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Intro: What is Good Science?
National Enquirer
A really clever experiment that helps explain how scientific
thought works: The
Michelson-Morely experiment
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Rocket Science
Projectile
Motion applet: use this applet to model the flight of our rockets.
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AlChemistry
All you ever wanted to know about
the elements on Webelements
Powers of 10
website
Particle matter model: One molecule
gas applet
Handy tool for calculating pressure, volume, and
temperature: the Gas Law
calculator
Chembank:
an online dictionary of molecules
Chem4kids.com
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Newtonian Mechanics
The
Lightclock: this web applet helps explain why time is slower when
you go faster
2 dimensional
collisions applet: play with different masses and see how forces
change
Adding
Vectors of force applet: add forces and see the resultant vector
Newton's Laws
of Gravitation applet: see how gravity and velocity are related
Newton's
cannon applet: see how gravity and velocity are related
Catapult
problem applet: try saving your friends with a catapult!
Interactive
Physics Labs: try some interactive physics labs!
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The Normal Curve
The Lens
Label the Eye
Diagram #2
Label the Eye
Diagram #2 Answers
How the Eye
Works
How Your Eye
Works (American Optometric Association)
Afterimage links:
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/afterima.htm
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/afterimage.html
http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/afterimage.html
blind spot and depth perception links:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html
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Genes and Traits
Webquest start:
Genetics
Science Learning Center: a tour of the basics http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/tour/
Genetics
Science Learning Center: inside the cell
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/cell/
Easy-to-read Websites
Science4kids
What is
genetics?
Genetics Education Center
biology4kids:
cell structures
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_main.html
Children's
research institute: information for kids http://www.genecrc.org/site/ko/index_ko.htm
Dnalmanac:
some simple definitions
http://www.vltavastudios.com/dna/index.shtml
Harder Reading
UCSF Genetics
information: vocabulary
http://www.familystudies.org/genetics_info.htm
Genetics
Science Learning Center: Genes and Blood Type http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/blood/
Anthro.com
home page: what is genetics?
http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/genetic.html
Kansas University Medical Center's
Genetics information center
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
The Tech:
genetics online museum
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/
Punnett
Square calculator
HYPERLINK "http://tiki.oneworld.net/penguin/genetics/home.html"Tiki's
guide to genetic engineering
Eye color calculator
Foot binding
search results
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The Blue Marble
The National Map
Personal
greenhouse gas calculator
carbon
footprint calculator
HYPERLINK
"http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html"this link goes to a
cool USGS water cycle page
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Population Biology
The HYPERLINK
"http://www.podcast.net/play/85531/6"dead zone podcast
Exponential
growth: the bacteria example!
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Intro: What is Good Science?
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A Walk Through Time
Elm Street
Landslide slideshow
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Life's Journey
Biome Links
Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/
Detailed and specific information about biomes with pictures
of animals, specific locations of biomes, etc.
World Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
Good for inromation for mapping biomes around the
world. Also has a section for
plants, animals, and climate for each biome.
Intro to Biomes
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/introbiomes.html
Has information about the climate and food chains within
each biome.
Biome Web Quest
Information on Biomes:
START HERE:
Center for
Educational Technologies: Climatographs CAN BE FOUND here!!!
NEXT GO HERE:Blue Planet: Good general information on land biomes
only
Radford
University: More
advanced information but gives good information on plant and animal adaptations
THEN CHOOSE FROM HERE:
University of
Berkley Museum of Paleontology: Good general Information - includes water biomes
Missouri Botanical Garden: Good general information - including
water biomes
NASA Earth
Observatory: Good
general information on land biomes only - includes maps and graphs and links to
other sites
World Wildlife
Federation: Good
general information for all biomes including information on food webs and
adaptations
Horse Evolution
1 the evolution of horses
2 the gait of early horses
3 the horse family tree
4 fossil horses in cyberspace
also
the first archaeopteryx
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Equilibrium in Systems
Virtual Heart Tour:
MEDtropolis
virtual body guided tours. click on the heart tour, and take the guided tour.
Diagrams and
videos of your heart in action. Check out the open heart surgery video!
Virtual Frog Dissection:
Start with
Netfrog. Click Here and follow the tutorial. Watch the videos.
Do Frogguts.
Click here and let it load for a second. Then go ahead.
If you have
time, click here to look at the organ systems of a frog. check and uncheck
boxes to "turn on" viewing of the systems.
cellular tissue assignment links:
Information on cells: www.cellsalive.com
Information on organelles: biology4kids: cell
structure
Pictures of cell types: http://www.dscc.edu/bwilliams/Biology/AnimalTissue.htm
Pictures of cells: HYPERLINK
"www.fotosearch.com"www.fotoseach.com
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Homeostasis in Cells
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Main Street Middle School Medical School
Human Body
A look inside
the human body
Cell Structure
Skeletal
System
Gray's
Anatomy On Line
The Inner
Body On Line
The Virtual
Body
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Energy Flow
Electricity and Magnetism
The Truth
About Electricity
Boston Museum
of Science Electricity Show
Introduction
to Electricity
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How to be a Better Earthling
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