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Inspire Simple STEAM Exploration
Inspire Simple STEAM Exploration
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Inspire Simple STEAM Exploration
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.
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Inspire Simple STEAM Exploration
Inspire Simple STEAM Exploration
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Inspire Simple STEAM Exploration
Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Make a Pulley
Make a Pulley
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Make a Pulley
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.
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Make a Pulley
Make a Pulley
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Make a Pulley
Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Balancing Rocks: A Wobbly Game
Balancing Rocks: A Wobbly Game
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Balancing Rocks: A Wobbly Game
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.
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Balancing Rocks: A Wobbly Game
Balancing Rocks: A Wobbly Game
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Balancing Rocks: A Wobbly Game
Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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What is a Wedge?
What is a Wedge?
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What is a Wedge?
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.
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What is a Wedge?
What is a Wedge?
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What is a Wedge?
What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Heat Transfer Experiment
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Heat Transfer Experiment
Second Grade
Measurement
This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.
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Heat Transfer Experiment
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Heat Transfer Experiment
This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.
Second Grade
Measurement
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Taste Experiment
Taste Experiment
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Taste Experiment
Kindergarten
Life Science
Sometimes your senses can play tricks on you. Experiment with your sense of taste and your sense of smell with this simple experiment!
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Taste Experiment
Taste Experiment
Worksheet
Taste Experiment
Sometimes your senses can play tricks on you. Experiment with your sense of taste and your sense of smell with this simple experiment!
Kindergarten
Life Science
Worksheet
Watching Birds at a Sit Spot
Watching Birds at a Sit Spot
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Watching Birds at a Sit Spot
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.
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Watching Birds at a Sit Spot
Watching Birds at a Sit Spot
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Watching Birds at a Sit Spot
Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Have a Magnet Marathon!
Have a Magnet Marathon!
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Have a Magnet Marathon!
Kindergarten
Life Science
Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.
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Have a Magnet Marathon!
Have a Magnet Marathon!
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Have a Magnet Marathon!
Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Cloud Observation
Cloud Observation
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Cloud Observation
Kindergarten
Writing
Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.
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Cloud Observation
Cloud Observation
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Cloud Observation
Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.
Kindergarten
Writing
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Heating Sugar
Heating Sugar
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Heating Sugar
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!
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Heating Sugar
Heating Sugar
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Heating Sugar
Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Make Your Own Ant Farm
Make Your Own Ant Farm
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Make Your Own Ant Farm
First Grade
Measurement
For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.
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Make Your Own Ant Farm
Make Your Own Ant Farm
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Make Your Own Ant Farm
For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.
First Grade
Measurement
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Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars
Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars
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Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars
Kindergarten
Life Science
This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.
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Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars
Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars
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Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars
This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Halloween STEM Building Challenge
Halloween STEM Building Challenge
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Halloween STEM Building Challenge
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.
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Halloween STEM Building Challenge
Halloween STEM Building Challenge
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Halloween STEM Building Challenge
The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Water Soluble Science
Water Soluble Science
Lesson Plan
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Water Soluble Science
First Grade
Physical Science
Your students will enjoy this hands on lesson where they make simple solutions and mixtures. They will have an opportunity to predict and observe solids that dissolve in water.
Lesson Plan
Water Soluble Science
Water Soluble Science
Lesson Plan
Water Soluble Science
Your students will enjoy this hands on lesson where they make simple solutions and mixtures. They will have an opportunity to predict and observe solids that dissolve in water.
First Grade
Physical Science
Lesson Plan
What Is an Algorithm?
What Is an Algorithm?
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What Is an Algorithm?
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this lesson, students will learn to create a simple algorithm using block code. The platform used for this activity is a website created by Google that provides free educational games that teach students to program using block code.
Lesson Plan
What Is an Algorithm?
What Is an Algorithm?
Lesson Plan
What Is an Algorithm?
In this lesson, students will learn to create a simple algorithm using block code. The platform used for this activity is a website created by Google that provides free educational games that teach students to program using block code.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Lesson Plan
The Single Fixed Pulley System
The Single Fixed Pulley System
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The Single Fixed Pulley System
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.
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The Single Fixed Pulley System
The Single Fixed Pulley System
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The Single Fixed Pulley System
Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Make a Geoboard!
Make a Geoboard!
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Make a Geoboard!
Kindergarten
Geometry
This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.
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Make a Geoboard!
Make a Geoboard!
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Make a Geoboard!
This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns
Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns
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Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.
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Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns
Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns
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Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns
In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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How A Kazoo Makes Sounds
How A Kazoo Makes Sounds
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How A Kazoo Makes Sounds
Second Grade
Physical Science
How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.
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How A Kazoo Makes Sounds
How A Kazoo Makes Sounds
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How A Kazoo Makes Sounds
How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.
Second Grade
Physical Science
Activity
Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons
Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons
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Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.
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Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons
Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons
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Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons
This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Gravitational Forces for Preschoolers
Gravitational Forces for Preschoolers
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Gravitational Forces for Preschoolers
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.
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Gravitational Forces for Preschoolers
Gravitational Forces for Preschoolers
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Gravitational Forces for Preschoolers
This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World
Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World
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Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.
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Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World
Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World
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Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World
In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Color Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World
Color Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World
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Color Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.
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Color Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World
Color Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World
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Color Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World
In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Halloween Potions
Halloween Potions
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Halloween Potions
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.
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Halloween Potions
Halloween Potions
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Halloween Potions
Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Optical Illusions
Optical Illusions
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Optical Illusions
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.
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Optical Illusions
Optical Illusions
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Optical Illusions
Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Does Time Really Pass By Faster When You're Having Fun?
Does Time Really Pass By Faster When You're Having Fun?
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Does Time Really Pass By Faster When You're Having Fun?
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.
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Does Time Really Pass By Faster When You're Having Fun?
Does Time Really Pass By Faster When You're Having Fun?
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Does Time Really Pass By Faster When You're Having Fun?
This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Dig This: Biodegradation
Dig This: Biodegradation
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Dig This: Biodegradation
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.
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Dig This: Biodegradation
Dig This: Biodegradation
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Dig This: Biodegradation
How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Easy Rhyming Words
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Easy Rhyming Words
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.
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Easy Rhyming Words
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Easy Rhyming Words
It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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How to Make Peanut Butter
How to Make Peanut Butter
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How to Make Peanut Butter
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!
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How to Make Peanut Butter
How to Make Peanut Butter
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How to Make Peanut Butter
Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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