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This September 12th is Grandparents’ Day, and what better way to get students ready for this special occasion than a lesson from their favorite gang at Fuddlebrook! A grandparent is a little bit parent, teacher, and best friend, so who better to learn with than grandparents? A Family Visit: A Story About Similarities and Differences Between Parents and Offspring is …
This month we celebrate the 100th birthday of world-renowned scientist Francis Crick. Crick was born on June 8, 1916 in Northhampton, England. As a child, he was extremely inquisitive and read any book he could get his hands on. He found books on science topics the most interesting, which led to many “kitchen-experiments” as a child. As a teenager his …
There’s no one like you! Materials • Two pieces of red licorice (Twizzler®) • Four toothpicks • Two mini pink marshmallows • Two mini yellow marshmallows • Two mini orange marshmallows • Two mini green marshmallows • Index card • Marker Objective: To demonstrate how chemical bases are paired in DNA Procedure: There are four chemical bases in DNA: Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), and Thymine (T). …