Satellite Images of Earth Features

This is a very cool site....http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/educators/

You can find satellite images of all kinds of landforms and features, and identify them by latitude and longitude

The Periodic Table

This site http://www.dayah.com/periodic/ has several dynamic ways of looking at the Periodic Table. It can also be printed

Internet Research

The Internet may be a great free for all, but the content does belong to the author/owner of a site. Students need to be reminded that information gleaned from a website must be credited to that site and author. It is also not sufficient to indicate that the material came from http://www.amnh.org/; they also need to cite the NAME of the site, and if possible the author and date that the material was posted.

A great weather site

http://www.weather.com/outlook/homeandgarden/schoolday/11106?x=0&lswe=11106&lswa=SchooldayIndex&y=0

This site not only gives the local weather report hour by hour, but shows the temperature and wind chill as a graph

Science Research Project for Grade 8

In this area I am going to post some information that will help you with your Science Research Project. If you have any questions about this project, you can post them here also, and I will assist you. Here is a list of topic ideas. More will be added soon.

Science Fair Topic Ideas

Note: All projects must be an investigation with a stated hypothesis, and carried out using the scientific method. They should be related to grade specific curriculum topics.

Thermal insulators
Buoyant force
Heat transfer - convection , conduction, radiation
Heat absorption and reflection
Heat storing capacity of materials
Alternative energy sources
Measuring Dew Point
Accuracy of long range weather forecasting
Fluid viscosity and temperature
Friction
Pendulums
Surface tension
Solutions and boiling/freezing point of water
Solutions solubility and temperature
Using simple machines to reduce force
Ramps and velocity



Percentage of seeds that germinate
Plant hormones and seed germanation
Plant height
Number of leaves
Tropisms
Plants and light color
Paper chromatography
Location of plant growth regions
M&M camouflage
Variations in a population


Climate and population
Greenhouse effect
Global warming
Volcanic eruptions and climate
Porosity of earth materials
Permeability

Interesting and Useful Web Links

In this area, I am going to post web sites that I think will be of interest to you. Please feel free to post sites that you find also.

Welcome

welcome to my new blog. I will be posting some of my thoughts about middle school science instruction here.