Current Vocabulary

Quizlet link to Characteristics of Stars- constellation, spectrograph, etc (quiz Fri Apr. 13)

Quizlet link to Earth's Motion rotation revolution eclipses, etc. (quiz Tues Apr. 3)

Links for ELI from Lehigh University College of Education are found on this page. Scroll down to find them.

Works Cited Practice

Cometary Poison Gas Geyser - NASA Science article online

The Nature of Science

How do we do science?

What are the basic skills needed to do science? - learningscience.org links to online activities What is inquiry about? What is quantitative and qualitative observation? What are predictions, evidence and conclusions? Communicate and defend your conclusions.

Abilities of Technological design - learningscience.org links to online activities How are design ideas explored?

Science Inquiry

Design an Inquiry

A Set of Inquiry Based Problems - Given a problem, design........ from Illinois Scientific Literacy Pilot Grant

6-8thgrade webquests - listed alphabetically - check with Mr. Patterson to select a quest to use this year

Science Fair Projects - Inquiry based projects by grade level

ELI Energy Curriculum

Climate Change Student Resources - bookmark this link on your student computer

Energy Unit Student Resources - bookmark this link on your computer

The Future of Energy - link to Popular Science magazine article from July 2009 Volume 275 #1

Earth Science and Space Science

Geology

**** see the Eastern Hemisphere page under Romans for Pompeii links ****

Geologic Time UC Berkeley Tour

Geology of the New Jersey Highlands An interactive pdf tour of northern N.J.

Volcano World - For the kids' door to volcanic knowledge go here and scroll down for virtual field trips

Earthquake Monitor - From the IRIS network

Geology for Kids - Rader's site for basic geology

Layers of the Earth - basic information (needs flash player)

Earthquakes, Faults, Plate Tectonics, and Earth Structure - USGS site FAQs

Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes - overview of plate movement and quakes

Plates, Boundaries and Quakes - What happens at plate boundaries?

Map of Plate Boundaries - plate boundary locations and direction of movement arrows

Natural Disasters - a thinkquest library link about disasters and preparedness

USGS/ Google Earth - Earthquakes - download file - 7 day-age kml earthquake layer for Google Earth

Volcano layer - Google Earth - download file

Minerals

Minerals A-Z

Mineral Database - very complete, mineral name fill in field on right side of screen

Mineral Key - a simplified method for identification of a few minerals from the Mineral Society of America

Minerals and Rocks Webquest/review -

Rock Cycle review -

Classzone Rock Cycle -

Classzone Igneous Rocks - sequence of pages

National Aeronautic and Space Administration

Hubble Space Telescope home page

Hubble Mission pages from NASA

Hubble Space Telescope - the Mission from the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins Univ.

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Chandra Telescope Mission - the Mission from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University

Spitzer Infrared Telescope from NASA

Spitzer Telescope Mission - the Mission from Jet Propulsion Labs at California Institute of Technology

Space Articles

Space Bones - Space travel effect on bones

Pluto Not a Planet - New York Times

Pluto - Why is Pluto no Longer a Planet?

Pluto just a dwarf -

Constellations Webquest

Constellations - click on this tab for the assignment

Space

The Solar System - The late-Nine Planets - and all their moons and assorted debris

The Solar System - Starchild from NASA - two levels of learning, basic level with audio files for ELL help

Solar System Exploration So what's NASA been up to in the Solar System?

Moon Phases - reset date to durrent month and year for current moon phase pictures

Mars Exploration Rovers - the homepage for Spirit and Opportunity

Tunguska Event - meteor, UFO, comet, whatever? June 30, 1908 Tunguska, Siberia, mentioned in National Geographic's "Asteroid: Deadly Impact" profiling Eugene Shoemaker and Shoemaker-Levy 9

Cosmology - A primer on the Big Bang et al.

Climate Change

Global Climate Change from NASA and Jet Propulsion Lab

Educational Global Climate Modeling Columbia University and NASA software for modeling research (EdGCM). With all the talk about global warming what abut Snowball Earth?

Fact or Fiction - Day After Tomorrow - use this site to list climate change v. movie story

Day After Tomorrow Internet Movie Database

Day After Tomorrow Bad Science - So could those people freeze so fast? Wunderground weather site answers

More DAT Bad Science - University of Sydney weighs in - some good links to information

Movie Physics - analysis of the movie

Ice Shelf Collapse - Earth Observatory article on Larsen B ice shelf

Solar Projects

Solar cookers.org - plans and ideas about using solar energy for cooking and water purification

Jewish World Watch - solar cooker project