Food Web

Are you having trouble with the food web? Not sure how to put it together?
Here is a great interactive site to help you. Read through the page and when you get to the bottom click on "create a food web".
This will open a new window and you can practice making a web. Notice the different ecosystems at the bottom. You can click on these to see an example of a web in this particular ecosystem.

Have fun. Create_ a_ web

BIOMES

As we work on our NSP prestentation this week you might need more information on the biome you are researching. This site was created by 9th graders in Springfield Oregon. It links you to sites that describe the different biomes. click on the word below to access the page.

Biomes

If you need extra help researching your area of the United States there is a sheet posted in class and on my edline page for your class.

Have you thought about what 3D object you will use in your presentation?

Post me some ideas that could be used. I know others will appreciate the ideas.

Nitrogen Cycle

Did you ever want to create a video about a science topic? Here are two videos from students that did just that. Both used the nitrogen cycle. We have been studying the cycle in class but mostly the nitrogen in the soil. Did you know that it also happens in the water? Guess what the most important part of the cycle is underwater???????????? You guessed it.. BACTERIA.

Watch both of these and then post me a science idea you would like to video.

I have access to a camera and I think it would be

awesome if someone got creative and made a

video of a favorite science topic

Video #1 is a group of biology students from college.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdY4I-EaqJA

Video #2 is a group of high school boys teacing the nitrogen cycle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHTD7CneBLA

CO2 and Coral Reefs

We have talked about the cycles of nature in class, especially the carbon-oxygen cycle.
A carbon sink if a natural or man-made reservoir that accumulates and stores carbon for long periods of time. The ocean is a carbon sink.
Click the link below to see how this is affecting the coral reefs.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2009/03/study-worlds-co.html

Read the article and post me suggestions for reducing the carbon in the environment.

If you need help remembering the carbon-oxygen cycle, click here.