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Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
Postcard Creator
Grades
K - 8
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Postcard Creator

The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.

Book Cover Creator
Grades
K - 8
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Book Cover Creator

The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

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