Your Age and Weight on Other Worlds!

1. Find out how much you weigh on other planets!

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/


2. Find out how old you are on other planets!

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html

Diabetes in a Virtual World

Play this game and weigh in!  

http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/insulin/

Check out this interview with a real-life archaeologist!

I read this and though it was neat with relation to our unit on Archaeology. Check it out yourself and then weigh in with your thoughts!

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/PeoplePlaces/Fredrik-hiebert-interview

Accelerated Decomposition of Plastic Bag!

While most plastic bags take thousands of years to decompose, this teen made it happen in just three months! This is amazing!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/teen-decomposes/

Algae Farm Aims to turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/business/energy-environment/29biofuel.html?em

Interesting article today in the New York Times. Read it and tell me what you think! Hope you guys are having a great summer. I am :)

Your Age on Other Worlds

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html

Kind of like the post "Your Weight on Other Worlds". I'm 125 years old on Mercury. :) Awesome.

Cyberbee: "Who Did It"?

A fun forensic investigation. Check it out!

http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/crime.html

Brain Cells Take a Break!

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20090527/Feature1.asp

At a time when most (all) of us are ready for a break, I thought you might find this interesting. Your brain cells do get a break! In addition to summer break, that is. :)

The Earth Has a Long, Unique History

Check out the following links. There's a wealth of great information regarding Earth's past and geologic time.

Understanding Geologic Time
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtpage1.html

Paleontology: The Big Dig
http://www.amnh.org/ology/?channel=paleontology&c

Web Geological Timeline
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

Life: A Journey Through Time
http://www.lifethroughtime.com/

Earth Floor: Geologic Time
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/geotime.html

Geo-mysteries: Geologic Timeline
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/timeline.html

Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

Per our classroom discussion today, I was checking out this interactive periodic table once again. It's worth checking out, if for no other reasons than, a) you will be exposed to all knowledge yet to come, 6th graders; and b) you will obtain a wealth of new "nickel knowledge", or tidbits to share when you feel like it. I learned tonight that plutonium was the fissile material (meaning the material they used to set it off) during the first testing of an atom bomb. Who knew? Anyway, check it out and weigh in. Lots of cool stuff.

http://www.ptable.com/