A Great Website for Playing and Learning
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http://www.smm.org The Science Museum of Minnesota has some great links for kids to learn science.
http://www.smm.org/catal is the part of the site where kids can explore an archaeological dig in Turkey and participate in all kinds of activities.
Parent-Teacher Conferences
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Call Daneen (530 692 2210) to reserve a time to meet with your child’s teacher! Conferences are being scheduled for Monday through Friday, November 17th through November 21st. Make sure to get up-to-date information about your child’s progress before the Thanksgiving Break (week of November 24-28).
Reserve Your YESCA T-Shirts and Sweatshirts!
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Call or email your YESCA PTSA Representatives to purchase your beautiful new YESCA tee-shirts and sweatshirts!
Catalysis and chemistry experiments for kids (science fair)?
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I would like to ask if anybody has some suggestions for catalysis experiments for kids, namely with activated carbon. Does it adsorb for example some colored compoud of water or so? Or alternatively could you suggest a website where I can find suitable information? Thank you!
i don’t know why you specifically want the experament to do with carbon, but i’m sure you can find what you want here: www.all-science-fair-projects.com
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Science activities for kids 3-4?
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when i taught preschool, i remember a lesson that went really well and the kids got the concept of inertia. you need a plastic cup (the see through ones work best). take the cup and place a playing card on top. on top of the playing card, place a penny in the middle. flick the card so it shoots horizontally off of the cup. the penny should fall into the cup. (please flick the card away from any students)…the flicking part does take a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, your penny should fall right in. after i did the activity i taught them the word inertia in very basic terms. other activities that is good for that age is sink or float. this will help you teach mass and density. you can use classroom objects that are similar in size and then discuss why some float and others sink. an activity i’ve done with 5th graders (and it could be done younger) was take two plastic pitchers and filled them with the same amount of water (leaving a few inches at the top). place a diet pepsi in one and a regular pepsi in the other. the diet pepsi will float and the regular pepsi will sink.
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I need to raise money for my non-profit environmental education organization ideas?
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there are several fund raising activities options. 1. get a company to sponsor your organization, choose ones who have environmental CSR programs or advocacies. 2. send direct mail letters to individuals who are willing to support your cause. 3. conduct events such as concerts or dinners where you can get sponsors and raise enough money for your organization. remember to set a target amount of what you need to raise so that you can customize your activities depending on the amount targeted. Best of luck!
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Environmental Education for Young Children?
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Does anyone have good resources for environmental education for the younger grades (k - 8th grades)? I am on the lookout for tried & true resources that are easily translatable (or already translated) into Romanian.
there are quite a few romanian websites where teachers share their ideas - http://www.didactic.ro/ it’s a good place to start. you could also google for “sugestii educatia mediului inconjurator” or “protejarea mediului inconjurator clasa”.
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Do science museums, specifically ones aimed at kids, actually increase interest in science?
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Do these kinds of musuems, say the liberty science center in new jersey for example, actually encourage kids to learn more about science, or even teach kids anything? Or are they just indoor amusement parks? Do more traditional yet dry museums do a better or worse job of getting kids interested in science? You all make good points but you have to ask would you have still been interested in science without the museum, or along the same lines, did you fall in love with the museum because you love science?
In my case, museums didn’t make a difference. All it took were three good teachers for math, physics and chemistry.
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What is a good website to find kids science expirements?
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they need to be easy with household items
I love www.howstuffworks.com. Under “science stuff” you can search for things and often find fun experiments along the way. It is a great tool for learning. example: in “How Compasses Work”, there is a easy step by step instruction on how to make your own compass using a bowl of water, a piece of styrofoam, and a needle.
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I have to do an Environmental Education Project on any one serious Environmental Problem. Any suggestions?
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I was thinking of going for Global Warming, but I thought that it would be better to try something that everyone else won't choose. It's a 10th grade Board Exam project and I thought that it would be better to choose some other topic that is important in terms of the environment, interesting, and also easy to look up on the internet. Any suggestions would be appreciated. It would also be nice if you could tell me any sites where I could find info on the topic.
The first thing that comes to mind is something that every animal human and plant on this planet need and that is water.
My suggestion is to do it on water pollution and how it is affecting basically everything. Also explain how we have contributed to this problem.
Easy to look up on the net this is, and if you just Google water polution you will get over a million sites on the topic.
I hope this helps.
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