ONLINE INTERACTIVE GAMES FOR STUDENTS

An excellent resources for physics instruction
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/circuit-construction-kit-dc

Full Lunar Eclipse tonight!


Peaks at 2:46 tonight.

How the Zebra got its stripes.

Theories about Zebra evolution in the link below.



http://blog.education.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/14/why-zebras-got-their-stripes/

Wolves are ecosystem engineers

Mississippi Watershed pollution

What does the Mississippi watershed have to do with us? Do we live in a watershed? If so how are we polluting or effecting it?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140411-water-quality-nutrients-pesticides-dead-zones-science/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20140412news-waterdec&utm_campaign=Content&sf2563852=1

Who said windmills had to be on the ground?

High altitude wind turbines! Harvesting wind energy from kites!



Check out the link below
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-high-altitude-turbines-potential-large-amounts.html

Enzyme micro pumps and how they work... Future medical applications?

Check out the link below. What enzymes are being tested by researchers? What disease could this possibly be used to treat? Why do you think gold was chosen for the surface?
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-mechanobiology-enzyme-micropump-autonomously-insulin.html

First successful organ regeneration in an animal!

What did they use to regenerate the thymus? Why wouldn't this work on humans? Why wouldn't this work on your average mouse?

Check out the link below
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/09/first-succesful-organ-regeneration-in-a-living-animal/#.U0WecuZdWDo

A mircoscopic photo of a Butterfly's egg.

How was this picture taken? What are those blue things on the leaf?

The Opposition of Mars

Its a beautiful night for star gazing!
Check out this video see if you can find Mars tonight!

EYES ON HEALTH

What diseases can we identify by looking closely at the eye?

Keeping your Blood Pressure in check!

Where do you fit on this chart!

Measuring Blood pressure accurately

So many little things can influence this measurement!


http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/ama-wire/ama-wire.page?UID=e38cf47a-fc5f-473b-9234-c9e714c1c8f0&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckController=Blog&plckElementId=blogDest&plckPostId=Blog%3Ae38cf47a-fc5f-473b-9234-c9e714c1c8f0Post%3A1fef671f-c8a4-4565-8a0a-533d228a0188&plckScript=blogScript&utm_campaign=Wildfire+Message+-+New+pilot+program+explores+role+of+checklists...&utm_content=po_835670&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

PUNNETT SQUARE GAMES

Some Online Review Games for Punnett squares!

I reccomend the Chicken and Lemmings game and the Basketball Review games.

Great for Online test reviews!

http://comelearnmore.com/websites-by-topic/genetics-games/

The Largest Yellow Star EVER Measured

Why would it have a companion star? Would this star be surrounded by planets? If so would the companion star effect the orbits of those planets?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25207#.U0LHURC-2So

Telomeres of happy children!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25370-harsh-world-makes-kids-chromosomes-look-middleaged.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL-twitter#.U0LDzhC-2So

Why are shortened telomeres a problem when it comes to preventing disease?

5 Metals that Don't Act Like Metals

1)Beillyum-Be


2) Sodium-Na


3) Iridium-Ir

4) Radium-Ra


5)Mercury-Hg


Read more about these cool metals at the link below

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/5-metals-that-do-not-act-metals.htm#mkcpgn=twdsc1

LAB ACTIVITIES FOR BIOLOGY CLASSES

This link has some fantastic lab activities for Biology.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/

Manipulatives for Mitosis and Meiosis

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449698/



More than Messy with time

Entropy and Ergodicity? How do they contribute to  our understanding of time?


https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/maybe-time%E2%80%99s-arrow-needs-ergodicity-well-entropy

An Ocean Under the Surface

Could life in the universe be much closer than we think???

Enter Enceladus the ice moon of Saturn with a new found secret.

What organisms if any could possibly be found there?


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/03/hidden-ocean-discovered-on-saturns-moon-enceladus/#.Uz2h4K1dWDo

Photosyntheic Capital of the World

The growing season in the corn belt of North America has more photosynthetic activity than the Amazon Rainforest?????

What theories do you have as to why this is the case? How would you test your theories?

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/grawk-fluorescence-photosynthesis/