Extra Credit

An informational science website I found was "Extreme Science" at http://www.extremescience.com/. It was created by Elizabeth Keller, the only sponsor for the site. Extreme Science is about the greatest and most extreme science, but it also focuses on all types of sciences. A positive aspect is that it has various types of information available throughout many different fields, such as Earth Science, technology, animal kingdom, space science and more. Also, the website provides videos relating to the topics and is attractive. I don't think there is any negative aspect to this site! This website offers information on world records in natural science, resources for help on science projects, and more! I would recommend this site because of its sufficient information on many topics.

SOURCE: http://students.usm.maine.edu/rachel.frost/extremesci.gif (picture)

Big Rat Little Rat

Recently in Foja Mountains Rainforest, located in Indonesia, two new species of the Rattus norvegicus were found. Considering that discovering new species is quite rare in this century, this is good news. The "giant rat" is about 5 times the size of an average city rat, whereas the tiny possum was described as "one of the world's smallest marsupials." (a type of mammal) This just goes to show that if we discontinue to destroy forests, we can discover hundreds of new species which will help us improve our study and progress quicker. I absolutely agree with Bruce, an expedition leader, when he says, "It's comforting to know that there is a place on Earth so isolated that it remains the absolute realm of wild nature."



SOURCES:
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/1193422.jpg (Pictures)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/17/giant.rat.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch (Article)

Want to save rainforests?

The following link donates money to help save the rainforests! All you have to do is send an ecard (which is free) and it gives money! http://www.care2.com/send/categories

Density Rainbow!!!

Do you know what colors make up the rainbow?
Well, today (Tuesday 12.18.07) in science class, it was a little different. Since we are learning about density, we had a lab today that involved mixing and experimenting with different colored chemicals - green, yellow, red, blue and brown, weighing different amounts. We weren't told what they were, but as a group, we had to come up with a way to figure out the order in which the chemicals went in from least dense to most dense. And, the chemicals had to be in layers on top of each other just like a rainbow!! First we estimated the weight of each of the liquids to see if they were heavy or light. We then formed a hypothesis and finally tested our hypothesis. We were correct! The order was- green, yellow, red, blue, brown. Yellow was oil, green was alcohol, red was colored water, blue was laundry detergent, and brown was honey!
(The picture is similar to the experiment I did, only the colors were different and it was done in a plastic cup.)

Source:
http://z.about.com/d/chemistry/1/0/E/V/rainbow.jpg (Picture)

Froggy Game :)

I found a cute froggy game... (it doesn't have to do with dissection!)

Go to http://www.froggyville.com/frogger.htm

Hope you like it!

(Use your arrow keys to move, and once you pass the cars on the road you have to move your frog onto lilypads and then onto logs and finally into one of the spaces at the end)

I am a Cuban Tree Frog!!!

Believed to have been brought to America as stow-aways on banana boats, Cuban Tree Frogs are the largest tree frogs in North America. They are notorious for cannibalism...if there are other species of frogs in the tank, or even specimens of the same species, they have been known to feast on their neighbors!

What kind of Frog are you?

Word Study Project Trimester1

This is our groups Word Study Project for Trimester 1.
No copying!!!!