Forces Slideshow

 

Gravity Brainpop

 

Buoyancy Brainpop

 

Bill Nye Performs Static Electricity Experiments

 

Electric Charge: Crash Course Physics

Can tanks tear these phonebooks apart?

See how much friction 2 phone books have when interweaved together!

Study Jams has videos on forces and motion, simple machines, newton's 3 laws, acceleration & gravity. Check this out!

Great videos and practice tests that help to explain forces & motion. ***Make sure you click on the topic cards for forces & motion***

Why does a balloon stick to the wall if you rub it on your hair? Watch this video for the explanation

Physical Science Lab "Force and Newton's Laws"

Watch what happens when an astronaut drops a feather and hammer on the moon where there is less air resistance.

See what happens when Galileo drops different objects from the "Leaning Tower of Pisa." You can try this with air and without air (vacuum).

Play games with gravity

Go to the racing station and see how different racetracks affect friction and speed.

Watch this video to review asexual and sexual reproduction

Click or tap on an organism. After reading a description, you'll get to vote on whether you think the organism reproduces sexually, asexually, or both. *If you are correct the answer will light up green. *If you are wrong the answer will light up red. How well do you know your reproductive strategies?

Learn about the life cycles of a bird, frog, butterfly and mosquito

How does a zygote develop into a human baby?

Genetic Engineering helps a boy who went blind to see again

A short news clip on the cloning of dogs.

A clip from 60 minutes

A movie about DNA and hereditary diseases

Watch how to extract DNA from strawberries. This is something you can try at home!

This is the short video I showed before we did the DNA extraction lab in class

An example of selective breeding

This is a short video giving examples of selective breeding on a farm

watch this short video to see how genetic engineering has helped a boy see

Use this website to help you study important vocabulary terms for the genetics unit

Check out this video to see how scientists use DNA to determine the heritage of dogs.

Webquest

Learn how scientists build and rebuild body parts

This is a clip from the tv show 60 minutes that is about a new technology called reproductive genetics.

This cartoon shows how some bacteria are antibiotic resistant.

Watch the short slide show and then take the quiz

a videoclip to go along with our mystery moth writing

What is antibiotic resistance? How is this an example of natural selection? Watch this short clip to find out

Learn what a paleontologist does and play a fossil game. Can you figure out where each layer belongs?

Story of the evolution of the whale

A reading and video clip on the evolution of camouflage and how it helps as organism survive.

A short news clip

Read the directions on how to play and see how natural selection works

What is a mutation? What causes mutations? Watch this to find out!

Click on mystery elements to begin

Short youtube video that does a good job explaining the differences between physical and chemical changes

username = rhkroth, password = student

Can you sing along?

Watch these videos to learn more about specific elements in the periodic table

Use this site to learn more about the elements in the periodic table

Combine different elements to create compounds!

A great website to learn more about basic chemistry

A good article describing chemical reactions that happen around us every day.

It's a little crazy to think of how small an atom actually is. Mind boggling, in fact. Check this out!

This is a presentation comparing photosynthesis and cellular respiration

This is a video we watched in class to compare and contrast passive and active transport

Try to figure out which type of blood to give to patients who have been in a serious accident.

This is a short video from www.kidshealth.org that explains the parts of the respiratory system that help you breathe.

STUDY STACKS includes games to reinforce the learning of your vocabulary words. There are also practice quizzes and tests for you to take to assess your learning.

Robert Wadlow had a disorder of the pituitary gland. His pituitary gland produced too much human growth hormone. Check out this video to see what he looked like and how this affected his life.

Mr. Young created a video comparing how the endocrine and nervous systems respond to different stimuli.

Read this article to learn more about your digestive system

What's the difference? Watch this video to find out

Watch this cute video to find out how enzymes help speed up your body digesting its food.

Follow the directions to perform and learn more about vascular surgery

Can you keep the cells on the tip of your nose alive?

See some amazing stories about the human body. One example is how a man was carried by a tornado, dropped, and lived to tell about it.

Want to learn more about how the immune system works? Check this website out. It was recommended to me by members of a science club in Texas. Thank you Ms. Britton for contacting me and sharing it.

You be the doctor. Follow the directions to perform a hip replacement.

You be the doctor. Follow the directions to perform knee replacement surgery.

This is really fun! It takes a lot of practice though.