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Extreme science gets the grade.


How do you make science truly exciting? How about dropping a junked junk 1  
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 car from a crane to teach about gravity and acceleration? An effort by the Delaware Science Coalition to bring hands-on, high-interest science to all grades is showing results on high-stake tests and teachers are on board. When the kids build and race cardboard Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product. Paperboard

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 boats (while learning buoyancy buoyancy (boi`ənsē, b`yən–), upward force exerted by a fluid on any body immersed in it. Buoyant force can be explained in terms of Archimedes' principle.  and density), says teacher Mark Feil, "ninety percent of the class got an A. I'll never teach the old way again."
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Title Annotation:NEWS to KNOW
Publication:Instructor (1990)
Date:Jan 1, 2007
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