Science in the News: Sediment Spews from Connecticut River

Sediment Spews from Connecticut River

Question: What's the story of these two rivers, the Connecticut and the Thames? Why are they different?

Nearly a week after Hurricane Irene drenched New England with rainfall in late August 2011, the Connecticut River was spewing muddy sediment into Long Island Sound and wrecking the region's farmland just before harvest. The Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite acquired this true-color satellite image on September 2, 2011.

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Spanish Resources Available for FOSS CA

We have lots of FOSS California resources available in Spanish! Check out the list below and feel free to email us if you have any questions!

Free Resources on FOSSweb.com/CA

Duplication Masters
Science notebooks sheets, teacher masters, and assessment masters for FOSS CA are available as PDFs. Go to the module, click on Teacher Resources, and then Duplication Masters. For the assessment masters, you'll need a user name and password which you can get from your district science coordinator or request using the online form. These resources are also linked from our Teacher Resource Matrix.

Vocabulary
The vocabulary for each module is available in Spanish. Go to the module and click on Vocabulary.

Cards Used as Equipment
In some modules, we have sets of cards as equipment and these have been translated into Spanish. The Spanish cards are available on FOSSweb.com/CA in the Important Updates sections of Teacher Resources. Here are the cards available in Spanish:

• Kindergarten Trees Module, Landforms cards, 24 per set
• Grade 1  Plants and Animals, Eight sets of organisms cards, 8 cards per set (there are 8 different sets for 8 habitats.)
• Grade 3 Structures of Life, same as for Plants and Animals, Eight sets of organisms cards
• Grade 4 Environments:
• Food Web cards, Mono Lake, 2 per set
• Food Web cards, Monterey Bay, 12 per set
• Food Web cards, Woods Ecosystem, 20 per set
• Gr 5 Water Planet, Solar System cards, 18 per set

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