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| I hope all of you have a fun, safe summer! Come see us next year! Ms.Williams and I will be back in Community E. You have been a great group of students. If you haven't used the Inspiration 7 software yet, download it for 30 days at www.Inspiration.com |
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| If you would like to try the other free Cmapping software for as long as you wish (they will update it), no charge, click here (you will need the password). |
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| Click on the button at left to go to a good site on mineral properties. For a piece of candy, tell me the first mineral named within the section discussing Streak. The first few students to come to me and identify the mineral will get the candy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Try out the games at this site (Click here) focusing on minerals. Also has some easy to follow information about rocks and minerals. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guess which of my students really got into rocks and minerals. Notice the layer of sediments on her enviro-suit. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here for an interactive video gallery featuring rocks and minerals. Big thanks to S. A. who guided me to this website. Thanks for your help S. The rest of you can still help search and let me know of any interactive websites about geology I can include here. An online game would be great. |
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| Big thanks to K.F. who located the websites below for indentifiying your rocks. Try them out! Rock I.D. Site 1 Rock I.D. Site 2 Rock I.D. Site 3 |
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| This site (Click here) has good pictures of minerals as well as information on how to begin rock collecting. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interactive periodic table from the Los Alamos National Laboratory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Good site for reviewing the chemistry we are covering. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For practice with more advanced equations try this interactive tutorial. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Use this interactive site to practice balancing equations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click anywhere on this text to play an online periodic table tetris game. This game is more challenging than others I have found, but it actually seems to work!! Scroll to the bottom of the link and pick the level you want to play at. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click on this text to get an interesting perspective of the nucleus and electrons of atoms from David's Whizzy Periodic Table. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||