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FOSS Resource Materials

This page was created for Iowa educators who are using Science Kits in their classrooms. It is designed to help teachers locate resources and materials which support science kits and are available from Heartland AEA 11. Teachers will find professional library books, videos, software, children's books, and Web links that correspond to science kits at all grade levels.

Environments

Web Sites
Career Connections
http://www.psd.k12.co.us/district/stc/elem/foss/environfifth.htm

Setting Rivers Free
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/biobulletin/biobulletin/story1203.html

What’s Up With Our Nation’s Waters?
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/

Habitats
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/nature/habitat/index.htm

Habitats and Biomes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/

An Amazon Adventure
http://jajhs.kana.k12.wv.us/amazon/index.htm

Blue Planet Challenge: A Natural History of the Oceans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/blue/index.shtml

Some Like it Hot!
http://www.blm.gov/education/sonoran/sonoran.html/

Software
Amazon Trail 3rd Edition: Rain Forest Adventures (101724)
Discoveries: Explore the Desert Ecosystem Version 1.4 Macintosh (101945)
Discoveries: Explore the Desert Ecosystem Version 1.4 Windows (101946)
Discoveries: Explore the Everglades Ecosystem Version 1.4 Macinstosh (101949)
Discoveries: Explore the Everglades Ecosystem Version 1.4 Windows (101950)
Discoveries: Explore the Forest Ecosytem Version 1.4 Macintosh (101947)
Discoveries: Explore the Forest Ecosytem Version 1.4 Windows (101948)
Earth Explorer Macintosh (101225)
Earth Explorer Version N/A Windows(101224)
Earth Trails: Loess Hills Macintosh (102081)
Earth Trails: Loess Hills Windows (102082)
A Field Trip to the Sea Deluxe Version 1.0 (101764)
Eyewitness: Encyclopedia of Nature 2.0 (101434)
Learning About Science Series: Learning About Ecology (101329)
Our Environment Macintosh (101091)
Our Environment Windows (101103)
Project N.E.W (130180)
Rainforest Designer Version 1.0 (101829)
Science Seekers: Endangered Species Version 1.01 (101887)
Wetlands (101338)

Professional Books
Earth Science Activities for Grades 2-8 (550 Tol)
Ecology for Every Kid (574.5 Van)
Endangered Animals With Teacher Guide (591.529 Pro)
Endangered Species: Linking Environmental Studies with Everyday Life (591.5 Coo)
Geology: Our Changing Earth (551 Dif)
Integrating Technology Into the Science Curriculum: Intermediate (372.35 Pat)
Intermediate Science Through Children's Literature: Over Land and Sea (372.3 But)
Lessons from the Loess Hills (551.3 Les)
New Virtual Field Trips (025.04 Coo)
Trash Unlimited: Linking Environmental Studies with Everyday Life (574.5 McK)

Children’s Books
The Antarctic (143545)
The Changing Earth (143296)
Coral Reefs (142728)
Dams (143568)
Deserts (142653)
Deserts (142730)
Erosion (143294)
Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Environments (142735)
Food Chains in a Backyard Habitat (144559)
Food Chains in a Meadow Habitat (144560)
Food Chains in a Tide Pool Habitat (144557)
Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate (143400)
Grasslands (142739)
Grasslands (142740)
Grasslands (144378)
Grasslands and Deserts (142741)
Hands-On Projects About Saving the Earth's Resources (143983)
Mountains (142678)
The Poles (142760)
Rain Forests (142685)
Rain Forests (142765)
Rainforest Researchers (144048)
Storm on the Desert (144627)
Temperate Forests (142774)
Tundra (142701)
Wetlands (142780)
Wetlands (142781)

Videos
The Alaska Glaciers: Voices From the Ice (070532)
Biomes: Deserts and the Tundra (070401)
Biomes: Forests (070402)
Biomes: Grasslands (070400)
Biomes: Water (070403)
Coastal Biomes: Where the Land Meets the Sea (069779)
Ecosystems (070448)
Environmental Impacts (069813)
River Biomes: Essential and Endangered (069793)
Rivers of North America: The Ohio River (070326)
The Whales That Came Back (804434)

FOSS- Link to Modules Descriptions
http://www.delta-ed.com/teachers/science/fossmodules.html

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