"When a body is immersed in water — the telephone rings."   -- Archimedes' Other Law.

Curriculum by Marking Period (Science / ISL)

Waves, Sound, & Light (Third Marking Period)

• Ripple Tank - Interactive Wave Machine
• String Waves - create waves on the string
• String Thing - design string instrument
• Science of Music
• Science, Optics, & You = Interactive Labs, Optical Illusions
• Interactive Sound Ruler
• Infrared Photo Album
• Text Book
• Optics Bench - experiment with lenses and mirrors

  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
• PBS Kids - Cyberchase

  Genetics & Heredity (Fourth Marking Period)

• Create a DNA Fingerprint  Use the online lab to make a DNA fingerprint and catch the culprit
• Mutations  Investigate the effects of mutations in the DNA code
• Tree of Life - Interactive Cladogram
• Classifying Living Things
• Is the Dominant Trait Most Prevalent? - Human Genetics Collaborative Project
• Genetics Web Lab Directory - Interactive Genetics Activity
• Online Onion Root Tip - ID stages of mitosis
• Virtual Fruit Fly Lab
• Text Book
• Biology Corner
• Cells Alive - Interactive Cell Diagrams, and more
• Life inside a Cell - amazing video!

  Physics:  Motion and Force (First marking Period)

• Animated Engines Internal and external combustion engines NEW!
• Gravity Launch - Get the Rocket in the right orbit
• Newton's Cannon - Adjust the speed and angle to hit the target
• Newton's Cradle - Nice demonstration of the conservation of momentum
• Newton's Mountain With enough velocity you can reach orbit
• Monkey and the Hunter
• Sports Physics - See how science applies to surfing, skateboarding, baseball, more
• Maze Game
• Lady Bug Motion 2D
• Energy Skate Park
• Design a Roller Coaster
• Crash Scene Investigation - Collect evidence and figure out what happened
• Amusement Park Physics - See how science applies to roller coasters and rides
• Text Book
• Physics Java Applets - Interactive Demos (advanced)
• Power Play - Interactive Energy Transformations
• Simple Machines - Find all the simple machines
• The Odd Machine - Try to get a perfect score
• Build a Rube Goldberg Machine - Can you make it work?

Earth's Water - Oceans, Fresh Water, Salt Marsh (Second Marking Period)

• Mysteries of Apo Island - Aquatic mysteries in the Philippines
• Dive to the Abyss - Collect animal samples from the abyss
• Marine Ecosystems - Connect the Dots - Dive into Worlds Within the Sea
• Build a Fish - Create a fish that will survive in its habitat
• Secrets at Sea - Interactive Web Mysteries
• Monterey Bay Web Cams - Live Video
• Gulf Stream Voyage - Real Time Data Project
• Text Book
• Down the Drain - Collaborative Project
• Salt Marsh Project
• Take a Dip - Water Quality Collaborative Project
• The Stowaway Adventure - Real Time Data Project
• Virtual Fish Tank
• Fish Field Guide
• Watershed
• Upwelling
• Surface Currents
• Echo Sounding - How Sonar is Used to Map the Ocean Floor
• Tides