September 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.

Click the following links for bonus material for teaching “Jungle Gossip Decoded” and its accompanying hands-on experiment.

• Multimedia PowerPoint: Introduce the topic of animal communication with this multimedia PowerPoint. Hear animal sounds and learn what the sounds may mean.
  
  
  
• Downloadable article: Read or review SuperScience’s feature on animal communication and the hands-on experiment with this whiteboard-ready version.
  
  
• Data cards for “Send a Message”: Use these data cards for the “Send a Message” hands-on experiment.
  
  
• Hands-on PowerPoint: Preview each step of the hands-on procedure with your class with this downloadable PowerPoint.
  
  
  
• Self-scoring interactive quiz can assess students’ comprehension of the story.

Plus, FREE skills pages and hands-on materials for the earth science article
“Earth-Friendly Fire”:

• Bonus reproducible on forest fires builds chart-reading skills. View the answer key here.
• Bonus reproducible on the carbon cycle builds diagram-reading skills. View the answer key here.
• Grid template for “Forest Cover”: To save time, print out the grid template used in the hands-on “Forest Cover” on page 15. Students can trace the pattern onto transparencies instead of measuring it by hand.

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

• Fire Drill
  SKILL: Graphs
• 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 Watery Popsicle”
  Learn how the properties of salt help make ice cream:
  www.eduplace.com/kids/hmxs/g6/weatherwater/cricket/sect2cc.shtml
  

• Life Science Feature: “Jungle Gossip Decoded”
  To learn more about ongoing research in the science of animal communication, visit: http://acp.eugraph.com
  

• Cool Science Jobs: “Superheroes’ Super Writer”
  For more on the science of superheroes, check out this Popular Science photo gallery:
  http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-gaming/article/2008-01/science-superheroes

• Earth Science Feature: “Earth-Friendly Fire”
  Join Smokey the Bear to learn more about fire safety, the science of wildfires, and how experts fight the blazes:
  http://www.smokeybear.com/wildfires.asp

This FEMA site offers kid-friendly information on wildfires and prescribed burns: http://www.fema.gov/kids/wldfire.htm