"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department." -- Werner von Braun

Curriculum by Marking Period (Science / ISL)

  Inside the Earth - Plate Tectonics, Rocks & Minerals (Third Marking Period)

• Identify the Rock Game
• CMS Sand Collection
• Virtual Rock Laboratory - Test the rocks
• Build a Volcano - Make our own
• Interactive Volcanoes
• The Virtual Volcano Explorer
• Volcano World
• Volcano Map
• How Volcanoes Work
• Hot Spot Volcanoes
• Text Book
• Set off an Earthquake (Virtual)
• Earth Science Animations
• Musical Plates - Real Time Earthquake Data Project
• Recent Earthquakes - Last 7 days
• Plate Boundary Map
• Tsunami Formation
• How a Seismograph Works

   Fun Links

• What's Your Ecological Footprint?  Take the quiz
• Launchpad Online  Fun game from Science Museum
• Wonderville  Fun game from Science Museum
• Professor XYZ's Lab science games
• Science of Music
• PBS Kids - Cyberchase

  Electricity & Magnetism (Fourth Marking Period)

• Technology at Home  Find out when electrical appliances appeared in our homes
• Text Book
• Hidden Dangers of Electricity - Spot the dangers
• The Ohm Zone - Build electric circuits

  Weather (First Marking Period)

• All About Hurricanes - Student Collaborative Project NEW!
• National Hurricane Center
• Animated Guide:  Hurricanes
• American Red Cross - search site for hurricane prep information
• NJ Office of Emergency Management
• Hurricane Katrina - NOLA site
• Hurricanes - FEMA for kids site
• Greenhouse Effect Simulation - Click on Run Now!
• Predict the Weather - Can you accurately predict the weather 3 days into the future?
• Forces of Nature - Create a tornado, hurricane
• Air Pollution:  What's the Solution - Using real time data to study air pollution
• Smog City - Can you lower the air quality index to safe levels?
• Smog City 2 - Can you lower the air quality index to safe levels?
• Text Book
• Weather Scope - An Investigative study of weather
• Wonderful World of Weather - Study the weather using real time data
• Interactive Weather - Can you make it snow?  Rain?

  Nature of Science & Human Anatomy (Second Marking Period)

• The Franklin Institute
• The White Shirt Experiment
• Visual Cognition Lab - video experiments on attention and memory
• Optical Illusions - A lot to explore
• Calorie Chart - Find nutrition facts for thousands of foods
• Calories Burned Estimator - Calories burned for various activities
• Virtual Hip Surgery - Hip replacement surgery is a snap
• Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery - Patient needs a new knee
• Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection - Extract the bones and build the skeleton
• Operation:  Heart Transplant - Transplant a heart in 19 easy steps
• Text Book
• Human Anatomy - Simulations & Visualizations
• ZAP! - Test your reaction time
• The Amazing Human Body - Explore human body systems
• Net Frog - Virtual Frog Dissection