Electives

Central Middle School of Science Library

Elective Links

Aviation | Family & Consumer Science |

Space Exploration | Sign Language | Edible Science | Technology | Spanish


Spanish:
Busque la pagina: http://www.mexonline.com/daydead.htm
Busque la pagina 2: http://daphne.palomar.edu/muertos/dayofthedead.htm
Busque la pagina 3: http://www.azcentral.com/rep/dead

Edible Science:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/chocolate.htm
http://www.exploratorium.edu/chocolate/
http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/000609cs.shtml
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7849sci5.html
Microbiology, What its all about: this site is from the American Society for Microbiology. There is information on microbes, tools of microbiologists, a timeline and more.: http://www.microbeworld.org/htm/aboutmicro/abt_start.htm
Microbes: another site from the American Society for Microbiology. On this one you can solve microbial mysteries, get you hands on a million microbes, and look at exeriments. Fun!: http://www.microbe.org/
Cells Alive! This site has all kinds of information on cells and microbiology.: http://www.cellsalive.com/
Food Safety: information on food safety from the office of Food Safety Office which is part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.: http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/
Bad Bug Book: microorganisms in your food, Yuck! This site from the Food and Drug Administrations Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has information on all those nasty critters that could be living in your food.: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html
Fight Bac! from the Partnership for Food Safety Education this site goes over the four steps of careful food preperation.: http://www.fightbac.org/main.cfm
Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease from the American Museum of Natural History. This site has information on diseases that you catch.: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/index.html

Aviation:

Aviation Enthusiast Corner: You can go many different directions from this site. Use the links for Aircraft locator by type and by manufacturer to get information on specific airplanes. The link for finding museums is broken down by state and province and lead to many interesting museum sites.: http://www.aero-web..org/air.htm
The National Warplane Museum web site does have information on specific airplanes. Use the "Our Collection" link on the left to get a list airplanes covered on this site.: http://www.warplane.org/
The National Aviation Hall of Fame web site contains hundreds of biographies of aviators. Use the link for NAHF Enshrinees to find them.: http://www.nationalaviation.org/
The Ninety-Nines is an international organization of women pilots. There is quite a bit of information here such as: past Ninety-niners, current Ninety-niners, how to become a pilot, and other organizations and programs for women pilots. For biographies use the links under "Women who paved the way".
http://www.ninety-nines.org/

Family and Consumer Science:

Occupational Outlook Handbook: a database of job and career information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Search by job name or go through the alphabet to find new careers. There are also job categories on the left.: http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Employment Projections: this site is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and gives projections of how many jobs will be available for different careers through 2008.: http://www.bls.gov/emp/#outlook
State Occupational Projections: these projections are just for the number of jobs that may be available in 2008 in selected career categories by state.: http://almis.dws.state.ut.us/occ/projhome.asp
Asian Recipes: Scroll to the bottom of the page for a list of countries. After clicking on your country, look in the chart in the center for types of recipes.: http://www.asiarecipe.com/
Sally's Place Ethnic Cuisine: another alphabetical list of countries. Once you get to a country page the recipes can be found by either scrolling to the bottom or clicking on 'recipes' on the left.: http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/ethnic_cusine.htm
Yahoo's Society and Culture: Foods category: Countries are listed alphabetically. One click will not take you directly to the recipes, several clicks are necessary to get out of the categories and into a web site.: http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Food_and_Drink/Countries_and_Cultures/

Other information on countries is can be found on the Social Studies page.

Technology:

Super Bridge: This is a PBS-NOVA web site. Go through the process of building a bridge. Learn about different kinds of bridges and specific bridges. There are Shockwave games and Quicktime movies as well.: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/

Sign Language:

American Sign Language Browser: this is a great site! The bottom frame contains the alphabet. Click on a letter to get to the entries, they will show up on the right. Click on a word and a written description will appear on the left followed by a Quicktime movie showing the movements of the sign.: http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

Space Exploration:

Planetary Fact Sheets: from the Government Printing Office of the United States. There is a fact sheet on each planet, many of the moons, comets

and more.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

The Comet's Tail: This site, from the University of California, Berkely, has activities, a gallery of pictures, history of comets, origin of comets, characteristics, and killer comet information.

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/cometstale/com.html

The Nine Planets tour: this site is from SEDS, Students for the Exploration and Developement of Space. Scroll down to view the table of contents for this site.

http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

PlanetScapes: Look on the left hand side for a list of Planets.

http://planetscapes.com/

Space Weather: this site is chock full of information on the sun and its' relationship with the earth.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Astro-venture Academy: Go through the training sites to become master scientists in the different areas and prepare for missions. This is a NASA site.

http://astroventure.arc.nasa.gov/aa/astronomy1.html

American Meteor Society: What is the difference between a comet and a meteor? This site from the American Meteor Society explains the difference and has movies to!

http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/metmis.html

Windows on the Universe: Click on Enter the Site to begin. Then pick a subject from those listed to get information. Subjects include: people, the universe, our planet, data, our solar system, myths, and more.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

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