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Get Set 4 Kindergarten
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This amazing guide to school readiness includes four sections that change monthly: kindergarten skills readiness, getting ready to read, health and wellness, and an information printout. Notably, each section includes book and website recommendations.

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Elementary English Language Arts
English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
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01/15/2019
Yana & Egbert: Disappearing Hot Dogs - EP.3
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In “Disappearing Hot Dogs,” Yana thinks picking up her fork makes hot dogs magically disappear.Families are encouraged to play along as she,Egbert, and Izzie discover the surprising (four legged)cause of the disappearing hotdogs—and the difference between confounded evidence and isolating variables.

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Career and Technical Education
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
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Activity/Lab
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Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT
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Yana and Egbert
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01/03/2019
Yana & Egbert: Mystery Box - EP.4
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“Mystery Box” teaches children about experiments. Yana and Egbert explore the distinction between“just guessing” and “hypotheses.” They abandon wild guesses about what is inside a mysterious box when Izzie the Ostrich points out a potential experiment. Can they find out what’s really inside?

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Career and Technical Education
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
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Activity/Lab
Provider:
Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT
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Yana and Egbert
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01/03/2019
Yana & Egbert: Picnic Panic - EP.1
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"Picnic Panic" helps kids understand the difference between rare and common causes. Egbert Finds his picnic ruined. Who did it? They find some hairs at the crime scene and get side-tracked by half remembered stories and scary worries until the learn to focus on common causes rather than rare ones and realize that "things that happen most of the time, cause most of the things that happen."

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Career and Technical Education
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT
Provider Set:
Yana and Egbert
Date Added:
01/03/2019
Yana & Egbert: Sneezing Aardvarks - EP.5
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"Sneezing Aardvarks” begins with two bands of aardvarks fighting over whether white pepper or black pepper is sneezier. Yana and Egbert create a contest to see who is right. Children can see intuitively how randomly distributed differences between groups don’t affect our ability to decide whether systematic differences between groups affect outcomes.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT
Provider Set:
Yana and Egbert
Date Added:
01/03/2019
Yana & Egbert: Suspicious Gumballs - EP.2
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In “Suspicious Gumballs” a string of gum balls all the same color mysteriously fall out of a gum ball machine, and Yana and Egbert discover who’s responsible. This episode encourages families to explore the relationship between samples and populations, and random versus selective sampling processes.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT
Provider Set:
Yana and Egbert
Date Added:
01/03/2019