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Science timeline, email and internet use Science, non-science, and pseudoscience Measurement in Science, Scientific notation Scientific information: dietary supplements and alternative health methods
Interindividual variation, random sampling of populations Inferential statistics: testing for differences between groups (t-tests) Inferential statistics: testing for relationships between variables Scientific method: student experiment projects
Classification: minerals, periodic table, taxonomy Position, velocity, and acceleration Introduction to forces Energy conservation: specific heat of water and metals
Energy transformation and conservation: electricity and heat Properties of water Aquatic ecosystem sampling Water quality and use issues.
Why are there seasons? Gas laws Gas laws and weather systems Earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics

Miscellaneous useful Links

 

Science timeline, email and internet use

Work Sheet: Time Line
Introduction to using webmail at NKU

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Science, non-science, and pseudoscience

Work Sheet: Intro to Science
Work Sheet: Pseudoscience vs Protoscience
Work Sheet: Evaluation of a Claim
Work Sheet: Evidence and Inference

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Measurement in Science, Scientific notation

Work Sheet: Density
Work Sheet: Measurement Exercise
Work Sheet: Introduction to Scientific Information
Measuring techniques for reading scales at DB H. S.

Significant Figures at DB H. S.
Significant Figures, Scientific Notation, Exponents at RLSC Online

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Scientific information: dietary supplements and alternative health methods

Investigation of Dietary Supplement

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Inter individual variation, random sampling of populations

Work Sheet: Descriptive Stats
Mean and Variation of populations at UofW
Websites on sampling bias:
     Sampling Bias
     Sampling Bias Background
     Myth and Reality in Reporting Sampling Error

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Inferential statistics: testing for differences between groups (t-tests)

Work Sheet: Sampling Error Exercise
Comparing populations - the Student t Test at UofW

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Inferential statistics: testing for relationships between variables

Correlation and Regression Computer Exercise

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Pendulum periodicity

Work Sheet: Simple Pendulum

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Tree ring chronologies

Work Sheet: Climate and Tree Growth

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Scientific Method: student experiment projects

Work Sheet: Group Project - Scientific Method
Reaction time at BioByts

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Classification: minerals, periodic table, taxonomy

Work Sheet: Classification in Geology
Mohs' Hardness Scale What is Important about Hardness?

The Rock Cycle
The Stupid Page of Rocks

Kentucky Geology

An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements at ChemicalElements.com

Modeling the Periodic Table An Interactive Simulation - NASA's Genesis Mission
A one page periodic table guide

The Biology 120 Plant and Animal Phylogeny Exercise

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Position, velocity, and acceleration

Work Sheet: Motion Map
Work Sheet: Motion Summary

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Introduction to forces

Introduction to Newton's 2nd law of motion
Work Sheet: Newton's 2nd Law
The most important equation in physics

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Energy conservation: specific heat of water and metals. Heats of fusion and vaporization of water. Energy conservation and light.

Work Sheet: Energy Questions
Work Sheet: Calorimetry
Work Sheet: Heat Fusion

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Energy transformation and conservation: electricity and heat

WorkSheet: Electrical Equivalence of Heat

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Properties of water

About Water and Ice
Water Science for Schools

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Aquatic ecosystem sampling

Work Sheet: Description of Lake Inferior

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Water quality and use issues

Kentucky Water Quality

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Why are there seasons?

Here Comes the Sun
Seasons at Gallaudet

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Gas laws

Work Sheet: Gas Laws
Thermodynamics Virtual laboratory at U of O

ASPIRE &endash; Gas Particle Motion at U of U

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Gas laws and weather systems

Work Sheet: Intro to Meteorology
Meteorology Guide

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Earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics

The rock cycle
Plate Tectonics
Earth's crustal rocks
Cincinnati Fossils - SCP Virtual Trip
Understanding earthquakes
This Dynamic Earth- Contents (USGS)
Understanding Earthquakes Elastic Rebound Animation
2000 Significant Earthquakes of the World

Update on current Volcanic Activity

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Miscellaneous useful links

unit conversions at WebCom.com
Virtual Physics Labs at U of Oregon
ASPIRE Java Labs for Physics
The PhysicsZone Algebra based physics tutorials and simulations
Physics 2000 Table of Contents at U of Colorado
U S Geological Survey Eastern Region

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