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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.

Magnetism and Electricity

Web Sites
An Inside Look at Electricity
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/hillside/Franklin/jummy/Project.html

Circuit City
http://cf.synergylearning.org/displayarticle.cfm?selectedarticle=96

Electricity and Magnetism
http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/electricity/

The Exploratorium Science Snacks
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/iconmagnetism.html

Magnetic Levitation for Your Classroom
http://cf.synergylearning.org/displayarticle.cfm?selectedarticle=98

Physical Processes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise/science/physical/index.shtml

Resistors
http://cf.synergylearning.org/displayarticle.cfm?selectedarticle=97

Theater of Electricity
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/toe.html

Software
The Alarming Episode (101275)
City Utilities: Our Basic Services (101550)
Electricity and Pill Bugs (102090)
Electricity: The Invisible River of Energy (101368)
Kid Pix Activity Kits Volume 4 Version 6.0 (101822)
Virtual Labs: Electricity Version 1.0 (101744)

Professional Books
Edison Etc. (372.3 Hix)
Electrical Connections (371.2 Aim)
Integrating Technology Into the Science Curriculum: Challenging (500 Hoo)
Invitations to Science Inquiry, Second Edition (507.12 Lie)
Physical Science Activities for Grades 2-8 (530 Tol)
Taking Charge: An Introduction to Electricity (507.1 Sch)
Teaching Science With Everyday Things (507.8 Sch)
Teaching Science with the Internet: Internet Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, K-6 (384.3 You)
Tons of Scientifically Provocative and Socially Acceptable Things to do With Balloons Under the Guise of Teaching Science (507.1 McG)
Young Scientists Explore Electricity and Magnetism (372.3 Deb)
Zero To Einstein In 60 (372.3 Hix)

Children’s Books
Electricity (142733)
Electricity and Batteries (140308)
Electricity and Magnetism (132799)
Electricity and Magnetism (132878)
Electricity and Magnetism (127215)
Electricity and Magnetism (129742)
Electricity and Magnetism (130695)
Magnetism (138623)
Magnetism & Magnets (140310)
Magnets (136976)
Michael Faraday (140985)
Michael Faraday (141468)
Playing With Magnets (130916)
Rain and People (141249)
The Science of Energy (140373)

Videos
China: Yangzi River and Three Gorges Dam (070307)
Current Electricity (069372)
Electricity (069311)
Electromagnetism (069374)
How Does That Work?: Electricity and Magnetism (068970)
Magnetism (069373)
Magnetic Fields (804269)
The Nature of Electricity (069371)
Real World Science: Electricity (069594)
Real World Science: Magnetism (069595)
Where Does Coal and Electricity Come From? (804001)

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

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