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		<title>Rader&#8217;s Geography4Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<title>An Astronomical Alphabet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BrainsRule! Neuroscience explorations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Neuroscience for Kids &#8211; Amazing site!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NeuroScience for Kids is a buried treasure of brain information and activities for kids. There&#8217;s Neuroscience in the News, online and hands-on explorations, experiments, contests, and links to sites, books and articles all about brains.  It&#8217;s worth the time to dig deep into this site!

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		<title>FossWeb Science for K-2, 3-6 or Middle School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.fossweb.com/">FossWeb</a> offers three sites with interactive inquiry-based science activities. The site does not have full auditory support, but downloadable audio versions of the Foss texts are  available. Each level offers a different range of features and topics, but all three offer extensive parent and teacher support.</p>
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<li>The <a href="http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/index.html">K-2 site</a> includes background information, an interactive activity, related photos, web links, questions answered by professional scientists for units on insects, animals, wood and paper, fabric, trees, balance and motion, pebbles, sand and silt, new plants, air and weather, and solids and liquids</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/index.html">3rd-6th grade site</a> includes interactive activities, posters, pictures and movies, links, vocabulary, book lists and &#8216;ask a scientist for topics such as magnets and electricity, models and design, the human body, levers and pulleys, food and nutrition, earth materials, water, mixtures and solutions, measurement, physics of sound, solar energy, land forms, structures of life, variables, ideas and inventions, and environments</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/index.html">Middle School Site</a> includes multimedia modules, books, links and a glossary covering activities such as human brain and senses, populations and ecosystems, force and motion, planetary science, electronics, earth history, diversity of life, weather and water, and chemical interactions</li>
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