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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.

Water

Web Sites
Buoyancy
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/SCI0025.html

EPA Office of Water
http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/kids/exper.html

Rainforest Deforestation
http://nesen.unl.edu/nigec/activities/rainforesthp.htm

The Water Cycle Unit
http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/more/ScienceOWaterCycle_ObjectivesScope4.htm

The Water Cycle: Cloud Formation
http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/more/ScienceOWaterCycle4FormationOfClouds4.htm

The Water Cycle
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html

Water
http://www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Earth_Science/EAR0200.html

Water: A Never Ending Story
http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/pilot/water_cycle/index.html

Water Magic
http://www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Earth_Science/EAR0025.html

Water, Water Everywhere
http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/water/

Software
Discovery Works: Science Processor Grade 3 (101160)
Learn About Physical Science: Matter, Measurement, and Mixtures 1.0 (102101)
Our Environment Macintosh (101091)
Our Environment Windows (101103)

Professional Books

Crime Scene Investigations: Real-Life Science Activities for the Elementary Grades (363.25 Wal)
Desktop Science (372.3 Hix)
Earth Science Activities for Grades 2-8 (550 Tol)
Integrating Technology Into the Science Curriculum: Primary (372.35 Don)
Primarily Earth (371.2 Aim)
Science: 3rd Grade (372.6 McC)
The Sea and Other Water (507.8 Sch)
Teaching Science With Everyday Things (371.2 Aim)
WebPainter Curriculum Workbook: Integrating Technology in the Classroom, Version 1.0 (371.334Web)
Young Scientists Explore Air, Land and Water (372.35 Pen)

Children’s Books
Drink More Water (140891)
Drinking Water (141528)
Drops of Water (132358)
Earth's Land and Water (143093)
Every Drop Counts: A Book About Water (130795)
Hands-On Projects About Saving the Earth's Resources (143983)
I Am Water (135723)
I Love Water (130760)
If the Waters Could Talk (129127)
It Could Still Be Water (127476)
Our Big Home: An Earth Poem (140433)
Poisoned Water (131442)
Rain (131290)
Rain (137763)
Salamander Rain: A Lake and Pond Journal
Snow and Ice (131289)
Water (144652)
Water (130052)
Water All Around (144034)
Water as a Gas (139310)
Water as a Liquid (139308)
Water as a Solid (139309)
The Water Cycle (139311)
Water, Water Everywhere: A Book About the Water Cycle (138857)
We Need Water (139312)
Where Do Puddles Go? (130997)
Who Keeps the Water Clean? Ms. Schindler! (136090)

Videos
Circle of Water (801769)
A Drop of the Hard Stuff (063077)
Earth (069780)
How Pins Float on Water (802006)
How Ships Float (802008)
It's Raining (067381)
Plants and the Seasons (068540)
Taking Care of Our Earth (803985)
Water (069802)
Weather (069803)
What Happens When Water Freezes? (802016)

Assessment Strategies

http://www.keystone.fi.edu/cc_mpc/mpcassess.shtml

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

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This document is intended for the use of curriculum adoptioncommittees, curriculum supervisors, school administrators, science coordinators, teachers, and parents in the Heartland area.  It may be reproduced in whole or in part for nonprofit educational purposes.