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Insights: Grades 2-3 Sound Student Science Notebook

This module helps students become more aware of the nature of sound and the diversity and abundance of sounds around them. They begin by listening to recorded sounds. They then make their own sounds with their bodies, with drums, and with other instruments--exploring vibration, pitch and volume, and the transmission of sounds.

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Insights: Grades 2-3 Liquids Student Science Notebook

Students explore the unique characteristics of liquids, compare different liquids, and examine how solids and liquids interact with each other. They discover how three liquids--corn syrup, oil, and water--behave when mixed. Students then investigate floating and sinking and some of the variables that affect how solid objects behave in liquids of different densities.

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Insights: Grades 4-5 Bones & Skeletons Student Science Notebook

At the start of this module, students are given a mysterious gray object: an owl pellet. They examine it and find many small bones inside. Three questions, "What are bones?", "Whose bones are they?", and "Where do they come from?" focus the investigations.

Learning experiences that explore human bone groups, teeth, and joints, as well as the skeletons of other animals help students develop an understanding of bone structure and its relationship to function.

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Insights: Grades 4-5 Changes of State Student Science Notebook

In this module, students develop a basis for understanding factors that influence the changes of state of different types of matter. They begin by looking at ice and how it melts. They continue by exploring the evaporation, condensation, freezing, and sublimation of water. They clean water by distilling, and they make their own "mini-freezers."

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Insights: Grades K-1 Myself & Others Student Science Notebook

 

Children look at themselves and their classmates and explore similarities and differences in such characteristics as height, eye color, and hand size. They become aware of how they are similar to those children they may see as different because of a physical characteristic (such as skin color) and how they are different from those children they may otherwise see as similar

This module helps to create a positive, supportive atmosphere in which children can

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Insights: Grades 2-3 Lifting Heavy Things Student Science Notebook

As this module begins, students are asked to think about what it means to make work easier. They then try out experiences and challenges using levers, planes, and pulleys and explore the advantages and disadvantages of each.

At the end of the module, they are challenged to analyze a construction site that has no power and decide which simple machine is most appropriate for each task.

Writing is an integr

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Insights: Grade 6 Structures Student Science Notebook

In this module, students begin to develop an understanding of some of the basic principles that answer the question, "Why do structures stand up?" They look at structures in the school neighborhood, observing the variety in size, shape, material, and function. They build their own structures, using straws, index cards, and other materials.

As they build, students explore some of the basic concepts of standing structures. These include live load, dead load, tension and com

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Insights: Grades K-1 Living Things Teacher's Guide

This module builds on the natural curiosity and excitement young children have for the natural world around them. Throughout the module, they observe changes in a tree; examine the plants and animals living in and around the tree; and look at other living things nearby.

Children think about and discuss the many needs of plants and animals and the interdependence living things have on one another. Using these experiences, children build terrariums in the classroom.<

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Insights: Grade 6 There Is No Away Teacher's Guide

As our population increases, we generate more and more waste materials. In this module, students become aware of what happens to garbage when it is thrown away. They set up controlled experiments that yield information about what happens to organic and inorganic waste; what it means for something to be "biodegradable;" and advantages and disadvantages of various disposal systems.

Throughout the module students are frequently asked "Where is away?" They grow more and more

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Insights: Grades K-1 Myself & Others Teacher's Guide

Children look at themselves and their classmates and explore similarities and differences in such characteristics as height, eye color, and hand size. They become aware of how they are similar to those children they may see as different because of a physical characteristic (such as skin color) and how they are different from those children they may otherwise see as similar

This module helps to create a positive, supportive atmosphere in which children can realize and appr