Hello, from
Mrs. Miller
8C Physical Science!
Hi parents and students,
As you are cleaning your rooms and basements
this summer, do NOT throw away those USED
pencils and colored pencils...my classroom
can definitely use them as you are about to go
school-shopping and get NEW ONES!!!
(Students love those little 3 inch ones!)
PLEASE bring them to my room, it will be a
GREAT excuse to say HI! (THANKS!)
Hugs, Mrs. M.
I hope all of my students are having a
FUN summer!
As most of you know, I will be in 8th grade
Physical Science (8C) next year.
I have loved my 14 years of 6th grade, but
I am VERY EXCITED to move to 8th grade
and teach physical science again. This was
the curriculum in 6th grade until a few
years ago and it holds MANY MANY
LABS AND ACTIVITIES and you will love it
as much as I do!
Here are some Web sites to explore on rainy days...
Physics Links For Kids:
http://www.links4kids.co.uk/physics.htm
Build An Atom:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0501/es0501page05.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Sport Science:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html
Educational Games - Structure of an Atom:
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/physics/matter/index.html
The Particle Adventure:
http://particleadventure.org/index.html
Creative Chemistry:
http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/
Build Your Own Roller Coaster!:
http://kids.discovery.com/games/rollercoasters/buildacoaster.html
- Weird Physics Videos, youtube playlist
- PBS NOVA, online videos
- NPR Science Friday radio show's audio archive
- Annals of Improbable Research
- billjb stumbles, my science- links reviews at stumbleupon.com
- The Experts' great secret (become a hobbyist who surpasses professionals)
- Disciplined Minds, management's abuse of creative scientists
- Edupic photos free for edu. use
- Powers of Ten, The Simpsons
- Amateur balloon cam to 85,000 feet!
- Up in the sky! It's Jehhhhhhht Maaaannnnnn!
- Hyper-stereo goggles
- Scientific American archive from 1800s
- Warning stickers from future decades
- Bigger, Better Balls: making ball lightning at home
- The UW's DIDSON Underwater sonar camera, a paper, and an earlier version LIMIS
- Brainiac Science Abuse (youtube)
- Unusual Vehicles
- The War on Curiosity
- Wood's Hole essay archive
- Personalities of researchers
- Phantograms!
- Exploring the "Edge"
- Polygon waves in fluid vortex
- Timelapse Gizeh walk
- Symposium lectures, synthesized
- Balloon animals?
- Lord Buckley's Beat Einstein poem
- Cloud Holes
- Electric ice needles
- Pulse laser plasma dots
- Which ideas are Dangerous? (Edge magazine)
- Archive: Physics News Update weekly column
- Museum of Retro Technology
- Bloody implant gives Magnetic senses. Ew!
- Guided Tour of EM (mpeg diagrams)
- Hans Bethe speaks!
- What is it?
- Mathematical Thinking in Physics, from NASA Glenn
- Synthetic ringtones
- Scotchtape Polyhedra
- The big list of topics at How Stuff Works
- Manta rays
- Octopus Videos
- Vanishing octopus from the Cephbase archive
- Seattle Aquarium: shark eating octopus (play the video)
- The Mimic octopus as walking coconut and drifting seaweed.
- Octopus with video skin
- Pulpo fiction
- MIT desktop fab labs
- Lab Notes Berkely Eng.
- Quicksand effect wo/water
- Backscatter x-ray cam
- Psych experiments (psycho!)
- Flikr sort: "Science"
- Earth's b-field over time
- Make a CRT from scratch
- Animations on Mathworld.com
- Human walks
- 100 things to do in life
- Silly Molecule Names
- Escher solid modling
- McMurdo Station News, and jello
- Victorian Robots
- Kevan.org simulations, games, psycho!
- Science Meetup service
- Sci/Eng Visualization Challenge
- Sodium blast
- McCulloch illusion
- Sidney Harris cartoons
- Conway's "Life" simulator
- Things to Make and Do
- Kids & Science (Tech. U. of Vienna
- Circular holes in clouds
- EPOD Earth Science Picture of the Day, and archive
- Anthrax neckties, Staphlococcus boxer shorts, etc.
- UK television show: Rough Science
- Stupid movie physics
- Nuke explosions, weird shapes in the first instant
- "Eye tubes", green electron glows, some w/animation,
- Bio, Chem, and Math with Tom Lehrer
- or try Flanders/Swann First & Second Thermo song (mp3)
- They had fun naming the The Johnson Solids
- Optical Illusions, and more
- Geoffrey Pyke, demented genius
- Improbable articles
- Hair Club For Scientists
- backwash.com: science: fun, weird, gross
- Heddy Lamar, actress, military designer, invented Spread Spectrum radio
- Webby awards: Science & Edu
- Getty Museum: Devices of Wonder
- Becoming Human
- NASA Earth Observatory
- e-Nature
- PLUS magazine
- Molecular Expressions: optics/microscopy
- Cave of Lascaux
- The Exploratorium
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- NASA Space Science
- NASA Starchild
- Russian sci. anecdotes from M. Perakh
- To Ride a Trebuchet, man-hurling catapult!
- Calresco, complexity & a-life
- matchrockets.com, science experiements
- Atom Flowers, electron orbitals
- Scientists' wagers
- John Bently, the Snowflake man
- My mother, the scientist
- UW's realtime sonar camera, and images
- Hidden Images inserted in music spectra
- Ripple-tank applet, also others
- History of hobbyist computing
- Moon wiggles, as viewed from Earth
- Liquid Nitrogen Icecream Recipe
- Stupid Movie Physics
- ONLINE VIRTUAL REALITY WORLDS (free Adobe plugin)
- BBC Science Shack
- Experimental Musical Instruments
- Sodaplay Constructor (amazing animated ball/spring JAVA sim)
- Lavalamp-generated haiku
- Become a Brain Donor
- Heavens-above: look for IST, shuttle, satellites, etc.
- SciFaiku!
- ZORB! zorb, zorb, zorb.
- Fly powered model airplanes
- "Hummingbird" flying platform
- SoloTrek personal flying machine
- Huge man-made tornadoes from Reelefx Inc.
- PhysicsLimericks
- Fractal video feedback
- Science-a-Go-Go (excellent online forum, strange news items)
- Studmuffins of Skepticism 1999 calander
- Institute of Druidic Technology :)
- Lasers made from White Paint!
- Bionic Design at NAIR (.jp)
- Inventor of the Week Archive at the Invention Dimension
- The Scientific Method (from the founder of EDMUND SCIENTIFIC)
- Virtual Physics Demos (in Java, etc.)
- Fractal Art Webring
- Lifesmith's Fractals Hotlinks
- The Meteorite Exchange
- Delightful Machines
- Why Files: Oddball Research
- PHYSLINK physics fun
- Searching for the 1997 Greenland meteorite
- J. Walker's FOURMILAB
- MIT Ants
- Smart-Tech Demos: Alife, CAs, fuzzy, neural, genetic-alg, brains, etc.
- J. Cramer's Alternate View articles from Analog SF
- Fantastic Forest at Nat. Geographic
- The "Notochords" science music?
- Submarine Races
- Infinite Fractal Loop (fractal gallery webring)
- Gallery of atomic microscope (STM) art
- Telson Spur, Phil Hughe's gigantic science links collection
- Cliff Pickover page
- Visible Human project
- Mushroom clouds
- Aerogel Photo Gallery from MMG Berkeley
- Innocent Inanimate Objects (shot by large caliber guns)
- New Scientist Magazine: "Last Word" Q&A
- BioMedNet HMSbeagle newsletter
- Turtle Trax
- aLife Garden, design your own Artificial Life creature
- "Complexity" at Exploratorium
- Animated Human Anatomy
- Flying Contraptions
- How Things Work:The physics of everyday life
- Illusions and Perception online exhibit
- The Live Articial Life Page
- Leeches
- Chindogu, the art of useless inventions
- Earth and Sky radio show
- Characterization of Organic Illumination Systems (pickles!)
- Wheelchairs with Legs
- "OMNISCIENCE FUTURENEERING"
- Weather Reports for USA locations
- Weather Satellites GIFs & Movies
- Bee Eye view of the world
- AGD Science Antics/Mayhem
- Cells Alive!
- Flapping Wings! The Ornithopter Home Page
- Particle Adventure!
- Tele-Garden Robot
- Waseda Univ. Humanoid Project Home Page
- Just For Middle School Kids
- Electronic Zoo
- Southwestern Archaeology
- Mars Multi-Scale Map
- Survival Research Labs Dangerous robotic sculpture
- The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project
- Starting a grill with 10gal of Liquid O2
- Exploratorium Museum
- Bad Science
- Paper Airplane of the month
- Micscape Microscopy page
- Internet Museum of Holography
- Science Jokes
- Preview The Heart
- The Nerdity Test!
- MIT Online Hack Archive (student shennanigans)
- Science Factoids
- The Nine Planets
- Society for Amateur Scientists
- Helping Your Child Learn Science
- Science on Da Web
- Marilyn Vos Savant is WRONG
- MIT 'borgs
- Cold Fusion Page
- Sarfatti's Physics Page
- The Science Club
- A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry
- Space Movie Archive
- Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
- VolcanoWorld
- John Conway's Game of Life
- Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
- NetFrog
- The Face of Venus
- EM pulse Can Crusher at RPI Plasma Dyn. Lab
- THE OFFICIAL TRUTH
- Zen and the Art of Debunkery
- Forteana Page
- Swamp Thing
- Mad Scientist Page
- Forbidden Circuitry (wiretap.spies)
- The Fractal Microscope
- The Belljar
- YOU CAN with Beakman & Jax"
- Bill Nye T.S.G.
- Ask Dr. Neutrino
- MAD SCIENTIST NETWORK Recommended! Large group of scientists!
- Arbor Scientific's catalog
- Journal of Scientific Exploration
- SETI Institute
- PEAR, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
- Frankel's Page, biological anomalies
- Fortean Times magazine
- WARNING: dihydrogenmonoxide!!!
- Chaos at U. Maryland
- Ancient sparkplug inside rock
- Strange Magazine
- Ideas futures, science "stock market"
- INTEC sound camera
- Scott's Weird Web World of Science
- Earth Viewer
- Virtual FlyLab
- Fractal Explorer
- Introduction to Fractals.
- Primordial Soup Kitchen
- The world through the eyes of a bee
- Current and Past Satellite Images
- NrrdGrrl!
- Sprott's Fractal Gallery
- Comet Hale-Bopp
- Stanford University Tour
- The Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Space Theater
- Backyard Ballistics!
- Fun with Grapes - A Case Study
- Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
- Flaming Poptart Blowtorches
- The OTHER Flaming Poptart Blowtorch site
- The Outrageous On-Line Uncle Al
My own NEAT STUFF
- SURPLUS JUNK SUPPLIERS and other cool catalog companies
- NEW STUFF list
- COOL STUFF list
- Supermagnet Tricks & Demos
- Evil genius hi-tech practical joke ideas, also MORE.
- Soda-bottle voltage-motor
- My "electricity" articles
- Draw Holograms By Hand
- New and different build-it projects
- Strange and twisted build-it projects
- Dangerous Capacitor-bank Experiments
- Magnetic Levitation
- Screwy Ideas
- Ball Lightning Page
- Widespread mistakes in science textbooks.
- Science taboos, ridiculed geniuses
- My Answers to science questions
- "Static Electric" Stuff
- VandeGraaff Generator Page
- Free Energy "perpetual motion" machines
- Mysterious electrostatic air-threads
- Weird Science section
- Amateur Science section
- Sci. Education Resources
- Tesla coil section
Atoms:
- http://www.chem4kids.com/files/atom_naming.html
- http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/lessons/lesson53.htm
- http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/6-react.htm
- http://www.chem4kids.com/files/react_intro.html
- http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/chem_reactions.html&edu=mid
Chemistry, Matter, Atomic Structure:
- http://education.jlab.org/qa/pen_number.html
- http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/lsps07.sci.phys.matter.theatom/
- http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/chemzone/02atomic-structure/
- http://science.widener.edu/svb/tutorial/protons.html
Compounds and Mixtures:
- http://www.darvill.clara.net/hotpots/emc.htm
- http://www.chem4kids.com/extras/quiz_mattermix/index.html
- http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/atoms/elements.html
- http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/106Amixture.html
- http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/MixturesandSolutions/index.html
- http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002198.shtml
- http://www.syvum.com/cgi/online/serve.cgi/squizzes/chem/elements_compounds_mixtures.html
- http://www.dmturner.org/Teacher/Library/5thText/ChemPart2.htm
- http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/lessons/lesson14.htm
- http://westfieldnj.com/eis/team6/Separating%20Mixture_files/frame.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/mixture/mixture.html
Gases: Changes in States of Matter: Physical and chemical changes and properties: States of Matter: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
CREATE A GRAPH:
Food:
The following are from a SCIENCE HOBBY LIST:
See you later,
Mrs. Miller
