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Skills Overview.(science)(Brief Article)

Science Matters: Plants, Sounds, Seasons and Night Sky, a Weekly Reader publication

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Students learn to

* model the cloth-making and coloring processes;

* compare the absorbency of cotton with the absorbency of other fabrics, and record the results;

* observe how sounds are made and how sound travels;

* observe how sounds change;

* observe the difference in temperature between water and soil and ...

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