May 9, 2011

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Science World is now offering comprehensive online resources for “Disaster in Japan" on p. 14.
 

• Start your lesson by showing this ANCHOR VIDEO, which will introduce the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
  
  
• Next, read the article, “Disaster in Japan,” p. 14, which explains what caused the earthquake and tsunami. Your entire class can view a DIGITAL VERSION of the article using your interactive whiteboard and computer projector.
  
  
• After reading the story, have students complete the CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING skills sheet. This can be done as a class or individually to test students’ new vocabulary and reading comprehension.
  
  TEACHER'S EDITION
  Download this issue's Teacher's Edition here. (Answer keys have been removed.)
  
  ONLINE-ONLY SKILLS PAGES
  
• The Perfect Pitch
• Stunning Species
• Disaster in Japan
• Freed From Rock
• Self-Scoring Science News Quiz
  
  BONUS ONLINE ONLY REPRODUCIBLE
  After reading “Stunning Species” (p.10), have your class complete this mapping skills sheet, which challenges students to plot out the locations where the top-10 new species of 2010 were discovered.
  
  WEB EXTRAS!
  
  Science News
  
• Future of Flight! Watch an experimental hybrid airship take off.
  
  The Perfect Pitch
• VIDEO EXTRA: View the results of a pitcher’s motion analysis.
• Discovery News has a video about the motion-capture technology used to make Avatar.
• Check out this video at the History Channel about how motion-capture technology works.
  
  Stunning Species
  
• VIDEO EXTRA: Watch videos of Conservation International’s species-gathering expedition to Ecuador.
• Check out WWF’s Biodiversity 911 Web site that has resources and games.
• For beautiful images and videos on some of Earth’s amazing creatures, visit ARKive’s Web site.
  
  Disaster in Japan
• VIDEO EXTRA: Watch a video by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on how tsunamis are created.
• View an interactive map with images and information on damage caused by Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.
• Test your tsunami knowledge by visiting the “Student Corner” of the Pacific Tsunami Museum’s Web site.
  
  Freed From Rock
  
• WEB EXTRA: Explore the biological features of giant sauropods by visiting the American Museum of Natural History’s “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs.”
• Visit the University of California Museum of Paleontology’s online exhibits.
• Check out these Scholastic whiteboard-ready interactive lessons and games about dinosaurs.