These sites offer some ideas for connecting science learning with endeavors in other content areas.

Investigate and Report on Friction
        On this site, Scholastic's Dirtmeister challenges students to investigate one way that friction works either for or against you as you go about your day, and then write about it. There's a section to report your own findings and read what other students have written.

Language Arts and Simple Machines
        The Rhode Island Teachers and Technology Initiative compiled this list of suggested activities that could connect simple machines study with language arts.

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Create a Butterfly Mobile
        Based on the mobiles and stabiles of artist Alexander Calder, this page intersperses information that helps kids create their own mobile with facts about butterflies. Some of the links of the page have become invalid, but the information is good, and with your help, this could be an enlightening interdisciplinary project.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
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