Listed
below are web sites that you might find useful in doing an independent,
extra credit project,
report or web quest for your InterActions class, or for a related activity
like a science fair. When you cite on-line or off-line sources in
your work, follow the guidelines in the Citations
& References guidelines (pdf).
Quick Menu:
General Science Sites
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 Faultline, Solar
Max, Solar Eclipse, and the two subsections below:
Global
Climate Change. This site discusses the subject of global
warming/climate change in a student-friendly way. The
site discusses the research, the evidence, and the possible
effects.
Exploratorium
Sports Science. Remember
all the sports examples in InterActions? This site stresses
the connection between sports and science.
Science
News for Kids. This site has current science news articles on physics,
chemistry, the environment, technology and more, along with games,
puzzles, and a science fair zone with news and tips. Updated weekly!
The
Science Spot. This
is a general site for middle school or junior high lessons and science-related
links, including a number of interactive links. See especially the Science
Spot Kid Zone.
Scientific
American.
This is the web site for America's leading non-specialist science
magazine. The site has plenty of current science news
articles. In addition, 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.
Wikipedia,
the On-line Free Encyclopedia.
This site is good place to begin searching for information on
a wide variety of topics, including numerous scientific topics
and history of science topics. Because almost anyone can
contribute to Wikipedia, you should be a little wary of the information
you get from Wikipedia, and try to avoid using Wikipedia as a primary
source.
"Hands-On" Science Sites
Bill
Nye the Science Guy. The
best part of the site is a number of home labs and experiments
that you can do.
Science
Bob. Science Bob shows how
to conduct several experiments at home. Some well-known young
actors are featured doing science experiments.
ZOOM!
Science Activities. Connected to the popular PBS show
ZOOM!, this
site has some activities that tie in directly to InterActions.
Energy, Environment and Space
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.
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 InterActions might
include global warming and the use of energy resources.
NASA
For science articles, check Exploring
the Universe and Life
on Earth. These two pages have some science articles on the main
page. However, you will find many more articles by clicking on the
gray sidebars on the left under Exploring the Universe or Life on
Earth. Also, check out Popular
Topics and the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
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.
Nine
Planets This site offers
introductions to the eight planets, their satellites and other
Solar System objects, including Pluto (the "ex-ninth planet"), asteroids,
comets and Kuiper Belt Objects.
Physics
Cavendish
Experiment. This page explains
the Cavendish Experiment in some detail.
Fear
of Physics. The name of
this site ought to elicit interest just by itself. This site
helps explain several physics ideas addressed by InterActions,
and others that are extensions of InterActions, 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.
Listed
below are web sites that you might find useful in doing an independent,
extra credit project,
report or web quest for your InterActions class, or for a related activity
like a science fair. When you cite on-line or off-line sources in
your work, follow the guidelines in the