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Register your class for this measuring challenge and analyze the online results! Students can design their own way to measure and then evaluate and analyze their results. This can be easily be added to your Family Science or Math Night!
http://scithon.terc.edu/howtall/index.cfm
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This site has two excellent exploration activities. There is also a link entitled Astronauts Living in Space, on which students can access aerospace scientists' biographies and descriptions of career options.
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
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FunBrain will show you a ruler with a red bar above it. Click on the length of the red bar and see if your answer is correct. This online quiz can be taken using centimeters or inches and has various levels of difficulty.
http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/measure/
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The page has various activities regarding the Moon and Earth and gives extensive facts about the Moon. There is a page dedicated to the Apollo astronauts and an explanation of what protected them from meteoroids while they were on the Moon.
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/cs_earth.shtml
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In this page there is an interactive balance that allows students to explore how a balance works and how moving the fulcrum will affect how the balance reads. The main characters are a skinny cat and a fat cat and how they related on the balance.
http://www.mathcats.com/explore/balance/balance.html
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Use these printable rulers for students to take home or keep in their science notebooks. The rulers come in various styles, including a one-foot ruler marked with centimeters and inches, color square rules with inches and centimeters marked as squares of color, and even rulers with no markings on them.
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/paper_rulers/
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Your kids will be amazed when they see a slice of potato mysteriously float in the exact center of a glass of water. It is not magic; it is an investigation in density. Be sure to check out Liquid Rainbow, a great extension/assessment activity.
http://www.mcrel.org/whelmers/whelm49.asp
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How Can Matter Be Measured?
Matter can exist in different states - liquids, solids, and gases. We use many different tools to measure the properties of matter. Use these web pages to find answers to your questions.
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