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1.	21st Century Afterschool Project (CASP) Though developed for New Jersey afterschool providers, and aligned to the NJ science-and-technology standards' core ...
2.	4-H Wildlife Stewards 4-H Wildlife Stewards develops students' scientific perspectives through interaction with the natural world. The program is a ...
3.	After-School Science PLUS —Activity Guide and Planning Guide With features like bilingual materials and biographies of diverse scientists, this program builds the science skills of girls ...
4.	Afterschool Explorations in Science (AXIS) This workbook-supported set of materials designed for use after school covers six themes, is available in English and Spanish, ...
5.	Afterschool Universe Reviewers agree that "Afterschool Universe" takes a serious and cosmically complex field of science and explores it in a way ...
6.	APEX Science These materials include activities that give students the chance to explore eight separate topics through (at least) four ...
7.	Astrobiology: Afterschool Life in the Universe TERC, a Boston educational developer renown for science, math and technology curricula and research has created this rich ...
8.	Astrobiology: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool Astrobiology is a highly engaging eight-part set of activities created by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and ...
9.	Bottle Biology: The TerraAqua Column Bottle Biology's year's worth of activities, designed to be built and carried out inside 2 liter soda bottles, use ...
10.	Bubble Festival In this Bubble Festival set of eight core (and four extension) activities the unmistakable focus is on “fun” as a ...
11.	Build IT Build IT engages girls in the fields of science and information technology (IT) in order to develop their IT fluency and ...
12.	Camp and Club Science Sourcebook: Activities and Leader Planning Guide for Science Outside School An easy to read and content rich book filled with information to assist in every step of the process of establishing and ...
13.	Camp in a Can Insect Adventures Camp in a Can provides a pre-packaged kit with materials, activity and instructors guides and a DVD (with comprehensive ...
14.	Celebrate Urban Birds/Project Pigeon Watch At the Celebrate Urban Birds website at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, you will find a flexible set of materials, ...
15.	Club Invention This research-based curriculum immerses groups of students in a series of realistic problem-solving scenarios in which they ...
16.	Design and Discovery Intel and the Girl Scouts of America have teamed up to develop Design and Discovery, a program that endeavors to appeal to ...
17.	Design It! Engineering in After School Programs Design It! is a field-tested, engineering-focused afterschool curriculum in which students build simple models of familiar ...
18.	DragonflyTV DragonflyTV is a science education program produced by Twin Cities Public Television for children aged 9-12. It is both a ...
19.	EarthBox The EarthBox materials are available with several options, but the basic product is a kit with a self-contained growing system ...
20.	Environmental Detectives For an afterschool program with consistent attendance and enough class time each week, Environmental Detectives will teach ...
21.	Exploratorium Afterschool Activities San Francisco's Exploratorium museum has accumulated much recognition since its creation in 1969. Its niche is to bolster ...
22.	Explore It! Science Investigations in Out-of-School Programs Explore It! was developed by the Education Development Center with funding from the National Science Foundation. It is highly ...
23.	Family ASTRO Students become scientists with these kits' innovative, conceptual activities that teach astronomy without the factoids or ...
24.	Family Math Designed to foster a home-school connection, Family Math involves students in activities that are cross-disciplinary and ...
25.	Family Science Family Science facilitates cooperative, hands-on activities and discussions that give students a chance to interact with ...
26.	Fetch! This PBS Go Kids! broadcast/website package is an effort to "break the mold" for science shows appropriate for 6 to ...
27.	Field Trip to the Moon As you'd expect, this collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History and NASA includes great content. A user ...
28.	Garden Mosaics Designed for use with kids in middle school and above, Garden Mosaics is well designed for afterschool programs located near ...
29.	GEMS Paper Towel Testing This unit is part of the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) set of informal science instructional guides. Like the ...
30.	Kinetic City Kinetic City: Mission to Vearth: Kinetic City provides an interesting and coherent set of science activities structured ...
31.	Math and Science Across Cultures, from the Exploratorium By teaching through the lenses of different cultures, this book makes math and science relevant to students of all ...
32.	Mindstorms for Schools (LEGO) Using Mindstorms for Schools, one of the only programs of its kind for classroom use, student groups use computers to program ...
33.	Mission Discovery Mission Discovery's horticulture unit is a traditional discussion-and-lab curriculum that aims to kindle interest in an ...
34.	NASA Educators Guides This web-based set of educator's guides varies widely in style and quality. The guides masterfully incorporate exposure to the ...
35.	Operation SMART Girls Inc.'s Operation SMART is a set of activities and staff training guides developed to help afterschool programs empower ...
36.	PCS Edventures (Academy of Robotics reviewed, multiple kits offered) PCS Edventures has developed after-school learning labs for students in grades preK-12 that combine a variety of hands-on ...
37.	Science Court Explorations - Tom Snyder Productions (Scholastic) Science Court Explorations: Pendulum: In this curriculum, which combines a multimedia CD-ROM with hands-on activities, ...
38.	Science is Cool This guide was designed to support educators as they strive to develop an afterschool science program. Offering a positive ...
39.	Science Sensors Activity Kit: Hot or Not This well-designed set of experiments lets kids 'see' changes in temperature through the use of liquid crystal thermometers. ...
40.	Science Sensors Activity Kit: Tune Up These activities use tuning forks to teach kids (and adults) about the relationship between vibration, energy, and waves. ...
41.	Square Wheels and Other Easy-To-Build, Hands-on Science Activities Square Wheels is a guide to constructing and understanding new and classic science demonstrations, using easy-to-get supplies. ...
42.	Strive to Thrive Activity Handbooks This review is for the series of five booklets noted below. Individually, they sell for around $10. These materials are great ...
43.	Sunflower/Girasol Sunflower/Girasol is a set of activity-based bilingual (Spanish/English) materials that focus on students in grades two to ...
44.	Techbridge Techbridge offers science, engineering, and technology, as well as mentorship, involving girls in hands-on scientific ...
45.	The Brain Explorer—Puzzles, Riddles, Illusions, and other Mental Adventures Using just pencil and paper, these 'mental adventures' present puzzles and exercises designed to expand memory, perception, ...
46.	The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure—Activities for the Elementary Classroom Students use simple building materials to learn big ideas in physics in this program that stresses exploration and links ...
47.	The Private Eye®: (5X) Looking/Thinking by Analogy Private Eye encourages students and teachers to work side-by-side as they investigate the world with a jeweler's loupe. ...
48.	The Science Explorer —Family Science Experiments from the World's Favorite Hands-On Museum Designed for use by parents and young children, this book has been extensively tested to make it easy to use and highly ...
49.	The Youth Experiences in Science Project (YES) from 4-H The YES binder includes a series of activities that are interesting and offer younger students a chance to experiment with ...
50.	Wonderwise: Women in Science Learning Series Wonderwise provides a great motivational boost for kids (especially girls) who might harbor doubts that they could, someday, ...
51.	ZOOMsci Designed to support instructors implementing the (150) science experiments presented on the PBS youth-run, hands-on television ...