Cool Science Sites!

Updated Friday, April 30, 2010

Rare Pink Iguana on the Galapagoes! Mutations!

Watch a rabbit decompose (here!)

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Downloadable practice sheets from class
(chart word format) (picture chart word format)

ONLINE REVIEW GAMES FOR QUIZ
Quia Practice Quiz: Here <---- Ms. Wong's version!

Wheel of Life Species Identification Activity
(Download the word doc first and fill it out using the links below!)

WWF Wildlife Finder
Animal Diversity Database
Boldsystem Taxonomy Broswer
Marine Species Database
US Plant Database
Wikapedia (LAST RESORT!)

Create-a-creature research links!
Classification information
Classification of Mammals
Creating a scientific name

Whale Evolution...Click here!

Freaky Bird Clip CLICK HERE!

To complete your "Bird Beak Adaptation" homework, CLICK HERE Email me if there are any problems!

SEM image of the X and Y Chromosomes

GENETICS TEST PRACTICE QUIZZES
Matching (ignore transfer RNA and messenger RNA)
Challenge Board Game (punnett square practice...etc..)
Battleship (General genetics)
Matching (codominance is incomplete dominance)
Pass the Gene (practice with dominant and recessive)

Conjoined Twins on Oprah here

TOUR OF THE BASICS website here!
-use this website to finish the "Tour of the Basics" sheet you started in class.

NYC High School Students' Discovery video clip

Zooming into DNA (see real pictures of what DNA actually looks like and other such cool things)

Your Genetics Questions click (here)

Cracking the Code
(The race to decode the human genome and other very cool things)

Freshwater plant cells (400X) in freshwater

Freshwater plant cells (400X) in saltwater

Cell vocabulary Quia Practice Quizzes
Rags to Ritches (ignore chromatin),
Matching,
Hangman,
Matching,
Misc games,
exchange with the environment,
Battleship (ignore rough ER and smooth ER)

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EGG SONG! (english) (korean)

Nova Marathon Challenge Video. Watch the full video here!

NPR-How a virus invades your body! Video clip

The Inner workings of the cell (awesome animations!) Video clip
(thank you HD!!!)

BUILD YOUR OWN MICROSCOPE!

Simple microscope

Bottle Microscope

VIRTUAL MICROSCOPES!

Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope (molecular expressions)

Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope Game (discovery school)

Virtual Transmission Electron Microscope (nobelprize.org)

POWERS OF 10! (molecular expressions)

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FIELD TRIP LINKS:

7th grade science wiki site here
Museum of Science exhibit picture here <--updated Tue 10/13
Wiki how to instructions here

Exploratorium (online interactive exhibit)
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STUDENT FINDS PINK GRASSHOPPER! (click here!)

More PINK! Finding the Pink Dolphins in the Amazon. (click here!) ~environmental indicators, how healthy is the Amazon.

Rare pink dolphin in the US. A different species to the ones found in the Amazon (Click here!)