Links

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**General Science Sites:**
 * [|Energy Webquest from Canada]
 * [|California Energy Page for Students]
 * [|Department of Energy for Kids]
 * [|Wind Power]
 * [|Coast Electric Power for Kids] Coal, Natural Gas and More
 * A Super Link Page -[|Australian Energy Links]


 * [|Bill Nye the Science Guy] - A very simple site but has several activities you can do at home. We will see a few of Bill Nye's episodes this year.
 * [|Exploratorium] - The Exploratorium web site has a number of good articles and activities for students. For articles, the [|Explore section] has a number of useful subsections, especially Sports Science (see below), Global Climate Change, Faultline, Solar Max and Solar Eclipse.
 * [| Exploratorium Sports Science] -A cool site for understanding science around your favorite sports.
 * [|How Stuff Works] - This site has lots of information about how different machines work, along with tons of other information. See especially [|science stuff], [|electronics stuff], [|home stuff] and [|auto stuff].
 * [|New Scientist]. New Scientist describes itself as the world’s number one science and technology news service. With the variety of news articles available here, written in easy-to-understand non-technical language, this may be the best site on the web for students doing projects that involve reading and analyzing science articles. The news articles are free. To read feature articles, you need to subscribe, but you can read the archive of feature articles for seven days without charge.
 * [|Science News]. This is a science news weekly that may contain a few interesting articles.
 * [|Scientific American]. This is the web site for America’s leading non-specialist science magazine. You could use this as a site to look for a topic to research. For the magazine itself, check out your school library or your public library.
 * [|Smithsonian for Kids]: Science and Nature. The best part is the [|Lemelson Center’s Invention at Play site], which is interactive and covers some of our class topics.
 * [|Wikipedia, the On-line Free Encyclopedia]. This site is good place to start searching for information on a wide variety of topics, including numerous scientific topics and history of science topics. Be careful though, content here is created by users so be sure to check the reference with another source.
 * [|Famous Inventors A-Z] - This site created by About.com is a great resource to look up inventors as well as inventions.

**Physics:**

[|EWEB SOLAR CHALLENGE]
 * [|Cavendish Experiment] - Outlines the details of the Cavendish Experiement.
 * [|Energy Kid’s Page] - The U.S. Department of Energy’s site for kids. Information and activities related to energy resources. See particularly "Related Links" page.
 * [|Energy Quest] - This is a student site sponsored by the State of California. This site is concerned with energy resource education, but it also features a set of more [|general science and environment links], which students doing web-based research might find useful.
 * [|Fear of Physics] - The name of this site ought to elicit interest just by itself. This site helps explain several physics ideas addressed by CIPS, and others that are extensions of our class, like the Doppler effect.
 * [|Physics.org]. This site is useful for its search engine. You need to register, but registration is free. When doing a search, first set age to "11-14" and knowledge level to "School (basic)". If this doesn’t turn up any articles (or nothing useful), reset age to "14-16" or knowledge level to "School (intermediate)," and try again.
 * [|Physics Java Applets] - I use several of these applets as demonstrations in class. You will need to download Java if your browser does not have this as a plugin at home. All computers at school will display these demos.


 * Chemistry:**


 * **[|Famous Chemists]**
 * **[|Funbrain Periodic Table]**
 * [|Model Science Game Quiz Periodic Table]
 * [|Chem4Kids Game Quiz]
 * [|Chem4Kids] - This site is a great overview/review of the chemical topics we will be exploring this year.


 * [|Chemicool] This is an excellent website with lots of good info on your element.
 * [|Periodic Table Interactive Lesson]
 * [|It's Elemental]
 * [|Elements and the Periodic Table]
 * [|Tom Leher's "The Elements"]
 * [|Elements, Mixtures, & Compounds]
 * [|School of Elements]
 * [|Elements Database]
 * [|Chemical Elements] - Another site that provides quick element data.
 * [|Webelements Periodic Table] - A great site that has detailed information about the elements. This site would be useful during our Element Cube Research Project.
 * [|Periodic Table of Elements] - This site was created by The Los Alamos National Laboratory as a chemical resource for elementary, middle, and high school students. You can use this site to help you with your Element Cube Research Project.
 * [|Zoom Kitchen Chemistry] - This sites includes a virtual kitchen so you can experiment safely!

**Environment:**
 * [|EPA Global Warming Site] This site provides an overview of the causes of global warming and some of its possible side effects.
 * [|Greenscreen] - This site offers kids a chance to participate in an essay contest on topics related to the environment. Topics related to our class might include global warming and the use of energy resources.
 * [|The Environmental New Network] - ENN is a great non-partisan news source in the field of environmental science and policy.
 * [|Alternative Fuels Data Center] - As the world's crude oil supply deminshes, we will need to utilize other fuel types. This site was developed by the US Department of Energy.

Oceanography:

[|Jacque Cousteau Oceanography] **Technology Links:**
 * [|The Gimp] - Gimp stands for: GNU Image Manipulation Program. Its a freely distributed image editing program. Similar to photoshop, the Gimp takes time to learn but hey, its free!
 * [|Comic Life] - Many students ask about how to get this program. Unfortunately, it is only available on Mac and costs $24.95. It is on all the school computers.
 * [|Nettrekker] -This is an excellent research tool for finding articles that all Eugene SD4j students can access.

Biology Links:
> > Teacher Resources:
 * [|Biology of Plants] - In early 2005, the Missouri Botanical Garden launched it's newest addition to the MBGnet site: The Biology of Plants. This site is based on the Biology of Plants video series, geared to grades K-3.
 * [|Biomes from Enchanted Learning] - Enchanted Learning comes with printable, color-me animals that are linked from each biome page. There is also a printable Biome calendar, which features a different biome to color each month. Enchanted Learning will be a sure hit with elementary students.
 * [|Biomes of the World] - Six terrestrial biomes (rainforests, desert, tundra, grasslands, taiga, and temperate) are covered in depth in these attractive pages from the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Each biome topic includes pages on plants and animals, a photo gallery and a links section. Straight-forward text and beautiful photos make this great site for elementary and middle-school report writers.
 * [|Blue Planet World Biomes] - In this site you will discover facts about our planet, its complex patterns of biomes, plants, and animals, and how climates ultimately determine the biomes of our Earth. This site was created to teach students the power of the Internet as a tool for both communication and learning, and how to use this tool while at the same time express their scientific/environmental knowledge in a fun way.
 * [|Discovery School Learning Adventures] - Discovery Education provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes with the goal of making educators more effective, increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning.
 * [|Explore Learning Gizmo Collection] - ExploreLearning offers a catalog of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 6-12. We call these simulations Gizmo's.
 * [|Exploratorium: Science Snacks] - This web site is full of Snacks...but they're not the kind you eat. They're the kind you can learn from and have fun with. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniatrue versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium.
 * [|How Stuff Works] - HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages.
 * [|Kinetic City] - The most amazing collection of science experiments, activities, games, challenges and more.
 * [|Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab] - Your source of free science experiments for parents, teachers, and children of all ages. Kick off your shoes. Pull up a chair. Make yourself comfortable. Oh yeah, did we mention that protective goggles are required.
 * [|U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] - Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
 * [|U.S. Fish and Wildlife] - National Wetlands Inventory
 * [|World's Biomes] - The mission of the University of California Museum of Paleontology is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education.
 * [|Kids Gardening] - NGA (National Gardening Association) is a leading national provider of K-12, plant-based educational materials. With teachers and community leaders serving as guides, our school and youth gardening programs help children gain knowledge in science, literacy, social studies, nutrition, the environment, and personal skills areas such as leadership, problem-solving, and team building.
 * [|NOVA] - NOVA Online offers teachers quick access to more than 500 of the popular science program's educational resources in its expanded Teachers site, which includes a searchable database of program information, activities, and other classroom tools.