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9) **Marine Education Resources** Free teachers lessons and resources from a NOAA sponsored project at William and Mary. See http://web.vims.edu/bridge/?svr=www You can use this site to select Marine data as well. The lesson plans are arranged by grade level with clever titles and easy to follow procedures.

10) **BUILDING ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS** Google Crocodile clips which has a free sampler (see http://www.crocodile-clips.com/en/Free_Software/). They sell virtual chemistry and physics software that is inexpensive and standards based. The simulations illustrate, for example, the relationship of load on a circuit to the size wire needed and in chemistry, limiting reactants is nicely taught. Students can play with the simulations and learn important relationships in physics and chemistry or follow a procedure through guided discovery to get the concept. Appropriate for middle levels to introduce concepts and for general physics and chemistry at the high school level.

11) **FOSS DSM** **modules on electric circuits** written for elementary level. Download samples at http://www.delta-education.com/productdetail.aspx?Collection=Y&prodid=1110&menuid=7&page=dsmgallery&topid=&subid=71.

12) **Stream Survey Resources**- lesson plans and data sets [|Resource #1] (for middle school students) [|Resource #2]( for high school students) [| Resource #3] (for middle school students)

13) **All Things for K-6 Science**- Science Buddies

14) **[|Lab Out Loud]** is a podcast, hosted by two //science teachers//, that discusses science news and science education by interviewing leading scientists, researchers, science writers and other important figures in the field.

15) [|National Lab day]-- it's not a day but a site where scientists, community members and teachers share resources and ideas.

16) Science Companion FREE Resources We've been busy at Science Companion looking for ways to provide extra resources to elementary science teachers and are so pleased to share with you our free Virtual Field Trip to Costa Rica, available from Scribd [|here].

If you haven't already seen our Virtual Field Trips, each document is a hyperlinked PDF lesson from one of our module's Teacher Lesson Manuals combined with a short "field trip" geared towards a current event. Each month we explore a different event and a different module. These are perfect free resources to share with your teachers, and a great way to present inquiry science as something happening beyond the classroom. Each of our Virtual Field Trips is available for free on the [|Science Companion website] or from [|Scribd]. Or e-mail us at team@sciencecompanion.com if you'd like us to send you a copy. Science Companion also has a [|Facebook] page where we pass on science education news tidbits and cool science stuff. Check out our page and see stunning photos of space from the Hubble telescope or a YouTube video demonstrating how 2 guys fueled a rocket car with Mentos and Coke Zero.

Best, Becky Karabatos Assistant Director of Marketing Science Companion

17) ChemMatters on YouTube The American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning high school chemistry magazine ChemMatters is making its YouTube debut with its first video podcast. The podcast highlights the promises of nanotechnology, the science and technology of building very small machines that are as small as 1/50,000th the width of a human hair. It is available at www.bytesizescience.com and on the Bytesize Science podcast on iTunes.

Produced by the team behind ACS's award-winning Bytesize Science video podcast, the ChemMatters video serves as an entertaining and educational introduction to the fascinating world of nanotechnology. The episode explains how incredibly small materials could lead to tiny devices that bring medicine exactly where it needs to go in your body, powerful computers the size of a grain of sand and new sources of energy.

ChemMatters has been demystifying the chemistry in our everyday lives for over 25 years. Released quarterly, each issue contains readable articles about the chemistry used in everyday life, and is of interest to high school students and their teachers. New episodes of the ChemMatters video podcast will be available in early 2010.

18) Pennsylvania Environment and Ecology website

19) Pennsylvania Game Commission newsletter available on-line