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Slime
Learn about slime and polymers with a recipe to make your own slime. If you
truly love all things slime, you'll want to check out the online version of
Slime Games.
Choose from slime volleyball, slime World Cup soccer and cricket slime. Want
to know more about slime and how it defies Newton's law? Check out
the page that
dripped sllime. You'll learn about viscosity, non-Newtonian fluid,
rheopectic and thixotropic. You can even view a
video
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Big Bugs
Using entomology to study big bugs, like the giant water bug, Dobson fly,
Hornworm, Cecropia caterpillar and the Imperial moth. If you get a chance,
you'll want to visit the
Morton Arboretum and check out their larger than life big bug exhibit.
You can find out about upcoming bug events and become a bug detective. Want
to teach your kids about big bugs? Grab
Curr Click's unit
study called the Insect Combo Set. Learn about spiders, bees, bugs
and butterflies. |
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Snot
Ooey and gooey, snot and runny noses can get pretty disgusting, but every living
human being has to deal with these issues at one time or another. Athletes
often have a problem because of workouts in cold weather and runny noses. Article
fully describes mucus, snot and boogers. Even has a recipe to help you make
fake snot. Then, hope over to the free game
Snot Put
for some gross fun. Grab a kleenex and learn all about snot. |
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The Yuckiest
Site on the Internet
Site covers all things gross and disgusting. Delve into belching, mud,
worms, bugs and more. Learn all about your gross and cool body.and your
endocrine system. Visit
Roach
World to learn all about these disgusting but fascinating bugs. Find
tons of
games centered around yucky fun. The site even offers yucky polls where
you can cast your vote. |
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Gross and Gruesome Goodies
It's time to get in the kitchen and start cooking up some disgusting but
tasty goodies. Cook up some vomit on toast, slushy slurp, earwax snacks, and
old bandages. Shrek is a favorite character with kids everywhere, but you
can hardly argue that he has some disgusting habits. Bring those habits to
life by throwing your child a
Shrek birthday party. Includes snack foods, decorations, activities and
party invitation ideas. |
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Barfing
Visit the KidzWorld Puke Parade. Find out the different names for puke and
what exactly vomit is. Every living thing pukes. You may have even seen the
picture of a barfing pumpkin at Halloween. Even delves into information
about the color of puke, why we puke and how we puke. Take a poll on the
worst food to throw back up. Kidz Health explains what puke is and what
tossing your cookies is all about in a story about Jordan getting sick
to his stomach and losing his lunch. |
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Worms
Worms are wriggly, muddy and downright gross. Some words can be severed in
half and still live or grow back parts even. Did you know there are about
one million different species of worms. Find out about their classification
and characteristics. You can even learn about
worm casts,
which are structures created by worms in soils and sand. Or become a
worm
charmer (also known as worm grunting and worm fiddling) by learning how to coax worms out of the ground.
Then go read about the adventures of
Herman the
Worm. |
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Dissect a
Virtual Frog
Offers both an
original
version from 1994 where you can virtually dissect a frog and a newer
updated version of the same virtual dissection,
this one from 2002. Read about why to dissect a frog and then click on the
learning resources tab to link to other sites about frog anatomy and
dissection. You can read what requirements there are to use the site and
then begin your virtual dissection. The site will take you through images,
movies, texts, and interactive exercises. |
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Infection Protection Detection
The American Museum of Natural History offers a site to teach kids all about
infections and how to detect and prevent them. Start with
Meet
the Microbes, and find out how super smart they are and how they can
mutate and multiply in mere minutes. Find out too about Bacteria in the
Cafeteria, all about infection, read a story about how Lou Got the Flu, play
Amazing Microbe Hunters, solve the Mixed-Up Microbe Mystery and finish up at
the Prevention Convention. |
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AirJunk
There are so many disgusting things floating in the air and just waiting to
enter our noses. Have you ever seen dust mites when the sun shines through
the window? Find out how to
make airborne junk detectors. Then, follow the running nose (little
graphic of nose with legs running at a fast speed) to answer questions about
what you found from the detectors. The nose then travels to images of air
junk up close. See pictures of mold, dust, pollen, dandruff and skin flakes.
Yuck! |
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