ballooning.

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology, dating back to its invention by the Montgolfier brothers in Annonay,
 

Let your students' creativity soar as they use problem-solving skills and recycled materials to build hot air balloon replicas.

Let Me Out Dino Eggs Dino Eggs is a 1983 computer platform game by MicroFun. It was released for the Apple II and Commodore 64. Description
Playing a time traveller, Time Master Tim, the player's objective is to collect dinosaur eggs and rescue baby dinosaurs while avoiding snakes,
 

Dinosaurs fascinate young children. Build upon their natural curiosity and teach characteristics of reptiles reptiles

terrestrial or aquatic vertebrates which breathe air through lungs and have a skin covering of horny scales. They are poikilothermic, oviparous or ovoviviparous, and, if they have legs they are short and constructed solely for crawling.
. What's hatching out of that egg, a bird, dinosaur, turtle or alligator alligator, large aquatic reptile of the genus Alligator, in the same order as the crocodile. There are two species—a large type found in the S United States and a small type found in E China. Alligators differ from crocodiles in several ways. ?

Pet Vet

Careers in science are important to individuals and society. Ask children to picture themselves as pet vets, medical researchers, inventors or in other science-related careers.

Sunken sunk·en  
v. Obsolete
A past participle of sink.

adj.
1. Depressed, fallen in, or hollowed: sunken cheeks.

2.
 Treasures

Explore the mysteries at the bottom of the sea. Students research ocean organisms and lost treasures Lost Treasure is an American magazine, found both online and in print, which describes lost treasures and different methods and items used finding them. Examples are lost mines, and valuables lost through wars, theft, or forgetfulness.  that lie beneath the ocean depths. Discover nature's deepest mysteries.

Underwater Explorer

Students design their own underwater exploration inventions using recycled materials, consider basic scientific principles, properties of materials, nd construction techniques in designing and constructing the inventions.
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