Welcome OHS Student
Unit 1: History of Science
Scientific Method
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TED: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
video - subtitles in many languages -
youtube: Put it to the test - scientific method song
They Might Be Giants sing a silly song about how we need to test ideas
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors
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Space.com: Comet Ison facts
article and photos explaining what is known about Comet ISON, heading our way
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HowStuffWorks.com: "how asteroid mining will work
read this article or search for a video on youtube to learn about plans to mine Space asteroids for resources
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Chelyabinsk research update
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How are asteroids, comets and meteors different?
youtube video. watch it and you can stop confusing the different types of space rocks -
Comet ISON update
Time
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TED: History of Keeping Time
video has subtitles in many languages
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youtube: Timeline - History of Timekeeping
animated video with more detail on time's history
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youtube: Sundials and Latitude
video showing how sundials work
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Timezones
youtube videos explaining what time zones are, why we have them, and how they work
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Sun's Motions simulator
animation of Sun's path throughout the year. Adjustable for any position and any time
Great Discoveries
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Great Discoveries packet
worksheets from the discoveries packet covered in class -
Introduction to Astronomy
Naas.co.uk
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Long Island Data Center
database of astronomy
Earth is round
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shape of the Earth
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who-discovered-the-earth-is-round
http://discovery.yukozimo.com/
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Isaac Assimov, how did we find out...
famous science fiction writer
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Scienceblogs.com
Who discovered the earth is round
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minutephysics: top 10 reasons we know earth is round
youtube video
How big is Earth
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Isaac Assimov, how did we find out...
scroll to part 5, famous science fiction writer
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Size of the Earth
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Video: How Eratosthenes calculated Earth's circumference
cosmolearning
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Eratosthenes and the Size of the Earth
Astronomy101
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Eratosthenes, father of geography
about.com geography
The Earth moves
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Scienceblogs.com
how the Earth moves, and how do we know
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Who Discovered The Heliocentric Theory?
http://discovery.yukozimo.com/
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Sun-Centered Solar System
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Universe Today: Heliocentric Model
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Aristarchus of Samoa
math history site
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Aristarchus - encyclopedia
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The Heliocentric Model
e-education
There are planets
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classification of the planets
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Lecture 12: The Wanderers
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Who Discovered Venus?
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Astronomy Cast: Planetary Motion in the Sky
podcast
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Dance of the Planets, tracking the wanderers
wiki with animation of planets motion -
Why Pluto is no longer a planet
youtube video
Stars are far away, Sun is how far?
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astronomynotes.com
stars distances, paralllax
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eaae.org
triangulation
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Distance to the Sun
scroll down
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How do you measure the distance between Earth and the Sun?
curious.astro.cornell
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Aristarchus
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Parallax and Tycho Brahe
Ancient Astronomers
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greek
mathematical view of the sky
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greek
mechanical/geometrical view
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greek
mathematician Thales
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Greek
Anaximander
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Greek
Anaximander
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indian
Vedic Astrology
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egypt
Great Pyramid - alignment with stars
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egypt
several egyptian astronomy discoveries
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egypt
calendar
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mayan
sky records
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Chinese
Chinese recorded supernova in 1054
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mayan
calendar
telescopes, galileo
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the telescope
youtube documentary
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galileo's battle with the church
youtube documentary
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How Stuff Works: Telescopes
good description of the view of the solar system through a telescope
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Cosmic Vision
national geographic
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buying a telescope
about.com
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how it's made: telescopes
youtube
Unit 2: Fundamentals of Physics
What's in Space
1. Supernova
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schoolsobservatory: Supernova definition
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simplewiki: Supernova
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Chaco Canyon image
close up
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Chaco Canyon image
perspective image
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Chaco Canyon supernova record
if you don't see how amazing this is talk to me right away
2. Star life cycle
3. Weirder sky objects
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Nasa: Gamma-Ray Bursts: Introduction to a mystery
overview of what is known about these mysterious things
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Livescience: Gamma Rays
the Hulk, and gamma rays in space
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Space.com: GRB Brightest explosion ever seen
article about a recent gamma-ray burst
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astro.berkely.edu: Gamma- Ray Bursts, more detail
more detail, good links at bottom
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Quasars and Pulsars
overview of differences
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seasky.org: Pulsars
detail of pulsars
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Vimeo video: Pulsars & Quasars
4. Galaxies
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windows2universe: Galaxies
good introduction to galaxies
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windows2universe: Milky Way Galaxy - Our Home
windows2universe
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How Stuff Works: Galaxies
many sections go into specifics about galaxies
5. Exoplanets
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Nasa.gov: Exoplanets
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phdcomics: Exoplanet Detection techniques
complicated information but really great video
6. Our Planets
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Bob the Alien: Planets
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Inventory of the Solar System
polaris.iastate.edu
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Nasa: Our Solar System
links to different planets on left
7. Our Sun
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Bob the Alien: our Sun
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windows2Universe: The Sun
look at the links on the left to select specific topics
8. other questions
Numbers Station
Math Skills
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Sig Figs. wkst
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Khan Academy: unit conversions
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basic unit conversions
between similar types of units
Extensions
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Space.com: Apollo 13
good video
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Universe Today: 13 Things that Saved Apollo 13
good article
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xkcd what if: Lethal Neutrinos from Supernovae
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howstuffworks: How much oxygen does a person consume in a day
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Space.com: Voyager 1: Earth's Farthest Spacecraft
Sept.2013 article
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BBC: timeline of the far future
Unit 3: Forces / Laws of Motion
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Wired: Do Heavier Objects Really Fall Faster?
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youtube: Feather and Coin in a vacuum
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youtube: Galileo: Hammer and Feather Drop on Moon
MOTION ANALYSIS PROJECT
Bridges
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youtube: arch bridges
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youtube: MIT - bridge design
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pbs: building big - bridges
lots of links to click through
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howstuffworks: how bridges work
Skyscrapers
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pbs: building big - skyscrapers
lots of links to click through
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factmonster: skyscrapers
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howstuffworks: how skyscrapers work
Parachutes
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discovery: physics of sky diving
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explainthatstuff: how parachutes work
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weston.org: how parachutes work
click through the different links towards the top of the page
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wisegeek: what is terminal velocity
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youtube: scishow - terminal velocity
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youtube: Felix Baumgartner's world record freefall
In 2012, Felix Baumgartner set a record for the highest freefall, jumping from the edge of space..
Airplanes
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youtube: the aerodynamics of flight
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smithsonian institute: the four forces of flight
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Bloomfield textbook: how airplanes fly
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youtube: Veritasium - how does a wing actually work?
REAL explanation of where lift comes from. the Bernoulli pressure explanation is a common misconception :D
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nasa: angle of attack and lift
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hyperphysics: angle of attack
Rockets
Gravity
Other*
links for fun
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F.LUX
automatically adjust your screen brightness so that you dont disrupt your body's sleep patterns -
youtube: bigThink - Neil deGrasse Tyson: My Man Newton
beloved astrophysicist Tyson explains why scientists always and forever love and respect Newton
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youtube: bigThink - Michio Kaku, mankind has stopped evolving
physicist Michio Kaku
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Reddit: What is it like living near the border of a timezone?
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BBC: 100 things we learned this year
Build your own sundial - links
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Sundial.damia.net
make a wall-mounted paper sundial
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Sundials.co.uk
5 different paper sundial models
Unit 4: Sound
Sound Research Project
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Deafness and Hearing Loss
nichy.org
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Hearing Loss: What's Age Got To Do With It?
healthyhearing.com
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Hearing Loss of Older People
patient.co.uk
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How does a hearing aid work?
babyhearing.org
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Can you hear sounds in space?
Cornell: Curious About Astronomy
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Sound Echoes
school for champions
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How the Voice Works
etnet.org
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The Causes of Muteness
ehow.com
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Fact Sheet: Common Problems that Can Affect Your Voice
etnet.org
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How Hearing Works
howstuffworks.com
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How the brain recognizes speech sounds is revealed
medical news today