Albin's  Science
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Monday - Friday    Jan 29 - Feb 2                     8th Science 

Monday

Read and follow instructions (on Froguts) carefully.  You CAN figure it out.  Enjoy this activity and notice the heart and circulatory system as you go.

click the "Demos" button in upper right corner to get started
Do the frog first, then owl pellet

Froguts.com virtual frog dissection

http://froguts.com/flash_content/index.html

on paper:  write the steps you take to perform this dissection

include:  each cut, pin, and organ removed

you write:
   1.  pin frog - all 4 feet
   2.  slice - lengthwise throat to belly
                   crosswise throat
                   crosswise belly
and so on ...

more dissections to  explore:

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/Frog2/

worm dissection:  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/zoolab/Table_of_Contents/Lab-6b/Earthworm_Model_1/earthworm_model_1.htm

http://sps.k12.ar.us/massengale/earthworm_dissection.htm

 

Tuesday

GET BUSY ON:
bulletModern Evidence for Evolution pp177-179
bulletComparing circulatory systems worksheet
bulletlabel the parts, use your book
bulletturn in at end of period, done or not
bulletanswer wrapup questions on this worksheet

Evolving Earth, pp 180-181

bulletread
bulletanswer questions ON PAPER
 

Wednesday

Tracking Those Tracks pp 184-186   
  1. get paper ready
  2. make notebook entry of step 2
              describe what you see   (evidence)
              what might explain this pattern (inference)
  3. answer the wrapup questions, considering the entire three-part picture of tracks shown by Mr. A.
 

Thursday

LIGO science fair
bulletvisiting  scientists
bulletbringing to us demos and exhibits
bulletwe go experience their cool
 

Friday

Quiz:  the three steps of conclusion writing

Monday Quiz:  on knowledge from Changing Horses Midstream

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/

SRF   Science Reading Friday

bulletafter finishing your quiz get a book from Sci library
bullet 30 minutes of the period
bulletno talking
bulletuse our library to read about something of interest to you
bulletbuild a ppt about it

 

new

and

interesting

and

relevant

and

SCIENCE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6117880.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6114962.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6112476.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108090.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6111528.stm

http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=971

http://www.care2.com/news/member/525634130/212599

 

coming soon
to a science classroom near you

 

 

 

ecosystems sites 

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/living/03b_act.shtml

food web:  http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/foodweb/foodweb.html

http://www.oceansonline.com/oceanicfoodwebs.htm

http://www3.umassd.edu/Public/Exhibit/DES300/game/web-fr.htm

http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/human/foodweb.html

 

online build an african web: http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

food chain:
http://www.planetpals.com/foodchain.html

 

http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html

 

 

 

e-waste

tuna

UK birds

spy killer
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6187358.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6187228.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6185548.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6181688.stm
 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4780876.stm  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4815230.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6041570.stm  Venus

 

current
        websites
WASL expectations:    What You Should Know
  1. Changes in Systems
  2. Properties of Systems
  3. Structure of Systems

 

Translate
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
               or
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
 
current  
           science

 

Science/Nature various
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2006/09/04/science/index.html
 

current
           birds

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds

 

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