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Curricular Companions

Curricular Companions are detailed resources—complete with background content, kit enrichment, interdisciplinary connections, assessment strategies, standards, and more—tailored to the larger science theme encompassing the kit you are teaching. Click on one of the links directly below to access a Curricular Companion.
Human Body Science
Organisms and Their Needs
Plant Growth and Development
Environments, Habitats, and Ecosystems
Energy: Sound, Electricity, and Magnetism
Force and Motion
Material Properties and Change
Models and Designs
Air and Weather
Earth Materials
Our Changing Earth
Environments, Habitats, and Ecosystems
Models and Designs
Energy: Sound, Electricity, and Magnetism
Force and Motion
Material Properties and Change

Kit Matrix

For information tailored specifically to your kit topic, click on the name of the kit in the grid below. You will reach information and educational resources to help you guide research.



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Organisms
Weather
Solids & Liquids
Comparing & Measuring
Life Cycle of Butterflies
Soils
Changes
Balancing & Weighing
Plant Growth & Development
Rocks & Minerals
Chemical Tests
Sound
Animal Studies
Land and Water
Electric Circuits
Motion & Design
Microworlds
Ecosystems
Food Chemistry
Floating & Sinking
Experiments with Plants
Measuring Time
Magnets & Motors
Technology of Paper
Human Body Systems
Catastrophic Events
Properties of Matter
Energy, Machines, & Motion
Organisms--From Macro to Micro
Earth
Light
Electrical Energy and Circuit Design
 
 
Myself and Others
The Senses
Living Things
Balls & Ramps
 
 
 
 
Growing Things
Habitats
Sound
Liquids
Lifting Heavy Things
 
 
 
 
Bones & Skeletons
Reading the Environment
Circuits & Pathways
The Mysterious Powder
Changes of State
 
 
Human Body Systems
There Is No Away
Structures
 
 
Music to my Ears
 
 
Trees
Animals 2x2
Wood and Paper
Fabric
 
New Plants
Insects
Air & Weather
Pebbles, Sand, and Silt
Solids & Liquids
Balance and Motion
 
Structures of Life
Human Body
Water
Earth Materials
Magnetism & Electricity
Physics of Sound
Ideas & Inventions
Measurement
Environments
Food & Nutrition
Landforms
Solar Energy
Levers & Pulleys
Mixtures and Solution
Variables
Models and Designs
Human Brain & Senses
Earth History
Planetary Science
Electronics
Populations & Ecosystems
Diversity of Life
Weather & Water
Force & Motion
Chemistry


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
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