Snowflake Fossils

We had a nice mini vacation- two snow days plus Saturday and Sunday. How fun was that. Back for one day and then off for Christmas break! Make it a point to get outside and enjoy all the snow.

Have you checked out the Snowflake Gallery yet? It is posted in the favorites list on the right side. Click on Snowflake Fossils on the left side of the website page, under snow activities and learn how to preserve the image.

If you are willing to do this I will supply the material. I will give you 2 slides and cover slips. Post a comment that you are intested and I will give you material after break.

In January we will examine them under a microscope and

photograph them like we did the onion cells.

Many of you did watch the videos that came attached to the blog pages and left comments.

I will continue to post science news and projects from class. Be checking back to view some of the slide shows created for our pathogen project. Leave some good comments for others to see.

Have a wonderful break.

Mrs. C.

A Practice Page

Is this your first visit to the blog page? WELCOME.
We hope you enjoy the time you spend here.

Click on the title of this page ("A Practice Page"). This gives you a page of only this information.
To practice how this works, click on the link below, watch the video
then click the back button on the computer to come back here.
Read and answer the question below.

Video on How Things Work

What would you like to test if we did the same experiment? Why?
Type just a few sentences to answer these questions.
Sign only your first name and last initial and click POST.

You are all done! I will review your comment and post to the site.

Smallpox

You have all heard about smallpox but do you really
know what it is? Here is an easy to read site for Smallpox
Healthy Kids

The Mayo Clinic in Ohio has a good page on Smallpox.
Click the links to read more information
Mayo Clinic on smallpox

What is the history of Smallpox?
Here is a site with good information but you have to read!!
History for Kids

Wikipedia also has a good site for Smallpox
Smallpox

E. coli

Here on the website for the Center for Disease Control is good information about E. coli
CDC on E.coli

There have been some big outbreaks of this pathogen. On this news page is a good video about E. coli. Click on the video to watch.
NBC Video


Here is an easy to read health page for E. coli

staying_healthy

Do you want to know more about Epidemic diseases?

Here is a thinkquest with many of the diseases that have spread throughout the world.

Anatomy of an Epidemic


A good site for you to learn about other diseases not on our list. Click on Epidemics on the top of the page and begin your reading. There are many items to click on for information. Use the list of at the right side to learn about specific diseases. If you read about a disease, look at the map and see how it has spread in the world.

Post me a message. What is one fact you learned that you didn't know already?

Influenza

Here is the TeenHealth page on influenza

kidshealth.org

Science News for kids has a Flu Patrol article about influenza
sciencenewsforkids


This website will give you information about the Historical Pandemic of 1918.
The Great Pandemic

Cholera

Right now in many parts of the world people are sick with the pathogen that causes Cholera

Cholera Fact Sheet

Information about the vaccine from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Cholera Vaccine

Want a little more information about cholera?

health.iafrica.com/features/1350240.htm

A video from the World Health Organization (WHO)
on the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, Africa

Video from Zimbabwe

Rabies

So you think you know about rabies?

• Follow the link below to learn more about Rabies.

Read some of the different pages and then take the quiz under the activities tab. Leave me a note and tell me how you did.

• What did you learn that was new? Post me comments

CDC Rabies Just 4 Kids

Information about the virus can also be found here.

Check out the classification of the virus

Rabies Virus

A major outbreak of rabies in 1944

find the information here. Read the article in the Times magazine-

Rabies outbreak

Bubonic Plague

What does a flea have to do with a disease?

There is a Virtual Museum of Bacterium.

Click on this link and search this pathogen

Yersinia pestis

Have you read the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

website for this pathogen?

The Plague

The worst case of the plague was the Black Plague-

Read about the Black Death of the Middle Ages
Click on the link and scroll down for information, more links are at the bottom of the page

Interested in more History of the Plague? Here is a nice site with lots to click on. Scroll down and do a little reading. Need some more info for your project? Click on Modern Day Symptoms.

Bubonic and Black Plague

Your Team

Your team is composed of a Scientist, Doctor, Reporter

The scientist- research the pathogen, what it looks like, how it infects, what is the source of the pathogen.

The doctor- research the harm the pathogen causes, what are the symptoms, how is it treated. Is a vaccine or an antibiotic used.

The reporter- will research how the public can be safe. who is vulnerable to this pathogen and how can it be stopped.

Virus and Bacteria Project

This is your starting page for the Virus and Bacteria Project

This project will give you a chance to look closely at one pathogen and the harm it can cause.

WHAT IS A PATHOGEN? you ask.

Click on this link for a good definition.

http://www.iaff.org/HS/Resi/infdis/What_is_a_pathogen.htm