I’ve spent some time today adding links into del.icio.us that I think are useful for early high school science, although a lot of them are good for much wider age range.
The sites listed below provide an excellent introduction to several basic science concepts. You can visit the links in sequence or use the annotations to select those that contain information most relevant to your interests.
In the spring of 2006 we again asked the Princeton University community to submit images—and, for the first time, videos and sounds—produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science.
We have, over the years, been sent many rocks and photographs of rocks that finders suspect to be meteorites. The tongue-in-cheak term for a rock that is not a meteorite is a meteorwrong.
Basic biology information. It’s not just biology for kids, it’s for everyone. We have information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics.
Physical geography and earth science basics. It’s not just for geography for kids, it’s for everyone. This site has an introduction to the earth sciences that includes topics on the Earth’s structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
Basic physics information. It’s not just physics for kids, it’s for everyone. We have information on motion, heat and thermodynamics, electricity & magnetism, light, and modern physics.
Video made by a home educated teenager in Victoria. See how well she has matched the pictures to the sound track, and the story that they tell. An excellent film.
If you are interested in Physics, then these Public Lectures are very
good.
I’m not sure why, but they always seem to be the best lectures we go to during the year. I think it may be because they go for longer than the 1 hour that most public lectures run for. The are scheduled to be from 8pm to 10pm but usually go for about 1.5 hours. So they can cover more detail on the selected topic.
This is a very interesting book which takes a very different look at Economics.
“Freakonomics is a book that will change the way you look at the world. It is not like an ordinary non-fiction book, it’s full of quirky facts and seemingly illogical truths. For example; which is more dangerous, a house with a pool or a house with a gun? In Freakonomics you’ll for everything from what schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common to why drug dealers still live with their mums.”
The authors have a website http://www.freakonomics.com/ which has some updated information, reviews and a link to a student guide. The student guide provides an interesting way to have a second look at the book. There is also a teachers guide available if you apply for a userid/password from the Harper Academic website.
We have been working our way through an excellent introduction to chemistry - Mastering Chemistry by Peter Riley. It is very clearly presented and has questions in each section to check that you have understood the topic being covered.
We got ours from the Mornington Peninsula Library. It is also available from Amazon:
Mastering Chemistry by Peter Riley. (the cover is from an earlier edition).
The Australian Synchrotron site includes a lot of information about what synchrotrons are and what they are used for. It also includes resources for Teachers section that has VCE physics material.
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