Science

Science (X) - Elementary (X)

Cardline: Animals

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Cardline: Animals is a card game played with approximately 100 cards. Both sides of each card depict an animal, its name, and its class (amphibian, mammal, etc.), while its average length, weight, and lifespan are printed on only one side of the card.

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Elementary
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High
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Science
Play Time: 
15 min.
Cardline: Animals

Simple Machines

There are spare robot parts all over the Museum. It's the job of Twitch (up there, in red) to go and collect them. It won't be easy, and that's the problem: our adorable-but-lazy friend likes things easier. It's up to you and Twitch to use found objects to create simple machines, devices that will help him solve challenges with a minimum of force, collect the parts and stay out of trouble.

Space Force

Find space treasure with physics! As a member of the starship Copernicus, you’ll use force, motion, and mass to recover lost riches.

When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

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Copies: 6

Earthquakes,
volcanoes,
tsunamis.
Headline-making natural disasters with devastating consequences for millions of people. But what do we actually know about these literally earth-shaking events?

New York Times bestselling author, explorer, journalist, and geologist Simon Winchester—who’s been shaken by earthquakes in New Zealand, skied through Greenland to help prove the theory of plate tectonics, and even charred the soles of his boots climbing a volcano—looks at the science, technology, and societal impact of these inter-connected natural phenomena.

When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

What Happens to a Hamburger?

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Copies: 1

What happens to food after you eat it?
In this newly illustrated book, complete with photos, Paul Showers and Edward Miller take you on a journey through the human digestive system into the mouth, down the gullet, into the stomach, and finally into the small and large intestines. You will learn what each of these body parts does to help transform the food you eat. And you will also find out what happens to the food your body cannot use.

Everything that happens inside your body whenever you swallow a bite of food will amaze you!

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520L
What Happens to a Hamburger?

To Scale: The Solar System (2015)

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On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh

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Primary
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:07
To Scale: The Solar System

How Nothing Became Everything: The Mystery of Life

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Copies: 6

How did nonliving atoms evolve into modern people? Find out in this engaging illustrated exploration of how nothing became everything.

The science of evolution is a topic of utmost importance, especially as the focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education continues to increase. Fortunately, important doesn’t have to mean boring. From explaining how scientists discovered how life began on earth to speculating about whether space aliens are carnivores, this engaging investigation of all things evolution is infused with fun as well as facts.

How Nothing Became Everything: The Mystery of Life

Smart and Spineless: Exploring Invertebrate Intelligence

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Copies: 6

Wise old owls? Problem-solving dolphins? Maybe you have heard of Koko the gorilla, who has mastered one thousand signs in American Sign Language, or Chaser the border collie, who recognizes one thousand names for her stuffed toys.

But what about ants building megacolonies or bees reporting to the hive about new nesting sites? What about escape artist octopuses and jellyfish that use their eyes (they have twenty-four!) to navigate? Are insects, spiders, and other animals without backbones considered smart, too?

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Smart and Spineless: Exploring Invertebrate Intelligence

littleBits Challenge Kits

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littleBits is an award-winning modular electronics platform that has put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone. Just snap them together—no soldering, programming, or wiring needed.

Please ensure that all components are included when returning kit.

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littleBits Challenge Kits

LightUp Electricity Kit

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Learn about electronics and programming with this circuitry kit. Build circuits in seconds with these magnetically snap-together blocks. Use the FREE iPad app to take a picture of your project and it will help you see how it works, and will help with the next steps. You can also program the Microcontroller using Codebender.

This Curriculum Kit includes:

  • 2 Edison Kits
  • 2 Tesla Kits
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LightUp Electricity Kit

Inside Biosphere 2

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Copies: 6

Biosphere 2 was built nearly thirty years ago to develop technologies for human living in space and on other worlds. Eight biospherians survived sealed inside the engineered ecosystem for two years. The results of the mission were mixed, but they definitely succeeded in constructing a research facility like none other in the world.

Lexile: 
1060L
Inside Biosphere 2

Breakthrough: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

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Copies: 6

On a cold day in November 1944, eighteen-month-old Eileen Saxon was brought into an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She could barely breathe, and he lips and fingertips had turned a dusky blue, the result of a heart condition known as blue baby syndrome. Most doctors who had seen her expected her to die within hours.

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1170L
Breakthrough: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs

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Despite being completely nonfiction, this title reads with all the suspense and mystery of any great novel. The story begins in 1996, when Karen Lips travels to a high mountain forest in Panama to study the golden frogs that live there. Upon discovering a large amount of dead frogs, Karen collects a few of them and later learns that a fungus is to blame for the frogs' death. Over the next decade, Project Golden Frog is launched and put into motion in order to collect and protect Panama's golden frogs until the fungus can be understood and controlled.

The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs

Lightning, hurricanes, and blizzards

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Explains how storms form, where they strike, and what makes them so powerful. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Lightning, hurricanes, and blizzards

What do you know about animal adaptations?

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Uses a question and answer format to teach young readers about animal adaptations such as hibernation, migration, camouflage, underground hiding, and the use of their poisonous toxins.

What do you know about animal adaptations?

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