Grade 5
People and Places

Unit: A; B; C; D; E; F

Unit A: Systems in Living Things

The Oakland Zoo in Knowland Park
Arlyn Christopherson
Educational Director
9777 Golf Links Road
P.O. Box 5238
Oakland, CA 94605
Tel: (510) 632-9525, ext. 121
Fax: (510) 635-5719
arlyn@oaklandzoo.or
http://www.oaklandzoo.org/education

United States National Arboretum
3501 New York Avenue, NE
Washington, D.C. 20002-1958
Tel: (202) 245-2726
Fax: (202) 245-4575
http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/Beltsville/na/

Desert Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
Phoenix, AZ 85008
Tel: (480) 941-1225
http://www.dbg.org/index.html

Unit B: The Solar System and Beyond

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
A Guide to NASA Educational Programs
NASA Headquarters
Mail Code P
300 E Street SW
Washington, DC 20546-0001
Tel: (202) 358-0000
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/

Space Telescope Science Institute
Hubble Space Telescope: Public Information
3700 San Martin Drive
Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: (410) 338-4700
http://oposite.stsci.edu/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Multimedia Space Educators' Handbook
Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
E-mail: jared.woodfill1@jsc.nasa.gov

Unit C: Matter and Energy

American Chemical Society
Educational resources for teachers, parents, and students
1155 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (800) 227-5558
http://portal.acs.org:80/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=180&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1

University of California Regents, Berkeley
Microworlds: Information for Teachers
Berkeley Lab, MS 6-2100
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 486-7745
Fax: (510) 418-4773
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/teachers/index.html

Unit D: Populations and Ecosystems

National Wildlife Federation
8925 Leesburg Pike
Vienna, VA 22184
Tel: (703) 790-4000
http://www.nwf.org

United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Environmental Education Specialist
Heather Johnson
1011 East Tudor Road
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Tel: (907) 786-3367
http://www.fws.gov/

Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540
Tel: (202) 707-5000
http://www.loc.gov/

Smithsonian Institution
SI Building, Room 153
Washington, DC 20560-0010
Tel: (202) 357-2700
http://www.si.edu/

Unit E: The Solid Earth

Geologic Inquiries Group
U.S. Geological Survey
907 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
Tel: (888) ASK-USGS (275-8747)
Fax: (703) 648-4888
E-mail: gig@usgs.gov
http://www.usgs.gov/

Geological Society of America
3300 Penrose Place
P.O. Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301
Tel: (303) 447-2020, (800) 472-1988
Fax: (303) 447-1133
E-mail: member@geosociety.org
http://www.geosociety.org/

Mineral Information Institute
501 Violet Street
Golden, CO 80401
Tel: (303) 277-9190
Fax: (303) 277-9198
E-mail: mii@mii.org
http://www.mii.org/aboutmii.html

National Museum of Natural History
Department of Mineral Sciences
Smithsonian Institution
10th Street and Constitution Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20560
Tel: (202) 357-2700
E-mail: minisciweb@volcano.si.edu
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/minsci/

National Museum of Natural History
Department of Paleobiology
Smithsonian Institute
10th Street and Constitution Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20560
Tel: (202) 357-2700
E-mail: paleobiology@nmnh.si.edu
http://paleobiology.si.edu/

Maps and Geologic Literature

The Geological Society of America
P.O. Box 1719
Boulder, Colorado 80302
Tel: (800) 472-1988, (303) 447-2020

U.S. Geological Survey
Map Distribution
Box 25286
Building 810
Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
Tel: (303) 236-7476

Unit F: Light and Sound

The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, California 94123
http://www.exploratorium.edu

The Franklin Institute Science Museum
222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: (215) 448-1200
http://www2.fi.edu/

The Tech Museum of Innovation
201 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
http://www.thetech.org