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Plant a Garden

Get your hands dirty and plant a garden. Use these links to find out how to get started.

A Seed is a Baby Plant in a Lunchbox
Grow a Bean Buddy
Growing Orchids at Home
Plant a Garden
Plant Fact Sheet

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Government Sites

Energy Kid's Page - Energy facts, history, and games. Check it out.

Fermilab For Students - Fermilab is home to the world's most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron. Learn how scientists use Fermilab's resources to explore the most basic particles and forces of nature.

Minerals Management Service - Kids' Pages - The Minerals Management Service (MMS) is the Federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources. This site links to great pages about energy, the ocean and math.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Students' Corner - Nuclear energy is a way to generate heat using the fission process of atoms. A nuclear power plant converts the heat into electricity. Learn more about nuclear reactors, radiation, terms, and more.

Roofus' Solar and Efficient Neighborhood - Find out how Roofus' Solar Home is energy smart and what makes it run.

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Other Resources

BrainPop - Science - BrainPOP's has animated movies created to explain the world around us in an engaging way. There are some FREE movies, but most you have to subscribe to. Kids, make sure to talk this over with your parents.

Exploring the Science of Light - Has experiments and games to help kids learn about light.

Science in Action - Highlights - Try simple science experiments and read the science question of the week.

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