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 PREPARING FOR COLLEGE

• COLLEGE.COM "BOOSTING YOUR SCORES"

CONNECTIONS TO SPECIFIC TOPICS

PHYSICS	CHEMISTRY	EARTH/SPACE
"Fear of Physics" demonstrations & lectures "Musical Acoustics" animations & text information High Speed photography commercial website with samples of videos Stellar Spectra: is an interactive site where you identify what elements are in a star from its spectra. "Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics analyzes the content of specific movies and also common types of special effects (like breaking windows).	A "virtual chemistry lab" at the Oregon Museum of Science and Technology with labs you can do at home, too. WebElements is a periodic table with information about each element, including pictures and some Quicktime movie clips. Tutorial on Balancing Equations [Flash] allows you to try problems and check answers. Ghost Town: Chernobyl is a photo-journal of a young Russian woman's motocycle trips through the area around the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown Flame Balls are what happens to flames in space. "Flames do something odd in space: they form tiny almost-invisible balls that might reveal the secrets of combustion here on Earth."	The website for our text Earth Science by Tarbuck and Lutgens. Want to see what happens when an asteroid hits a planet? Click here! To determine the distance between any two points based on their latitude and longitude, click here. The Chandra website has great images of supernova and other nifty stuff from an orbiting X-ray telescope. Earth Observatory is a great site for photos and information on NASA's work lookinga the Earth Here's the officail wrsbite for the Mars Rover.
BIOLOGY	INTERDISCIPLINARY
	The work of the Eames (makers of the "Powers of Ten" film) is on this on-line exhibit. The wildest optical illusion I have ever seen is at this site!

 OTHER USEFUL STUFF

Graph Paper

• This is a site with graph paper you can download. Lots of formats. You need Adobe Reader. http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com/graph_paper.htm

Plagerism:

• What it is, how to avoid it, how to do references correctly. Website from the University of California at Davis http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm
• This site was originally published in 1995 as "A Research Guide for Today's High School Students".I. Lee, the author of this site is currently a teacher-librarian at St. Francis Xavier S.S. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html

Study Skills:

• This site has info.on studying for tests, taking notes, and other useful skills! http://www.coebrownacademy.com/AssistedStudy/LearningStrategies.htm

College:

• How high school is different from college; short and sweet, at http://www.smu.edu/alec/whyhighschool.html

References:

• The Brittanica Concise on Yahoo! is a good way to get started on researching a topic.
• Need information on how to reference a paper? The English and Social Studies departments reccommends MLA standards, which can be found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html.

Web Skills:

• Ohio State University has a set of web tutorials to help you improve your ability to find and evaluate websites for research.

   

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