6th

= __6th GRADE THEME: ENERGY__ = [|What is Energy] (Challenge Level) -- investigate this page & the links at the left if you want to know more about the mysterious thing we call "energy!" [|Click here for the Interactive Energy Home] (FYI: Their are tabs at the top that let you check out different rooms of the house.)

= **__Safety Links:__** = [|Safety Contract Online] (If you lost your safety contract, just print out a new one! Also, you can use this as a resource when you are doing your take home test on safety... HINT HINT) [|Lab Safety Rap on You-Tube]: (What's wrong with this group of lab rats?)

= __**Observation/Inference:**__ = [|Inferences_Krist_Evas_combined.ppt]<-- Click to download notes [|Online practice for observation and inference skills] [|Observation and inference games]

= __Graphing:__ = [|Graphing notes_6th.doc] <-- Click to download notes [|Good Graphing Practice Quizzes] -- on the left side, choose the # of questions & the difficulty level & type of graph [|Short Graph Quiz] -- see if you can read this graph & answer all 5 questions correctly [|Quizville Math Games] -- practice your graphing skills [|Online flash cards & games] review your graphing vocab with flashcards and games [|What type of graph? flashcards & games] Do you need some graph paper? [|Click here to link to a printable 1cm graph] [|Quizville Math Games] -- practice your graphing skills

= __**Measurement Notes:**__ = [|METRIC NOTES.doc]<-- Click to download

=__**Light:**__= [|Flash cards for our basic light vocabulary] (You can play different games to practice or just use the flash cards) [|Animation] -- Newton's prism experiment Bending Light Online Simulation (Do an experiment with reflection & refraction online) [|Bill Nye's Optics Part 1 on You Tube] (This is about reflection & refraction -- Click on Part 2 and 3 when you are done) [|Webquest: Why is the sky blue?](Create a children's book to explain this simple (?) question.) [|Tour of the Electromagnetic spectrum] (Nova) [|Alien Attack Game] -- Learn about light & use the clues to find the alien who tried to destroy the earth! [|Waves on a String Online Simulation] (Click on the link to do an experiment with amplitude wavelength & frequency) [|Bending Light Online Simulation] (Click on the link or use the widget below to do an experiment with reflection & refraction online) media type="custom" key="11546468" [|The Physics Zone] -- This page has a good collection of interactive applets on wave energy (both sound & light)
 * [[file:NOTES_LIGHT ENERGY.doc]] <-- Click to download the Notes**

=__Sound:__= __[|Don't You Hear That?]__ -- Good overview on how sound works (test your hearing at the bottom of the page) [|Webquest: The Soundry] The Soundry is an exciting, interactive, and educational web site about sound. Covering everything from the most basic concepts of what sound actually //is// to the specifics of how humans perceive it [|Sound Sketch Tool] - you can design a soundwave & play it back with this tool [|The Physics of Sound] -- Here's some basic info about sound waves & interactive examples of different sounds at the bottom of the page.

= [|6th grade: Solar System Scale Calculator] = (put in the diameter of your sun in inches (red box) or mm (green box) & then click "Calculate"... this website will tell you how your model compares to the real solar system

= **__Astronomy Links:__** = Mrs. Law has a whole page of great astronomy links Click here to check them out!

= Ecology Links: = [|Web Earth Online]

=__**Invasive Species:**__= Click here to visit Mrs. Law's Invasive Species Page:

= = =__Shark Dissection:__= [|Virtual Shark Dissection] [|Shark Week (Discovery Channel)] (true shark stories, games, anatomy, etc.) [|Shark Dissection Movies] [|Shark Scavenger Hunt](use the interactive book to find the answers to 10 interesting shark questions)

= __Owl Pellet Dissection:__ = __[|Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection]__