Grade 4
People and Places

Unit: A; B; C; D; E

Unit A: Earth's Land

United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Tidbits for Teachers: Conservation Education Material for Teachers K-12
Attn: Conservation Communications Staff
P.O. Box 2890
Washington, DC 20013
E-mail: nrcsdesign@nhq.nrc5.usda.gov
http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/CCS/ConsEd.html

Mineral Information Institute
About Mineral Information Institute
(Free K-12 Earth Science Lesson Plans, Geology Teaching Materials)
501 Violet Street
Golden, CO 80401
Tel: (303) 277-9190
Fax: (303) 277-9198
E-mail: mii@mii.org
http://www.mii.org/lessons.html

Unit B: Properties of Matter

American Chemical Society
Welcome to WonderNet:
Chemistry activities for kids, parents, and teachers
http://www.chemcenter.org/wondernet/index.html#1
1155 16th Street NW
Washington DC 20036
Phone: (202) 872-4600
Toll Free: (800) 227-5558

American Association of Physics Teachers:
Physical Sciences Resource Center
http://www.psrc-online.org/curriculum/curriculum.html
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3845
Phone: (301) 209-3300
Fax: (301) 209-0845

University of California Regents, Berkeley
Micro Worlds: Classroom Teaching Modules
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/module_index.html
Elizabeth Moxon
Advanced Light Source, MS 4-230
Berkeley Lab
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 486-5760
Fax: (510) 495-2111
E-mail:ejmoxon@lbl.gov

Unit C: Classifying Living Things

Sea World/ Busch Gardens: Animal Information Database
Education Department
1720 South Shores Road
San Diego, CA 92109-7995
Tel: (619) 226-3834
E-mail: shamu@seaworld.org
http://www.seaworld.org/

National Audubon Society: Kids & Education
700 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
Tel: (212) 979 3000
E-mail: http://www.audubon.org/educate/

United States Department of Agriculture
Plants National Database
P.O. Box 74490
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70874-4490 USA
Tel: (225) 775 6280
Fax: (225) 775 8883
http://plants.usda.gov/

United States Department of Agriculture
14th & Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20250
Tel: (202) 720-2791

North American Nature Photography Association
10200 West 44th Avenue, Suite 304
Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033-2840, USA
Tel: (303) 422-8527
Fax: (303) 422-8894
E-mail: nanpa@resourcenter.com

Museum of Zoology
University of Michigan
1109 Geddes Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Tel: (734) 764-0476
Fax: (734) 763-4080
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html

World Wildlife Fund
1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, N.W.
P.O. Box 97180
Washington, DC 20077-7180
Tel (800) CALL-WWF
http://www.worldwildlife.org/

Museum of Paleontology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 642-4877
E-mail:judys@ucmp1.berkeley.edu
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

Access Excellence
Create a Field Guide of Local Plants
Gabriell DeBear Paye
West Roxbury High School
2 West Roxbury Parkway
West Roxbury, MA 02467
E-mail: gdpaye@hotmail.com
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/paye_plants.html

Unit D: Magenetism and Electricity

Educational Cooperative Service Unit
Young Inventors Program and Fair
Cathy Macdonald, Coordinator
4001 Stinson Blvd. NE, Suite 210
Minneapolis, MN 55421
Tel: (612) 706-0801, ext. 107
E-mail: cmac@ecsu.k12.mn.us
http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/yif/

Houghton Mifflin Invention Convention
Find out how your school can participate in the annual Houghton Mifflin Invention.
http://www.eduplace.com/science/invention/index.html

Inventure Place
National Inventors Hall of Fame
221 S. Broadway
Akron, Ohio 44308
Tel: (330) 762-4463
http://www.invent.org/

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Clearinghouse (EREC) US Department of Energy
P.O. Box 3048
Merrifield, VA 22116
Tel: 1 (800) 363-3732
E-mail: doe.erec@nciinc.com
http://www.eren.doe.gov

The Sectoral Skills Council
The Electric Club: Activities Handbook
171 Nepean, Suite 401
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0B4
Tel: 1 (800) 461-7844, (613) 567-3036
Fax: (613) 567-3195
E-mail: sscfund@sprint.ca
http://www.schoolnet.ca/general/electric-club/e/index.html

Galaxy Networks, Inc.
Hands-On Technology: Electricity and Magnetism
E-mail: debi@worldnet.att.net
http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/electric/notes.shtml

Unit E: Weather and Climate

National Severe Storms Laboratory
1313 Halley Avenue
Norman, OK 73069
405-360-3620
E-mail:www@whirlwind.nssl.noaa.gov
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov

National Weather Service, NOAA
1325 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Webmaster: Jim Fenix
http://www.nws.noaa.gov

Science Learning Network
Miami Museum of Science: Explore Our Resources
http://www.sln.org/resources.html

The Weather Channel Education Department
300 Interstate North Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
Lara Buss
Education Coordinator,
E-mail: lbuss@weather.com

Weather Links
Athena Curriculum--Weather
http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/