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Other Items from GEMS Guides
Invisible Universe: The Electromagnetic Spectrum from Radio Waves to Gamma Rays - In this GEMS guide intriguing activities deepen student understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum, enabling students to detect and consider wavelengths other than visible light. 6-8Yrs
Liquid Explorations - In this series of fun and fluid activities, students explore the properties of liquids. 6-8Yrs
Animal Defenses - This unit is an excellent way to introduce biological concepts of predator/prey. 3-5Yrs
Animals In Action - While watching animals in a large classroom corral, the class adds different stimulus objects to the corral environment and observes the animals responses. 11-16Yrs
Convection: A Current Event - Students explore this important physical phenomenon by observing and charting the convection currents in a liquid. 12-14Yrs
Experimenting with Model Rockets - This exciting series of rocketry activities-deliberately crafted to appeal to girls as much as to boys. 12-14Yrs
Height-O-Meters - This guide allow students to determine the height of the school flagpole and compare the heights to which styrofoam and rubber balls can be thrown. 12-14Yrs
Hot Water and Warm Homes from Sunlight - In this unit, students actually build and study model houses and solar home water heaters. 10-14Yrs
Treasure Boxes - In this engaging, innovative series of mathematics activities, children create personal collections of recycled, found, and inexpensive objects and investigate their properties, calling many important science and math skills into play. 3-9Yrs
More than Magnifiers - In this ingenious unit, students use two lenses in different ways to create magnifiers, simple cameras, telescopes, and slide projectors. 12-14Yrs
Oobleck What Do Scientists Do? - One of the all-time most popular GEMS guides, Oobleck makes a joyful scientist out of every child. 10-14Yrs
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