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== =**Science Netlinks: Student Interactives**=

The links to interactive science activities on this page are from [|Science NetLinks: Tool Index]. Explore the interactive tools at Science NetLinks often. New Tools are made and posted at the site frequently.

Contents (click): Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8  =Grade 6= Beginning of the year - Plants/Ecology Becoming a Scientist - teacher notes Description: This resource contains 11 video clips of prominent biomedical researchers responding to the question: What qualities do you need to succeed in biomedical research? All of the researchers are Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators.

Catastrophic Events [| USA Today’s Weather Basics] - [|teacher notes] Description: This page consists of links to USATODAY.com graphics and photo scrapbooks with captions explaining the photos. These resources will help your students understand weather, climate, and some other earth science topics.

Catastrophic Events Earthquakes - teacher notes Description: This site utilizes animations and step-by-step text explanations of key concepts relating to earthquakes.

Plants/Ecology Creature Feature Archive - teacher notes Description: Creature Feature Archive features information about a wide range of animals for grades K-8. It provides factual information about animals through photographs, video clips, audio clips, and maps.

Plants/Ecology Bug Bios - teacher notes Description: Macrophotography, articles, and links provide a well-rounded look into dragonflies and damselflies, walking sticks, mantids, ants, bees and wasps, flies, lacewings, antlions, and other insects.

Plants/Ecology Biomes of the World - teacher notes Description: Biomes of the World provides information on rainforest, tundra, taiga, desert, temperate, and grassland biomes. For each of these, information is provided about the climate, plants, and animals found there.  =Grade 7= Energy, Machines and Motion Power Play - teacher notes Description: This site allows students to learn about harnessing different energy sources as they try to build a variety of working machines given a mixed set of parts in the fastest time possible.

Energy, Machine and Motion Simple Machine - teacher notes This is an interactive site about simple and compound machines. The site provides a glossary of simple machines and then challenges students to identify simple machines in everyday objects.

Macro to Micro Creature Feature Archive - teacher notes Creature Feature Archive features information about a wide range of animals for grades K-8. It provides factual information about animals through photographs, video clips, audio clips, and maps.

Macro to Micro The Last Straw Project - teacher notes This is an interactive simulation model that allows users to experiment with how plants deal with drought. The model allows students to compare the growth of plants in two different chambers and to select different variables for each chamber.

Macro to Micro Oolgy - teacher notes Ology, which means "the study of," offers students the opportunity to learn more about a wide variety of science disciplines. Topics include genetics, biodiversity, paleontology, marine biology, Einstein, and astronomy. Ology features information—experiments, activity, and project ideas—and the opportunity to meet other "ologists" (both children and adult).  =Grade 8= Unit: Properties of Matter Bayer Periodic Table - teacher notes Molecule Man introduces students to the Cyber-rific Periodic Table of the Elements, which features a very colorful and intuitive interface. As students interact with the table, they see brief descriptions of the elements. Rolling over an element displays information about its atomic number, weight, room temperature, and common uses. Clicking on the element provides information about the element's history and materials in which it is commonly found.

Unit: Earth and Space A Day on Mercury - teacher notes Description: Users experience a typical Mercurian day, which is actually 176 Earth days. In the top part of the animation, you can see the sun traveling across the landscape as viewed from Mercury. You can watch the stats boxes in the lower left of the screen to follow the progress of the animation. Your location on Mercury is shown at the lower right in a static "front view" snapshot that changes over the course of the day. An animation of the planet's orbital position appears at the lower right. You can also track the change in temperature throughout the day by looking at the thermometer in the lower middle of the screen.

Unit: Earth and Space Make a Mission - teacher notes Description: Users build a spacecraft in order to explore the planet Mercury—just as the NASA team did when they planned and built the real MESSENGER spacecraft!

Unit: Earth and Space Planet Size Comparison - teacher notes Description: In this animation, users can find out how Mercury "sizes up" to Earth or any other planet. The first two planets that show up on the screen when you open this animation are Earth and Mercury. At the top of the screen, students can choose what planets they want to compare. At the bottom of the screen, students can see the dimensions for each planet as well as how they compare in size.

Unit: Human Biology All Systems Are Go! - teacher notes Description: In this activity, Arnold is missing organs from four major body systems. It’s your job to put them back. Be careful; if you drag in an organ that doesn’t belong, all the organs pop out and you have to start all over again!

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