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FOSS Newsletter #34
Spring 2009

New Middle School Teacher Resources Available on FOSSweb!

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Teacher Preparation Videos and Spanish Lab Notebooks for the following Middle School Courses: Chemical Interactions, Planetary Science, Populations and Ecosystems, and Weather and Water. The videos include Teacher Guide information, safety precautions, and extensive set-up procedures. The Lab Notebook PDFs are complete Spanish language versions of the students' lab notebook sheets.

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To view the videos, go to www.FOSSweb.com. On the Welcome Page, navigate to the Middle School homepage, then choose the course whose video you wish to view. Click on the Teacher Resources button on the left, and then click the Teacher Prep Videos icon. Select the name of the clip you wish to view in the list to the right, or choose Play All to view the entire video. You will need Flash Player version 8 or higher installed in order to view these videos. You can download the Flash player for free at www.adobe.com.

To access the Lab Notebooks, follow the steps above to navigate to the Teacher Resources section of the course you are using and click the Lab Notebook icon. You can also access the Lab Notebooks through the FOSSweb homepage by going to For Teachers and Parents, then Resources, and finally Replacement Duplication Masters, where you will find a table with all available downloadable PDFs. You will need Adobe Reader to open, view, and print the PDFs. You can download it for free at www.adobe.com.


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