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These resources are always changing. Please let me know if a link no longer works and I'll provide an update. Thanks, Ms. B
These resources are always changing. Please let me know if a link no longer works and I'll provide an update. Thanks, Ms. B
- ACADEMIC RESOURCES
- SLHS Bell schedule - https://www.slusd.us/slhs/slhs/bell-schedule/
- Calculate your GPA - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1pLkuwWgrPV3xuakATcrbHAsGx0D7d0vZKEwTZ5NE4/edit?usp=sharing
- Free AP Classes for Remote Learning - apstudents.collegeboard.org/coronavirus-updates#free-ap-classes
- Virtual College and Career Board - padlet.com/lrb9/h2usw3fwz3rzocvn
- WEB BUILDING TOOLS
- Weebly - https://www.weebly.com/editor/main.php - web tool for building your own custom website.
- RESEARCH SUPPORT
- Types of Cognitive Bias - www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/50-cognitive-biases-to-be-aware-of-so-you-can-be-the-very-best-version-of-you/ou/ Title Max provides a free infographic describing 50 types of cognitive bias and how they screw up our decision making abilities.
- OWL Purdue - owl.purdue.edu - Purdue University's writing resources Lab. Click the link for the MLA formatting and style guide page to get help on writing formal documents and creating a proper Work Cited page for research documents.
- Easy Bib - www.easybib.com Easy tool for creating citations and checking your work for typos and plagiarism.
- Bias, Relevancy & Validity Checklists - Questions you should consider when conducting research to make sure you are using good quality information. docs.google.com/document/d/1OXeSJ857lB1WGi-t4Ww5wBU258EEnTz72G0q-ow9e_c/edit?usp=sharing
- NEWS & SCIENCE JOURNALS FOR YOUTH
- Newsella - https://newsela.com - News that is considered relatively neutral and reliable according to 3rd party analysis.
- Fronteirs -https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00099 - Scientific News and Journals reviewed by young people.
- NATURE OF SCIENCE
- How Science Works - https://undsci.berkeley.edu - a website by UC Berkeley designed to help people understand more about how science works. The website includes an interactive flowchart here https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/scienceflowchart
- CHEMISTRY OF LIFE
- Stated Clearly Video Series - these are a few episodes in a wonderful series called Stated Clearly that talk about many life science concepts.
- What Are Atoms? - https://youtu.be/LhveTGblGHY
- What Are Atoms Made Of? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWfzpUIoNM
- Stated Clearly Video Series - these are a few episodes in a wonderful series called Stated Clearly that talk about many life science concepts.
- ECOLOGY OF EARTH
- iNaturalist - https://www.inaturalist.org - Wildlife identification tool
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology www.birds.cornell.edu/home/ Education focused conservation group that researches and protects bird.
- PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CELLULAR RESPIRATION
- TEDEd - The Simple Story of Photosynthesis and Food by Amanda Ooten
- BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
- Streams, Weathering and Erosion - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqJo5ze3Bk Awesome demonstration of a very elaborate stream table and another one that shows erosion along a cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qCPszm9sk
- An Atlas of North American Rivers - https://somethingaboutmaps.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/weblayout-1.pdf A beautiful collection of river maps drawn in the style of transit maps. Here is an article about them by the author https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/back-to-the-rivers/
- HISTORY OF EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE
- PBS Deep Time - www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/deeptime/index.html History Of Earth and Evolution
- How Carbon Dating Works - www.scientificamerican.com/video/how-does-radiocarbon-dating-work-i2012-11-30/ video by Scientific American on how we use unstable carbon atoms and other isotopes to determine the age of ancient fossils and rocks.
- How Carbon Dating Works - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcuz1JiMk9k - BrainStuff, How stuff works
- Triceratops bone carbon-dated to 30,000 years old?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNY8xC3raDY Debunking claim by Creationists that a triceratops bone is older than it is by "Stated Clearly".
- How Radioactive Dating Works - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_vKvJO7Kqw Very detailed explanation of radioactive dating with math problems by Seth Horowitz.
- EVOLUTION
- UC Berkeley Evolution 101 - https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01
- Learn Genetics - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ - Genetic Science Learning Center website that has multiple videos, interactives and resources for you to learn about genetics, cell biology, science tools, human health, neuroscience and ecology.
- PBS Evolution Library - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/index.html
- GENETICS
- Learn Genetics - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ - Genetic Science Learning Center website that has multiple videos, interactives and resources for you to learn about genetics, cell biology, science tools, human health, neuroscience and ecology.
- DNA and PROTEINS
- STRUCTURE, FUNCTION and GROWTH (from cell to organism)
- Learn Genetics - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ - Genetic Science Learning Center website that has multiple videos, interactives and resources for you to learn about genetics, cell biology, science tools, human health, neuroscience and ecology.
- Scale of the Universe - htwins.net/scale2 - Web interactive that shows the relative size and scale of the objects in the universe from smallest units of matter to the predicted size of the known versus unknown universe.
- The Inner Life of a Cell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5y -
- ECOSYSTEM STABILITY AND RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- SCIENCE TOOLS
- Kahn Academy Microscopy - www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-cells/hs-introduction-to-cells/v/scale-of-cells
- FUN SCIENCE LINKS
- Information is Beautiful - informationisbeautiful.net/ - A website that collects effective infographic that are both informative and humorous.
- Document with Links to Science Websites and Resources - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W7lo5bnYX9x6UBcFV_91KqlGWLHvkM-KNPDPT9dsc8s/edit?usp=sharing - Radio Shows, Interactives and more