May 2010

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To meet our goal of providing the highest-quality science education content for the modern classroom, SuperScience is now offering comprehensive online resources for subscribers. Here is a digital package for teaching "Dangerous Race" and its accompanying hands-on experiment.

• Students can listen to the BBC's David Attenborough talk about explorer Robert Scott's hut with this anchoring audio clip.
• Read or review SuperScience's feature on the historic race to the South Pole and it's hands-on experiment with this downloadable version.
• Preview the story’s hand-on experiment and preview the procedure with your class with this hands-on photo slide show, available as a downloadable PowerPoint file.
• Assess students’ comprehension of the cover story with this self-scoring, interactive quiz.
• Tie the lesson to language arts with this Web-only, bonus reproducible. View or download the answer key here.
  
  

TEACHER’S EDITION
Download this issue’s Teacher’s Edition here. (Answers have been removed.)

• Perilous Chills
  SKILL: Charts
• Inside an Earthquake
  SKILL: Diagrams
• Be a Quiz Whiz
  SKILL: Reading Comprehension
  
• No-Sweat Bubble Test
  SKILL: Reading Comprehension
  

WEB CONNECTIONS FOR THIS ISSUE:

• SuperScience Mystery: "The Case of the Colorless Leaves"
  Delaware State University’s Plants for Kids site offers lessons and experiments on plant biology:
  http://herbarium.desu.edu/pfk/index.html
  

• Earth Science Feature: "Dangerous Race"
  South Pole for Kids has interesting facts and a slide show of Antarctica photos:
  http://southpoleforkids.ca/kids-teachers/south-pole-facts
  
  The British Antarctic Survey provides general information about the continent:
  www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk
  

• Cool Science Jobs: "Money Magician"
  Learn more about how damaged currency is examined and redeemed at this site from the U.S. Department of the Treasury:
  http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/damagedcurrency.html
  

• Life Science Feature: "The Power of Play"
  The Strong National Museum of Play offers many informational resources about play:
  http://www.museumofplay.org/about_play/index.html