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Keystone Weekly
volume 3, issue 28 April 22, 2002

This week's Key Points: *New Curricular Companion* and *Web Pick of the Week*
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Latest Curricular Companion
Plant Growth and Development
http://www.keysto ne.fi.edu/cc_pgd/

What better time than spring to reflect on the nature of plant growth and development? It may be a little late in the school year to incorporate all that this Curricular Companion has to offer, but you may find some items of interest that you'd like to share with your students now.

The Plant Growth and Development Curricular Companion features resources that align to the following kits: Plant Growth and Development (STC), Experiments with Plants (STC/MS), Growing Things (Insights), Trees (FOSS), and New Plants (FOSS).

Do you have any resources that you'd like to share, or think would make a great addition to this Companion? Just let us know!

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Web Pick of the Week
A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
http://www.madsci.org /~lynn/VH/

This site is included in the Human Body Science Curricular Companion, so you may have already checked it out, but an educator brought it to my attention again recently, and reminded me of just what a singular resource it is. The Visible Human Project has generated over 18,000 digitized cross-sectional images of the human body, offering options of viewing animations of the inner views of our body from top to bottom and from side to side. The author of the site suggests trying "to follow the paths of organs such as the brain, heart, lungs, and liver" as you watch the animation. There are also still images that you can examine more slowly.

Unless you've been to or are planning to go to medical school, these images of the human body are unlike any other resources you're likely to have come in contact with. This could be of great interest to any students who think they may be interested in pursuing a medical profession.

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The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.

The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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