December 7, 2009
NEW! 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 for more information.
- Download this issue's "States of Matter" PowerPoint
(use with "Secrets of a Snowflake," p. 10) - Print a guided worksheet to aid comprehension and teach note-taking skills
Download this issue's Teacher's Edition here. Please note that the answer key has been removed.
Reproducibles from the Teacher's Edition
- Science News (Reading Comprehension)
- Check for Understanding (Reading Comprehension)
- Endangered in the Everglades (Chart-Reading Skills)
- What Do You Want to Know? (Critical-Thinking Skills)
This issue's Web Extras:
VideoExtra
Click on the following links to watch videos of the songs from the new They Might Be Giants album, Here Comes Science:
- www.theymightbegiants.com/news/just-added-todays-video-is-roy-gbiv
- www.theymightbegiants.com/news/electric-car-video-flips-to-odometer-100000-youtube-views
- www.theymightbegiants.com/news/just-up-new-video-i-am-apaleontologist-on-youtube
- For more information about the Everglades and ongoing restoration projects, visit:
www.evergaldesplan.org - To learn how to take part in the Global Snowflake Network, visit:
http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov/how - For more Science Explorations content, visit:
www.scholastic.com/scienceexplorations
Article-specific web links from this issue's Teacher's Edition:
"Restoring the Everglades," p. 6- Visit the Everglades virtually. Check out the Everglades National Park’s Web site for news, teaching tools, and more: www.nps.gov/ever/index.htm
- NASA’s Exploring the Environment Web site about the Everglades has activities and lesson plans:
www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/everglades/FEmain.html - Listen to an NPR story about the Everglades restoration project at:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=91906058
- Download Science World’s PowerPoint about the states of matter at:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scienceworld/assets/SW-POWERPOINT-MATTER.ppt - For a comprehensive guide to snowflakes, snow crystals, and frost, visit snowflake researcher Ken Libbrecht’s Web site:
www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals
"Revealing Marsupials," p. 14
- For fact sheets on a variety of marsupials visit:
www.marsupialsociety.org - Learn more about North America’s only marsupial, the Virginia opossum, here:
http://opossum.org
