Flying Butterfly

Materials Butterfly Templates (found below) Tape (transparent or masking) Double Stick Tape or Glue Bakers Twine or similar string Large Craft Sticks (also known as tongue depressors) Plastic Drinking Straws Markers or Crayons or Colored Pencils Pushpins Scissors Key Question How do friction and gravity help the Flying Butterfly toy work? Learning Objectives Young scientists…

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Right the Ribeter Engineering Journal

Use this journal along with plastic frogs and the slide deck below to introduce your students to the engineering design process. Two versions of the journals are provided. The only difference is one is more compact than the other but they are otherwise the same. Click on image above to access teacher Google slide deck.…

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A Frog Swamp Mystery Science Journal

This journal will help you engage students with the nature of data collection and making claims based on evidence. Below you will find the teacher slide deck for A Frog Swamp Mystery along with two versions of the journal. One is more compact than the other but they are otherwise the same. Click on image…

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Identity Safe Classrooms

Identity safe classrooms are created by an infinite number of teaching strategies. No one strategy is sufficient to create an identity safe classroom, but a constellation of strategies, working together, can. Teachers need to start somewhere. At the end of each chapter in their books (Identity Safe Classrooms Grades K-5: Places to Belong and Learn…

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