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The Detective's Notebook Game
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5

Get your students to think about what they are reading. This interactive has students access an amateur detective's notebook to find clues, make inferences, and predict through logical thinking.

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Electric Company
Electric Company: Feel Electric App

Grade Range: PreK-2

This new app helps your students explore emotions. Part of the "Finding the Right Word" initiative, this app offers engaging tolls that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression.

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Mission US:
Flight to Freedom
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8

Part interactive, part choose your own adventure, and all amazing history, Mission US allows your students to immerse themselves in American history like nothing else. The game's structure allows students to take completely different routes and end up completing the game and interpreting history in divergent ways.

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Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts: All About Lizards
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8

Lizards represent a large group of reptiles with thousands of different species. Each lizard has characteristics that help it live and thrive in its particular environment. These activities will enable students to explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics and behavior, and help them identify special characteristics of each lizard that allows it to thrive in its habitat.

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Kitchen Chemistry

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DNA
Extract Your Own DNA

Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Behold your very own DNA in this do-it-yourself science experiment.

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