Pre-K to Grade 2
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Make Your Own Horse Stationery
Why send an email when you can deliver your message on horseback. Add your name and address—and anything else you want to—to these colorful stationery files.
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Horse Gaits Flipbooks: Walk, Trot, and Gallop!
How many hooves of a trotting horse leave the ground at the same time? What about a walking horse or a galloping horse? Find out by making these photographic flipbooks.
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Dress Up a Horse
Throughout time, people have dressed horses in different ways—sometimes for practical reasons, other times to reflect status or wealth. Explore the styles of horse dress from six world cultures.
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Crazy Camouflage
Unlike humans, some animals can instantly change the color or pattern of their skin. Take a hands-on look at how the masters of disguise known as flounders can don several different looks.
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Make Your Own Dino Stationery
Type your notes next to T. rex, send letters via Diatryma, or let Gondwanatitan deliver your message. Just add your name and address to these colorful stationery files.
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Booklist for Educators: Native Americans of the Southwest Coast
Get an insider's view, past and present, of the 19 Indian pueblos of New Mexico. Take a closer look at traditional arts and crafts styles. And find tips and directions for making your own jewelry.
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Petra Book List
Want to learn more about archaeology but don't know where to start? Dig in with this list of books, with titles for both kids and adults.
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Petra Web List
Explore Petra and learn more about archaeology with this Web list for kids and adults.
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Taste a Smell Test
It's not just the taste buds in your mouth that let you taste sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and other flavors. Take the Jellybean Test to find out how your nose helps you taste.
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Test Your Reaction!
In a game like dodge ball, how is it that your brain is able to tell you to raise your arm and block an incoming ball with your elbow? Find out with this simple experiment.
