October 5, 2009

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Science World PowerPoints

This year, Science World is introducing PowerPoint presentations to go along with select feature articles. They are perfect for use on SMART Boards, as well as on your school computer, or as handouts. Click here to download FOSSILS, this year's first PowerPoint presentation, or click here for more information.

Download this issue's Teacher's Edition here. Please note that the answer key has been removed.

Reproducibles from the Teacher's Edition

• ONLINE-ONLY BONUS:
  Origami Pattern: Make a Whale!
• Check for Understanding
• Flu Season (Chart-Reading Skills)
  
• Folding Frenzy (Hands-On Activity)

This issue's Web Extras:

• For more information about the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, visit:
  www.themiamiproject.org
• To find a national wildlife refuge in your state, visit:
  www.fws.gov/refuges
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set up a site to provide the public with the latest information about H1N1 flu:
  www.pandemicflu.gov
• To find out more about the CDC Disease Detective Camp, visit:
  www.cdc.gov/gcc/exhibit/camp.htm
• Want to know more about what the New York/New Jersey Baykeeper is doing to help oysters? Visit:
  www.nynjbaykeeper.org/programs/42
• Check out more scientific origami at:
  www.langorigami.com
  

Article-specific web links from this issue's Teacher's Edition:

•  "Cures From the Field," p. 8
  
• Getting ready for football tryouts? Be sure to check out this site about five ways to avoid sports injuries:
  http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/out/sport_safety.html
• Keep tabs on the Steelers’ Hines and Polamalu with the NFL’s Web site for kids:
  www.nflrush.com
• Want to learn more about platelet-rich plasma therapy? Check out this New York Times article:
  www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/sports/17blood.html
  
  
• "Disease Detectives," p. 12
  
• In 1918, an influenza pandemic caused by a strain of H1N1 virus killed millions of people around the world. Find out about this global health crisis at:
  http://1918.pandemicflu.gov
• Students can test their disease detective skills with this interactive game from Rice University:
  http://medmyst.rice.edu
• Visit this Web site from the National Institutes of Health for lesson plans and activities on infectious diseases:
  http://science.education.nih.gov/customers.nsf/HSDiseases?OpenForm
  
  
• "Oyster Gardeners," p. 16
• Find out more about the importance of estuaries around the U.S. at this interactive Web site. It is full of information, teaching tools, and interactive maps:
  www.estuaries.gov
• Want to learn more about the history of oysters in New York City? Check out Mark Kurlansky’s book The Big Oyster, Random House, 2006.
• Listen to estuary-related Podcasts produced by Florida’s Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve:
  www.rookerybay.org/Podcasts.html
  
  
• "Operation Origami," p. 20
  
• Watch a clip from a new documentary film, Between the Folds, which investigates the beauty of origami and how it relates to math and science:
  www.greenfusefilms.com
• OrigamiUSA is an organization devoted to paper folding. To learn more about origami and the group’s activities in the U.S., visit its Web site:
  www.origami-usa.org
• This site has everything you could ever want to know about origami! Check it out for history, folding patterns, cross-curricular ties, and more:
  www.origami-resource-center.com