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(Chapter 1)

Research Chewing Gum
Great Idea Finder - Chewing Gum
http://www.bubblegum.com/
 
Hurricane Floyd
Learn about Hurricanes
Hurricane Questions

Some examples of graphs
(consumer expenditures)
(most teens don't smoke)
(cigarette smokers by age)

Scientific Method (page 12)
Chapter 1.1 games
Brainpop.com

Metric System Practice (games too)
World of Measurement
Taking America's Measurement (Great Site)
Much bigger and much smaller metric prefixes

Graph Mini-project

From Galileo to Hubble
The History of Telescopes

Global Sun Temperature Project
Freehold weather today
Get sunrise / sunset times for Freehold
Definitions of sunrise, twilight, etc.

Converting Units
Unit Conversion Calculator
WorldWide Metric Converter
Unit Conversion Calculator (°C to°F)
Science Made Simple Unit Coversion Calculator
The Atom's Family (Paper Cutting)
Temperature Scales: Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin 
SI Units  Practice
US Metric Association
Metric System Cartoons
Questions for Chap. 1.2
Your Weight on Other Worlds
Using a Triple Beam Balance
Games for Chapter 1.2
Making a Graph(page 21 activity)
Bar Graphs / Circle Graphs
bar graphs
 circle graphs
 line graphs

From Galileo to Hubble
The History of Telescopes
November 18, 2001  4:00 A.M. - 6:00 A.M. Leonid Meteor Shower
Read the full story here

(Chapter 2)
Chap. 2.1 notes
Relief map
Questions for Chap. 2.1
Earth
Landforms

Latitude/Longitude Tutorial 
and Crossword Puzzle
Latitude and Longitude Slide Show

Find Your Longitude Game 

Global Sun Temperature Project
Freehold weather today
Unit Conversion Calculator (°C to°F)
The Lonely Planet
The CIA World Factbook
InfoPlease: Countries of the World
Graphs for the Global Sun Temperature Project
Find a Latitude and Longitude
Find distance or lat / long
Pictures-Latitude and Longitude
WorldMap for National Geographic Activity
or use
InfopleaseMaps
PCL Map Collection
Types of Maps

United States Map
World Map
Map Projections
Old Maps
National Geographic Maps
PCL Map Collection
InfopleaseMaps
Round Earth, Flat Maps
Questions worksheet for Chapter 2.2
Degree Confluence Project

December 25, 2000 Eclipse

Topographic Map Project

Chapter 2.3 notes

What is a topographic map?
  (About Topographic Maps)

USGS Information Center

Topographic Map - Freehold, NJ
See some topographic maps of Freehold
Map 1
Map 2
Map 3

 See NEW Jersey's Topography
Choosing Colors for the World

Earth and Moon Viewer

Chapter 2 Study Guide
Chapter 2 Games
Matching
Concentration
Flashcards
Wordsearch

The Mars "Landing" 

(Chapter 3)
Chapter 3.1
Chapter 3.1 Questions Worksheet
The Earth's Layers
(by chemical makeup)
(by physical properties)
(more about layers)
Inside the Earth (Enchanted Learning)
P and S Waves Simulation

Things with Crusts

Chapter 3.2
www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/waves/
Pictures-Seismograph and Shadow Zone
Earthquake Animation
Projects Moho pictures and information

Notes
Chap. 3.1
Chap. 3.2

Chapter 3 Games
Matching
Concentration
Flashcards
Wordsearch

(Black History Month)
African American Astronauts

African American Scientists(a "Word" document)

(Chapter 4)
Information for Activity on Page 76
Skills Worksheet 4.2a
Questions for chapter 4.2
An Unconformity (picture)
Animation (an unconformity)
Grand Canyon (picture)
A Snail Becomes a Fossil
Fossil Game
An Ocean in Kansas ????
Adaptation of organisms
Geologic Time
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/STS-103/index.htm
Chapter 4 Games
Matching
Concentration
Flashcards
Wordsearch
Dinosaur Dig (a game)
Rock Cycle
Dinosaur Eggs
Play some games about Dinosaurs
http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/explore/dinoweb.html

(Chapter 13)

Chapter 13.1
Chapter 13.1 Questions WS
Fossil horses - click on the skulls
Fossil horses - sediment layers
Fossil horses - bones in feet changed
Fun Facts About Fungi
The Five Kingdoms
"A Bacteria Cell"
 "A Plant Cell"
 "An Animal Cell"
Chapter 13.1 Review Questions
Dewey Decimal ClassificationSystem
Questions - page 291
Pictures (Page 291)
Chapter 13.1 Quiz

Chapter 13.2
Virtual Dinosaur Dig
Types of Fossils (13.2)
Chapter 13.2 Review Questions
An Ocean in Kansas ????
Dinosaur Eggs
Wooly Mammoth Fun
Project Prosaurapod
A Snail Becomes a Fossil
Fossil Game

Chapter 13.4
Dinosaur Eggs
Play some games about Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs of New Jersey
Pictures to go with the dinosaur wordsearch
Name That Reptile! (Match dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles with their scientific names.)
The Mystery of the Ankylosaur (Find out!)
Web Time Machine

The Meteorite Simulation Game
or here

Adaptation of organisms
Geologic Time
Geologic Time (Enchanted Learning)
A Simple Geologic Time Scale
Fossil Mysteries - great breakdown of how life evolved
A Great Geologic Time Line
The Fossil's Story (Shasta)
An E Book - The Great Stone of Gwondala
Microbe Zoo
An Interview with a Dinosaur
Dinosaur Dig (links)

Chapter 13 Games:
Matching
Concentration
Flashcards

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/dinosaurs/interactives/dig/dinodig.html
 

Thursday's Lunar Eclipse

Chapter 13.3 Outline
 SCIENTIST REPORT
Scientist links
 

Chapter 13 Games
Matching
Concentration
Flashcards
Wordsearch

(Seasons)
The first day of spring is March 21. What's this all about?
Find out here:   The Seasons
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sun/sun1.html

(Chapter 21)

Energy Begins With the Sun
What are Fossil Fuels?
Earthlights

(Chapter 5)
Continental Drift Animation

All About Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics Quiz

Animation (750 MYA to today)
Animation (today to 750 MYA)

Current Earthquake Data (USGS)

Musical Plates
Musical Plates - Read the Story
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 4
Tectonic Plate Map
Musical Plates Map 
Divergent Boundary / Reverse Polarity Animation
Savage Earth Plate Boundary Animations

 Musical Plates

Global Earthquake Animation (Plates)
Earthquakes from past 24 hours - click a location to see a seismogram
See an example of a transform fault
Future World animation
Paleomap Project
Birth of the Himalayas

Rockhounds - three types of rock

Earth's Active Volcanoes
Volcano World
Volcanoes Online  (a great Thinkquest site)

This Dynamic Earth, the Story of Plate Tectonics
More About Plate Tectonics
Sea Floor Spreading Illustration
As the World Churns

Plate Tectonics Quiz

Web Games
Matching
Concentration
Flashcards
Wordsearch

1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Black Smokers
 Quake in Turkey
Japanese Earthquake

Quia Plate Tectonics Games

(Chapter 7)

Read about the Richter Scale
What do the numbers mean?
The Mercalli Scale
August Quake in Turkey
The Great 1906 
San Francisco Earthquake

Volcano World
Make a Quake-Test a Building
Pictures of Earthquake Devastation
 National Geographic Mountain of Fire
 

(Chapter 14.1)

The Water Cycle 
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
THE WATER CYCLE
Phases of Water
Surface Tension
Water Science
How Much Water Does it Take to Grow a Hamburger?
Concentration Game
Matching Game
Flashcards

http://www.scilinks.org/harcourt
 

(Chapter 15)

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/water/default.htm
http://www.palomar.edu/oceanography/salty_ocean.htm
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/density.html&edu=high
UN Atlas of the Oceans

Movie of Coriolis Effect
 The Coriolis Effect
 The Coriolis Force
 https://www.angelfire.com/nj/PflommScience/chap15tides.htm
 Information about tides
 http://www.fearofphysics.com/SunMoon/sunmoon.html  
How Do the Phases Get Their Names?
 The Seasons
Wind With Miller
Look Up Tide Patterns
 
Matching Game (Ocean Water)
Concentration Game (Ocean Water)
Wordsearch (Ocean Water)
Flashcards (Chapter 15)
Hangman Game (Chapter 15)


Moon Phase Game
 

(Chapter 17)

Gases in Earth's Atmosphere
Take a Ride in a Balloon
What a Difference the Pressure Makes
Air Pressure Wordsearch Game
Atmospheric Layers Chart
The Aurora Borealis
National Geographic Aurora Borealis

(Chapter 19)

Trip Information
The American Museum of Natural History
An Interview With a Dinosaur

Air Masses and Fronts - Diagrams
Weather Informtion for Chapter 19
Current Weather Map (Intellicast)
Current Weather Map (Unisys)
How the Weather Works (USA Today)
Weather Basics (USA Today)
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Weather Images
A Weather Lesson
 

Chapter 23

Here Comes the Sun
The sun - birth, death, etc.
Does the sun rotate?
Death of the sun
The Seasons
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
This site is called Here Comes the Sun.  It has lots of info about seasons
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sun/sun1.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml
How Do the Phases Get Their Names?
Does the sun rotate?
The sun - birth, death, etc.

http://www.fearofphysics.com/SunMoon/sunmoon.html

Chapter 24
Pluto (Nasa)
The Sun,   the Planets,   Asteroids, etc.
Space Exploration - link 1, link 2
Temperature Scales: Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin 
Solar System Report

Solar System Review
NASA Kids http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
  
NASA Space Place
NASA information about Planets, etc. http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/cool_subjects.shtml
Welcome to the Planets
Exploring the Planets http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/
    Tools of Exploration
The Nine Planets
Windows to the Universe

Star Child
Heavens Above (Satellites)

Astronomy picture of the day
Solar System Simulator
The Meteorite Simulation Game
or here
Space Games
Solar System Shuffle
Planet Tic Tac Toe
Arrange the Planets in Order game
Moon Phase Game
Make Your Own Alien Game
Games from Windows on the Universe

Here Comes the Sun

Your Weight on Other Worlds
Ask the Space Scientist
Today's eclipse (Mar. 29, 2006)

http://www.solarviews.com//eng/homepage.htm
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/avhome.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/comets.html&edu=high

(comets)
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/asteroids.html

(asteroids)
https://www.angelfire.com/nj/PflommScience/chap24notes2.htm

http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/tools/tools_probes.html
http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/tools/tools_orbit.html
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

eclipse
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/links.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/future.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/card.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/what.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/what.html
How to view an eclipse
World map of future eclipses
Eclipse links

Health and Family Life

It's My Life (smoking)

Dont be a Dip
http://dontdip.tamu.edu/

What Kids Say About Drinking Alcohol (Or en Espanol)
Kids and Alcohol
Tips for Teens, The Truth About Alcohol
More Information About Alcohol
What can you do?
Questions and Answers About Alcohol Problems
Wordsearch - parts of the body affected by alcohol
Wordsearch - things to do instead of drinking alcohol
(in Spanish) Juego de Palabras en Espanol
Alcohol Facts

The AIDS Handbook
What is AIDS?
AIDS: The War Within

Lesson 5 Lion
Mind Over Matter - Your Brain's Response to Inhalants
Mind Over Matter - Your Brain's Response to Steroids

Mind Over Matter (Facts about Marijuana)
Sara's Quest
Marijuana: Facts For Teens (More facts about marijuana)
(same thing in Spanish)
Marijuana Questions

Puberty(copy)
Puberty
Pubertad (en espanol)

Puberty Demonstration

Fat Calories.Com (The Fast Food NutritionFact Explorer)

Black History Month

African American Astronauts
African American Scientists
African American Inventors (Enchanted Learning)

Fun Stuff
Who Wants to be a Millionaire - The Science Game

Misc.
The Faces Of Science

Test prep for math:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mhm/testprep/gr6/index.html
Math Mysteries