Science Resources
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Siege Weapons
Mrs. Kelly's Catapult Assignment is available on her SchoolNotes page :
http://schoolnotes.com/01775/kkelly.html
| Siege Engines.com -- Welcome -- sections on engineering, pictures of actual siege engines of various types, and more -- http://www.siege-engine.com/ |
Image from the Dangerous Sport Club: http://www.billfryer.com/dsc/index.html |
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| The Grey Company Trebuchet Page -- See great models (tabletop size) of different siege engines -- http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/Greycos/trebfil7.html | ||
| NOVA Online -- Secrets of Lost Empires -- Medieval Siege -- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/ | ||
| Rude Mechanical's Siege Engine Projects -- Instructions for building three different model siege engines: An onager, a ballista, and a trebuchet-- http://www.mechanicals.co.uk/mechanicals/projects/siege.htm | ||
| Howstuffworks "How Force, Power, Torque, and Energy Work" http://science.howstuffworks.com/fpte.htm | ||
Periodic Table and the Elements
*Image from the Comic Book Table of the Elements
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Chemistry: WebElements Periodic Table -- http://www.webelements.com/ |
| A Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory -- http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm |
| Chemical Elements.com -- An interactive Periodic Table of the Elements -- http://www.chemicalelements.com/ |
| JUST FOR FUN Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements -- Click on an element to see comic book pages associated with that element. -- http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/ |
| Animal Information | Infectious Disease | Plants |
| Microbes | Creating Surveys | |
| PLANTS National Database -- from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service -- Search by common or scientific name -- http://plants.usda.gov/ |  |
| Natural Perspective : Plant Kingdom -- contains pointers to mosses and allies (liverwort and hornworts), ferns, conifers, flowering dicot and monocot plants -- http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/index.html | |
| Angiosperm, Gymnosperm and Lower Plants -- outline of key information about lower plants -- http://project.bio.iastate.edu/Articulation/ISU/Freshman/Biol_201/Outlines/chp27.html | |
| Monocots vs. Dicots -- The two classes of flowering plants -- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss8/monocotdicot.html | |
| 16 Plants -- Overview of monocot and dicot angiosperms -- http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~simmons/1116/16plants.htm | |
| Kingdom Plantae -- Contains information about the different divisions of the plant kingdom -- http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Plantae/ |
| What is a Microbe? -- From the American Society for Microbiology -- http://www.microbe.org/microbes/what_is.asp |
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| Astrobiology -- micro*scope -- Information on microbes from the Astrobiology Institute Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole -- http://microscope.mbl.edu/reflections/baypaul/microscope/general/page_01.htm | ||
| Types of Microbes -- Microbeworld -- From the American Soiciety for Microbiology -- http://www.microbeworld.org/htm/aboutmicro/microbes/types_start.htm | ||
| The Microbial World: The Fungal Web -- Profiles dealing with different aspects of fungi -- http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/microbes/fungalwe.htm | ||
| Natural Perspective : Fungus Kingdom -- http://www.perspective.com/nature/fungi/index.html | ||
| Kingdom Fungi -- Diversity of the Kingdom Fungi: An interactive Phylogenetic Tree -- http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Fungi/ | ||
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Kingdom Protista -- Diversity of the Kingdom Protista: An interactive Phylogenetic Tree -- http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Protista/ |
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| Lichen Education: Biology and Symbiosis -- "The Fungus meets an Alga" -- http://mgd.nacse.org/hyperSQL/lichenland/html/biology/meeting.html | ||
| Kid's Health from the Nemours Foundation -- Search on your disease by typing it into the search box on the upper left hand side of the page. http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/ |  |
| CDC - Diseases & Conditions Index A-Z -- Find your disease by clicking on the first letter of the disease name -- http://www.cdc.gov/az.do/id/0900f3ec8000e035#H | |
| Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia -- Find your disease by clicking on the first letter of the disease name -- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html | |
| Epidemic - The world of infectious disease -- from the American Museum of Natural History -- lots of great information about infectious disease, prevention and some games to check your knowledge -- http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/prologue/prologue.html |
| Tornados: from Scholastic Education |
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