January 11, 2010
BONUS! This Issue's Online-Only Printable:
- Periodic Puzzler
SKILL: Periodic Table
BASED ON: “Name That Element!” p. 16
Teacher's Edition
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)
- Hard as a Rock (Chart-Reading Skills)
- Wild Lemurs (Reading-Comprehension Skills)
This issue's Web Extras:
VideoExtra
- Watch a video of Buzz Lightyear’s record spaceflight at:
www.spacevidcast.com/2009/09/21/buzz-lightyear-has-returned-from-the-international-space-station - View a video of a Bagheera KiIplingi spider hunting its next vegetable meal:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8302535.stm
- To find a rock and mineral club near you, visit:
www.amfed.org - Learn more about lemurs and the Duke Lemur Center at:
www.lemur.duke.edu - To find out more about how some lawyers work to protect the environment, check out:
www.nrdc.org - For more Science Explorations content, visit:
www.scholastic.com/scienceexplorations
Article-specific web links from this issue's Teacher's Edition:
"Rockhounds"
- Want to know more about minerals? Visit the Mineralogical Society of America’s Mineralogy 4 Kids Web site at:
www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/K_12.html - For more rockhounding tips, tools, and lesson plans, visit the Franklin Institute’s Rock Hounds Web site:
http://fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/rocks/index2.html - Download the lesson plans, game board, and a die to play your own rock cycle game from the Utah Education Network:
www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=11513
"Born in the USA"
- For videos, photo galleries, and an interactive map about lemurs, visit the American Museum of Natural History’s lemur Web site:
www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/bio/f/lemurs.20060401/index.php - Watch a National Geographic video of primatologist Miera Mayor searching for a rare species of sifaka lemur in the forests of Madagascar:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammalsanimals/monkeys-and-lemurs/lemur_sifaka_search.html
"Name That Element!"
- Visit the Jefferson Lab’s It’s Elemental! Web site to learn more about bismuth and all of the other elements on the periodic table:
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele083.html - The American Chemical Society’s interactive periodic table has pop-up data, electron configuration charts, and more for all of the table’s elements:
http://acswebcontent.acs.org/games/pt.html
"Star Tour"
- Check out this online interactive that explores the relationship between stars and the electromagnetic spectrum:
http://amazingspace.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/light - Keep up-to-date with all of the new astronomical findings with the Hubblesite’s SkyWatch weekly podcasts at:
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/skywatch - Learn more about stars by studying real star data at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s SkyServer Web site (includes lesson plans for teachers):
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr1/en/proj
Answer: Gold is on the left and pyrite is on the right.
