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25) Kitchen Chemistry
Some of the activities may be too simple, but I used the Exploratorium site with 8th graders and they enjoyed it. We tied the lollipop activity into polymers.- Kip Bollinger http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/index.html

26) Virtual Software from Riverdeep
Riverdeep has Virtual Labs Electricity and Virtual Labs Light for free download (these were created by Edmark). Both are excellent. There are middle school curricula to go with both, but they aren't free.

http://web.riverdeep.net/portal/page?_pageid=818,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL or look at the PhET applets@ http://phet.colorado.edu/

27) Ocean Oil Clearinghouse
It is now more than 7 months since the largest marine oil spill in history began in the Gulf of Mexico. Many questions remain regarding the causes, magnitude and consequences of the Deepwater Horizon blow out. Larger questions remain regarding off-shore drilling and the use of energy and society. The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and its partners, Boston University and Louisiana State University, have created a resource that will allow you to explore these questions and others, as well as to contribute your own expertise. The Online Clearinghouse for Education & Networking: Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL) is an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic education resource about the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation.

OCEAN-OIL already contains: • 1,000+ hyper-linked encyclopedia style articles related to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, including offshore oil and gas, the ecological effects of oil spills, details of the event, oil spill response, and lessons from the disaster, and related topics • 400+ glossary of important terms related to oil spill causes, impacts, clean-up, and prevention • 75+ acronyms (LPG, PPM, ROV, VOC) to help decode the language of oil spill science • 80+ external resource links to federal government sites, image galleries, news sources, industry, environmental groups, education, and journal articles Deepwater Horizon photo gallery: Images by renowned photojournalist Gary Braasch • Deepwater Horizon by the Numbers: Publication quality graphs • Reports of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The OCEAN-OIL website is seamlessly integrated into the Encyclopedia of Earth (www.eoearth.org), which is a free, peer-reviewed, searchable collection of content about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society, written by expert scholars and educators. NCSE coordinates the Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia's Editor-in-Chief Cutler Cleveland of Boston University, who is an expert in energy and society, leads the development of the new online resource.

We invite you to contribute your expertise to this important initiative. To be a reviewer, follow these procedures. You can become a contributor by registering here. For more information contact Mallory Nomack at MNomack@bu.edu

28) Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading
Here's one that includes very early seafloor spreading data (1968) from microfossils in cores taken on both sides of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It's a simple and elegant graphing activity. See  We have a nice poster about microfossils that goes along with it, as well.

We have a second version of it that involves Google Earth and a lot of teachers like it, but it's a bit more complicated. See < http://www.oceanleadership.org/education/deep-earth-academy/educators/classroom-activities/grades-5-8/nannofossils-reveal-seafloor-spreading-truth/>.