Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The CERN Black Hole

BY: KENT YAMAMOTO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM&feature=related


Large Hadron Collider Rap

BY: KENT YAMAMOTO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM



Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/05/freaky-physics-proves-parallel-universes/

Scientists Discover Heavy New Element

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/science/07element.html


Slinky In Space

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/st8/sailmast/index.shtml (Scroll down to the bottom of this website to view a video an example of how a slinky is used in space)

Darwin Beetle Battle Video Clip AND GAME

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/life-the-series-videos/?bcid=68149778001 (WATCH FIRST)

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/life/insects/fight-like-a-darwins-beetle-quiz.html (PLAY AFTER)

(Images copyright by Mark A. Chappell)

The Waterfall Toad-Life Series on Discovery Channel

Sorry, but you have to watch the commercial before getting to the video clip.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/life-the-series-videos/?bcid=68149778001

Are Sports More Important Than School?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080825092351.htm

Vitamin G: Video Games and You

This link is from another science classroom's blog by one of the students. PLAY THE GAME FIRST BEFORE READING WHAT THEY WROTE!!

http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2010/03/09/vitamin-g-video-games-and-you/

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Were the Olympics Green?

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/carbon-offsets-and-recycling-bins-green-olympics-do-not-make

Weight Lifting Ants

INCLUDES YouTube CLIP!!

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/load-bearing-ant-carries-100-times-its-body-weight-well-photo-competition

(image courtesy of University of Cambridge)

Try this at home...

http://foodscience.psu.edu/public/kitchen-chemistry/classroom

Food Science YouTube Clip

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLBjQb1rUw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72eHuIakdLc

(image courtesy of www.accessexcellence.org)

Compounds Created to Fight Viruses

BY: BEN KOTZUBEI

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/01/compound.found.targets.wide.range.viruses

Black Hole Simulator Video Clip

BY: DECLAN SAVIANO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/11/black-hole-simulator-uses_n_458094.html





(image courtesy of http://www.spacetoday.org)

LEGO Robot Solves Any Rubiks Cube in Less Than 12 seconds

INCLUDES VIDEO CLIPS!!!

BY: KENT YAMAMOTO

http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/lego-robot-solves-any-rubiks-cube-in-less-than-12-seconds-video/

Diamond Oceans

BY: HOWARD DESHONG


http://news.discovery.com/space/diamond-oceans-jupiter-uranus.html

(Getty Images)

Bad Astronomy-Supernova

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/no-a-nearby-supernova-wont-wipe-us-out/

Friday, January 29, 2010

Robotics Blog

By: KENT YAMAMOTO

http://roboticsblog.org/2009/new-robots/robot-duo-learn-to-play-flute-and-saxophone-music/

(Image courtesy of Waseda University)

Charles Darwin Video

By: EMMA WERNIG

http://www.allaboutscience.org/charles-darwin-video.htm

(Image from http://nayagam.wordpress.com/2006/02/12/celebrating-evolution/)

Kitchen Chemistry

By: MAYA FLANNERY

http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/kitchenchemistry/

Gorilla Carry Malignant Malaria Parasite

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119133517.htm

(Image courtesy of iStockphoto/Guenter Guni)

Your Weight on Different Worlds

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html

Color Matters- Color Blindness

http://www.colormatters.com/v_colorblind.html

Dino-bite

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20100113/Feature1.asp

(Image courtesy of National Academy of Sciences)

Life in the Universe YouTUbe Clips

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HLIOnTapE

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAshug2IKaI&feature=related

Physics Games

http://www.physicsgames.net/game/IncrediBots_2.html

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Kepler Telescope Discovers 5 New Planets

By: HOWARD DESHONG

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010401366.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Mosquito Matchmaking

By: BRANDON FONG

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091231164739.htm

A Squirt of Stem Cell Gell Heals Brain Injuries

By: MAYA FLANNERY

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/squirt-stem-cell-gel-heals-brain-injuries

The (Kids') Eyes Have It

By: MAYA FLANNERY

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20091209/Note2.asp

Cancer Plaguing Tasmanian Devils

By: VICTORIA KNIGHT

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/52286/title/Cancer_plaguing_Tasmanian_devils_began_in_one_animals_nerve_cells

All About Grasshoppers

http://www.sidney.ars.usda.gov/grasshopper/ID_Tools/F_Guide/extanat.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/orthoptera/labelgrasshopper/ (Label grasshopper anatomy)

Salmon Dissection

http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00548/Dissection.html

Cow's Eye Dissection

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/

Blood Typing Interactive Game

http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/