Join our marketing director Leigh (and a host of other critters) as they explore the Catskill Mountains around her farm — and what happens when it rains and rains and rains, with a lesson from our new Soils module!

Click here to download our Mud in the Mountains! Virtual Field Trip…

Want to be a Science Companion Virtual Field Trip Guide?

We’re having so much fun with these that we’d like to share!

Send us pictures from your vacation this summer to enter our Intrepid Virtual Field Trip Guide contest. If we choose your photos to fit with a lesson from one of our modules (you’re welcome to make suggestions or leave it to us), we’ll feature you as our guide and send you a free Science Skill Builders module, which is a great tool for any elementary classroom!

Send your photos and/or any questions to leigh(a)sciencecompanion.com!

Join us for a celebration of speed and motion at the Indianapolis 500, combined with a lesson from our Motion module.

Click here to download the Indy 500 Motion Virtual Field Trip…

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Want to be a Science Companion Virtual Field Trip Guide?

We’re having so much fun with these that we’d like to share!

Send us pictures from your vacation this summer to enter our Intrepid Virtual Field Trip Guide contest. If we choose your photos to fit with a lesson from one of our modules (you’re welcome to make suggestions or leave it to us), we’ll feature you as our guide and send you a free Science Skill Builders module, which is a great tool for any elementary classroom!

Send your photos and/or any questions to leigh(a)sciencecompanion.com!

Find out what’s cooking at Science Companion!

Coming to the Indiana Textbook Caravan?

We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Stop by our booth and try your hand at inquiry science, take away a sampler to share Science Companion with your colleagues, and check out our presentation to find out how you can get your classrooms cooking with Science Companion.
(And ask us how you can win a chance at your own Let’s Get Cooking! apron…)

Can’t make it live? Join us for a Virtual Caravan!

For those of you who are unable to join us OR for those who just can’t get enough Caravan, come one by to find photos, presentations, science teaching tips, Virtual Field trips, recipes from friends and colleagues, and chances for an apron as well, all on our website. We’ll be updating it daily, so stop by to see what’s cooking!

Click here to visit the First Ever Annual Science Companion Virtual Indiana Textbook Caravan!

An Innovative Free Online Pilot Program!

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We know that both time and financial resources are limited for school districts these days. So, we are delighted to introduce an exciting new digital opportunity for you to try Science Companion materials at no cost, at a scale that is easily manageable.  And it’s high tech, too!

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Come to our Online Pilot Website and find:

• Sample lessons from eight of our modules.
• Conversation and support from content and teaching experts.
• Free digital teacher materials and student resources.
• Directions on how  to order  ‘lending library’ for kit materials.
• A pilot that will give you a rich taste of inquiry science but requires no more than a handful of classroom sessions.

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“I think this is an awesome resource for doing science.” Field Test Teacher

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There are a limited number of online pilots available, so contact us now to  find out how you can explore Science Companion at your pace, for free. (And, of course, we have traditional pilots available too. Just ask!)

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Click here to visit the Science Companion Online Pilot Website!

Email us at pilots@sciencecompanion.com for more information.

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Supplemental Classroom Supplies Kits Now 50% Off!

An end-of-the-school-year, we-love-our-customers sale.

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Supplemental Classroom Supplies Sale Flyer

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Want to see what’s in one? Click here to find your module…

(Then scroll to the bottom of the module page you’ve chosen and click on the link to see a complete list of the supplies.)

If you have purchased any module from us in the past, we’d like to offer you your choice of Supplemental Classroom Supplies kits for 50% off of the retail price from now until the end of the school year.

Our Supplemental Classroom Supplies kits are designed to take the hassle out of collecting all of those incidental items that you need to do science in your classrooms. No more trips to the dollar store! Everything you need in one box!

And at these prices, you’ll save money. Think of that. Organization and thrift right there at your fingertips.

Supplies are limited, so contact us for more information!

Click here to find your rep.

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We had so much traffic at our booth and on our virtual online raffle that we decided to raffle off Teacher Materials from number of our Habitats and Our Solar System modules.

Here are the lucky winners:

Habitats Teacher Materials Package

Including a Teacher Lesson Manual, Assessment Book, and Teacher Masters:

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Our Solar System Teacher Lesson Manual and Masters

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Keep your eyes peeled — we’ll be sending you your materials shortly! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to all of our winners.

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Here’s an easy way to check in on all of the great Virtual NSTA activities here on our site:

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• Are you ready? A pre-NSTA Virtual Field Trip

• Come by and see us…virtually! NSTA Philadelphia 2010

• Missing out on the free stuff at the conference? Enter our raffle online! (Until

• Catching up.

• With Science Present (Part 1)

• With Science Present (Part 2)

• Rare Philadelphia gecko sighting!

• What would the Liberty Bell sound like?

• Science Future – “Eyeballs in the Fridge”

• Using the web for science education.

• Goodbye from Science Companion and Spheniscus magellanicus.