Links...
BC Science 7 online.
Here you go - activities, videos, multiple choice practice assessments: Everything you need to do better in Science 7 (well, almost everything!)
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0070947864/sitemap.html
UNIT 1 (Ecology)
Chapter 1 Organisms (living and non-living things / ecosystems / how things interact / what things do)
Producers Consumers Decomposers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z2SIdzT5jU&feature=related
This short (4 minute) video gives an overview of what producers, consumers, and decomposers do. It talks about "simple sugars" and the source of energy.
What is an Ecosystem (Australian video, but it works): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuejxJttBqo&feature=related
Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VejLXTsJrJc&feature=related
This short (4 minute) video gives a very brief look at the jaw structures of each general classification of consumer. Pay attention to the general ideas: tooth shape, location, and jaw movement.
Ecosystems: How wolves changed the Yellowstone ecosystem - amazing! (4:33 minutes) : http://themetapicture.com/when-they-brought-these-wolves/
Practice identifying the role of organisms in an ecosystems (10 minutes): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=g7YJ27U
Climate and weather: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/science/earth-sci/climate-weather-sci/ 3 + minutes from National Geographic
Facing Climate Change: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/environment/global-warming-environment/way-forward-climate/ nearly 8 minutes from National Geographic, covers global impacts of climate change and its effects.
Raw data on Climate Change from the American National Climatic Data Center: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cmb-faq/globalwarming.html All the graphs go up!!!
The Greenhouse Effect (11 minutes): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=CZw5r7Y (from a fellow 'ShowMe' creator, makes the connection to the role of Carbon Dioxide)
Symbiosis (4 minutes): http://ed.ted.com/lessons/symbiosis-a-surprising-tale-of-species-cooperation
Black Line Masters:
1-3, Niches
1-4, Lynx and Hare
1-8, Associations
Notes:
Section 1.1
Section 1.1 (adapted)
Section 1.2
Section 1.2 (adapted)
Section 1.3
Section 1.3 (adapted), part a
Section 1.3 (adapted), part b
Terms (usually defined in the first line of the 'page'): abiotic, biotic, climate, species, ecology, ecologist, ecosystem, biomes, population, habitat, community, niche, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, decomposer, symbiosis, parasitism, parasite, host, mutualism, commensalism.
Chapter 2 Cycles (water / Carbon Dioxide / Food chains)
Ecological Pyramids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJplkrliUEg&feature=related
This 4 minute video is, well, not very exciting. It does show you 3 types of ecological pyramids:
-a pyramid of numbers
-a pyramid of biomass
-a pyramid of energy
It also uses the term "tropic level", which you'll need to research on your own.... This video also talks about producers and consumers.
Respiration (A ShowMe enrichment video, lots of terms and chemistry. Very brief): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=rhtHa6q
A sad story about Monarch Butterflies: Ottawa Citizen article
The Food Chain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasmwZQr-nc&feature=related
A 6 minute look at food chains which finishes up by introducing food WEBS. This funny video also touches on the impact on a food chain when one link is removed.
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=144619
Already listed for Chapter "1", a nice review of those concepts, superimposed on new material for chapter 2.
Food Chains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6wqG4nb3M&feature=related
An excellent 2:46 minute song that reviews food chains, energy flow, and even touches on concepts from chapter 1. A great part of a review before the test.
Energy Transfer in food chains/webs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvTDylIxMA&feature=related 6 minutes (ok, a bit more) this does a good job of explaining things.
Food Chains, Food Webs and Biomes
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=144619
This 30 minute video reviews what was presented in Chapter 1 with lots of visual examples and a few 'surprises'. A good video to watch before the test.
Photosynthesis (from another ShowMe teacher, this one has enrichment information in it. 2 minutes, 45 seconds): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=nEkiJoO
Cycles
The Water Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2jPsfy2iq8&feature=related <3 minutes in length
The Carbon Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vwa6qtEih8 2 minutes in length (includes topic of human impacts on the cycle)
The Carbon Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFOO1h6WmR4&NR=1 5 minutes in length, ties to Chapter 1 and 7 information too!
The Carbon Cycle (4 minutes or so): http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-carbon-cycle-nathaniel-manning
The landscape of oil (4 minutes of photographs): http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_photographs_the_landscape_of_oil.html
Ecological Succession (a video lesson, by a teacher): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V49IovRSJDs&feature=related
Ecological Succession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03vxRYsJ4Y&feature=fvwrel
Ecological Succession / natural disturbances ('music video', read the words on the images!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8rJgpIGpw
Ecological Succession (claymation school project): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhYArqKVF9Q&feature=related
The Carbon Cycle, The Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change, a TED Ed talk on youTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztWHqUFJRTs&list=TLucOOsQ-ezVqbsGrqKkYPSH4OyOfMcVDD
Terms: food chain, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, top consumer, cellular respiration, food web, energy flow, pyramid of numbers, carbon cycle, water cycle, evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, ground water, run-off, pollution, pollutants, bioaccumulation, limiting factor, carrying capacity, global warming, ecological succession
Notes:
Section 2.1 notes: Student notes - section 2.1 (word document) Section 2.1 notes (adapted): Here. (word document)
Section 2.2 notes: Student notes - section 2.2 (word document) Section 2.2 notes (adapted): Here. (word document)
Section 2.3 notes: Student notes - section 2.3 (word document) Section 2.3 notes (adapted): Here. (word document)
Chapter 3 Ecosystems and People (traditional ecological knowledge / monitoring / human impact / conserve and protect ecosystems)
Introduced species list (wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_introduced_species
BBC News story: Introduced species: Pythons in the Florida Everglades
Here is a Parks Canada web link that will take you to lots of places. Discussion on the impact of climate change, what thinks are being monitored in parks across Canada, and what the data is showing... You could spend a lot of time here (links on the left hand side): http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/eco/eco3.aspx
Scotch Broom website: http://www.shim.bc.ca/invasivespecies/_private/scotchbroom.htm
Scotch Broom website #2: http://www.broombusters.org/
Invasive Plants in BC: http://www.invasiveplantcouncilbc.ca/
Invasive species in North America: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/23/f-invasive-species.html
Captive Breeding (Black-footed Ferrets): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-loneliest-animals/captive-breeding-success-stories/4920/
Captive Breeding (Peregrine Falcons), a 4:28 min/sec video....: http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?Lang=En&n=35D48E39-1
Introduced Species news story (Feb 1 2012) from the BBC - Pythons in Florida: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/science-environment-16791094
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT: Bingay Creek Coal Project North of Elkford (pdf file): Bingay Creek Coal Report
Terms (not all of them are here): habitat, long-term monitoring, baseline data, environmental impact study, natural resources, renewable resources, sustainability, habitat fragmentation, introduced species, native species, fossil fuels, greenhouse effect, acid rain, endangered species, captive breeding, selective harvesting
Notes:
Section 3.1: 3.1 notes
Section 3.1 adapted: 3.1 notes adapted
Section 3.2: 3.2 notes
Section 3.2 adapted: 3.2 notes adapted
Section 3.3: 3.3 notes
UNIT 2 (Chemistry)
Chapter 4 Properties of Matter (solids, liquids and gases / measuring matter / Change of state)
Wikipedia definition of 'matter': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter
Wikipedia page for 'states of matter' (including a 4th: PLASMA): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter
Simple site on properties of matter; http://www.aisp.net/vster/properties1.htm
Quickie matching game on change of state: http://www.neok12.com/quiz/STSMAT02
Matter, mixtures, properties, and more (more complex): http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/pre/matter.html
Density exercises (kinda fun) - interactive site on density: http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/density.htm
Chapter 5 Classifying matter (mixtures / elements and compounds / the Periodic Table)
The Periodic Table - a website with an interactive Table (tons of information): http://www.webelements.com/
Another interactive Periodic Table: http://www.ptable.com/
A Periodic Table with actual photographs! very cool: http://periodictable.com/
A Ted ex on EVERY element - oh man, I couldn't stop clicking on them and watching !!! definitely an enrichment site!!! http://ed.ted.com/periodic-videos
How small is an atom? (TED Talk, 5 minutes or so): http://www.ted.com/talks/just_how_small_is_an_atom.html
Potassium and water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMN3y8k9So
Lithium and water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs
Calcium (metal) and water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rFsFwdkTU
Chapter 6 Solutions (solutes and solvents / dissolving stuff / acids and bases)
Supersaturated solutions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGvy2FPfCw
Another supersaturated solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3bKIOkcmk
UNIT 3 (Earth Sciences)
ROCK POLISHING LAB MARKING KEY
Introduction stuff:
Mount Pinatubo:
1. (Wikipage of information): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo
2. Geography.com page of information: http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/pinatubo.htm
3. Photos from space (before and after - note the visual changes!):http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/AstronautPinatubo/
4. Show on the eruption and the impact on Clark Air Force Base: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe0VPQftsc&feature=related 10 minutes in length
5. Part 2 of the above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvpBbiCG-7s&NR=1 10 minutes in length
6. Part 3 of the above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74QkHh45bjw&NR=1 8 minutes in length... information on the after effects: environmental impacts and human impacts - worth watching!
Cosmology and Astronomy:
Scale of the Earth and the Sun (Khan Academy, excellent site): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/scale-of-earth-and--sun?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
about 10 minutes.
Geologic dating techniques;
Carbon 14 #1 (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/carbon-14-dating-1?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Carbon 14 #2 *Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/carbon-14-dating-2?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Potassium-Argon Dating (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/potassium-argon--k-ar--dating?playlist=Cosmology+and+Astronomy
Chapter 7 The Earth (layers / minerals / types of rocks)
February 2015, a new discovery?
Is there an 'inner' inner core?: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/layers-upon-layers-geologists-discover-earths-inner-cores-inner-core/45185
Earth's Structure (in 3D, visually makes more sense than the text image... some #s are different....) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqe_6L9V54 3 minutes
Earth's Structure, with connections to "how do we know this?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAITe0MImY about 4 minutes long Great video.
The Structure of the Earth (Khan Academy) 10 minute video: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/structure-of-the-earth?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Inside the Earth (1/2 hours): www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=314
Rock types and formation (tons of stuff here): http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/environment_earth_universe/rock_cycle/revise1.shtml
Rocks and Minerals: There is all sorts of stuff here to explore! .... http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/
Igneous rocks/rock types (under 3 minutes): http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/27682-assignment-discovery-types-of-volcanic-rock-video.htm
Intrusive Igneous Rocks (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=325
Metamorphic rocks (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=329
The Rock Cycle (with short videos); http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html
Online interactive map of BC mines: http://www.miningassociationbc.com/
Minerals (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=323
Mineral crystal information: http://www.yourgemologist.com/crystalsystems.html
Fantastic Fossil Finds (4 minutes or so, from Nova): http://videos.howstuffworks.com/wgbh-nova/13625-fantastic-fossil-finds-video.htm
Sedimentary Rocks (1/2 hour, Grand Canyon stuff): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=328
Definitions: Metamorphic rock, Most everything else from the chapter: http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/
Chapter 8 The Earth's Crust (weathering / the rock cycle / the crust / Plate Tectonics)
(all sorts of 1/2 hour videos on Earth Science: http://www.learner.org/resources/series78.html?pop=yes&pid=317
The Rock Cycle (website, great diagram off West Coast of Vancouver Island):http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=128
The Rock Cycle (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_cycle
The Rock Cycle and more (lots of stuff here!!!): http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/environment_earth_universe/rock_cycle/revise1.shtml
The Rock Cycle (with short videos); http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html
Convection Currents and Plate Tectonics (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plates-moving-due-to-convection-in-mantle?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Pangaea:http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0806/es0806page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization and also:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html
Pangaea (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/pangaea?playlist=New%20and%20Noteworthy 5 and a bit minutes long. Talks about evidence.
Plate Tectonics - showing the continents moving over time (interactive): http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/drift.html
The next Super Continent? : Next Super Continent? An article from the BBC
Volcanoes form (National Geographic video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRfEGvp6wDU&feature=fvwrel
Ocean floor spreading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ctk4KR-KU&feature=related
Subduction plate/mountain building/Earthquake...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2_axAA9Mw&NR=1
Subduction Zones (Ring of Fire, West Coast of North America): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfziy_860GU&NR=1 about 3 minutes long.
Plate Boundaries: http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/slip.html
Plate Tectonics (Intro) 3 minutes - excellent!: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_plateintro/
Plate Tectonics - image showing plates, earthquakes and volcanoes "interactive": http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_tectonic/
Plate Tectonics (1/2 hour very good): www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=317
Plate Tectonics - more evidence (2:30 minutes) good images: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_wegener2/
Plate Tectonics (Hawaii), 4 minutes, excellent!: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_hawaii/
Plate Tectonics: Boundary types and locations (interactive image) very good: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_shake/
Plate Tectonics (boundaries): http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html
Plate Tectonics (Khan Academy) #1, 8 minutes long:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics---difference-between-crust-and-lithosphere?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Plate Tectonics #2 (Khan Academy) Evidence: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics----evidence-of-plate-movement?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Plate Tectonics, Divergent boundaries (Khan Academy) 12 minutes: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics----geological-features-of-divergent-plate-boundaries?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Plate Tectonics, Convergent boundaries (Khan Academy) 6 minutes long: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics---geological-features-of-convergent-plate-boundaries?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Hawaiian Islands formation (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/hawaiian-islands-formation?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Mountain Building (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=318
Meet Amasia, the next Supercontinent: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/meet-amasia-the-next-supercontin.html?rss=1
AND, here too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16934181
PLATE TECTONICS assignment: HERE
So you think Earthquakes are rare? Check out this US Geological monitoring site to find out how many earthquakes there have been in the last week!: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
Crowswnest Volcanics (image is misleading as it suggests that Crowsnest Mountain is a volcano - it is NOT a volcano): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowsnest_Formation
Crowsnest Volcanics - shows a photo and is not misleading: http://www.rossway.net/canvolcanics.htm
Chapter 9 The Earth's Surface ( landforms / water and ice / Earthquakes / Volcanoes)
Earthquake waves..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZPNjLj8hR8&feature=channel 3 minutes long, very good video!
Transverse and longitudinal waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbuhdo0AZDU&NR=1 all of 6 seconds long!
P-Waves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-wave Very technical definition, but on the right side is a very good animation to watch.
S-Waves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Wave As above, but the same style of animation shows how they are different.
Seismic Waves (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/seismic-waves?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Longitudinal waves, earthquakes, and sound - wave motion!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yuojKQGWw&NR=1 less than 3 minutes long. good video!
How we know about the inside of the Earth (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/how-we-know-about-the-earth-s-core?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20AstronomyEarthquakes (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=320
Earthquakes: how we study ancient ones, 3+ minutes: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_trench/
USGS website with lots of information: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=P%20wave
Montserrat Volcano: 1) Very recent: http://www.montserratvolcano.org/
2) Official Montserrat volcano site: http://www.mvo.ms/
3) Photos (2) from a commercial jetliner flying by as it exploded: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260293/Montserrat-Soufriere-Hills-volcano-erupts-Caribbean-island.html
4) Interactive Volcano site from the BBC (EXCELLENT): http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/geog/envhaz/flash/volcanoes/index_cause.shtml
St. Vincent Volcano (Soufriere) - I climbed this one!: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1600-15=&volpage=photos
Try Google Earth for some images of these volcanoes...
Tsunamis (TEDx lesson talk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9vPv-T51I&list=TLucOOsQ-ezVqbsGrqKkYPSH4OyOfMcVDD
First Nations oral history helps to prove the Earthquake risk; http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/09/earthquakes_and_tsunamis_in_the_pacific_northwest_native_american_myths.html (a website)
Thinking places...
Educational TED talks: http://ed.ted.com/
TED Talk on natural synchronicity (bird flocks, schools of fish, and PEOPLE!) 22 minutes, great vidieos: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html
TED Talk on MATH - Fractals - used in ancient African designs (makes you think!) 17 minutes, oh my, math is beautiful!:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html
TED Talk on "The Mad Scientist Of Music" (17 minutes), cool sounds, creative!: http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_applebaum_the_mad_scientist_of_music.html
Inside the Antarctic Ice Cap (10 minutes), the record of climate change: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/lee-hotz-inside-an-antarctic-time-machine
Time-lapse photography of ice loss (climate change proof) 20 minutes: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss
Architecture re-thought (22 minutes): http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_hedonistic_sustainability.html
More on cool architecture by Bjarke Ingels (love this one) 20 minutes: http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architecture_tales.html
Intelligence of crows (10 minutes): http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
Origami and math (16 minutes), fascinating: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html
This is broken (20 minutes), just think about what "broken" is, and why it is broken!: http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_this_is_broken_1.html
Do you think you have it tough? How about effort and creativity? http://www.youtube.com/embed/qiLDMBDPCEY?rel=0
Starting with the Earth being the size of a marble, this is the Solar System, "to scale"; http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/to-scale-the-solar-system/
A new ancestor has been discovered in the evolution of the species we know as "Homo Sapiens": http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150910-human-evolution-change/?sf13075153=1&sf6240394=1 (National Geographic site)
Just for fun....
5 minutes of spectacular juggling set to an old Fat Boy Slim song (Praise You) on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEb3YknGUks
The 'famous' "talking dog" YouTube video (2 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw&feature=player_embedded
World's oldest fossils (article): http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/08/22/science-oldest-fossils-bacteria-sulphur.html
News article on planet Mercury - the surface is interesting!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15113388
The ongoing adventures of the Voyageur Spacecrafts: www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/little+spacecraft+that+could/6136694/story.html
Videos of the Earth at night - VERY COOL: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/earth-at-night-videos/
How complicated is YOUR pony-tail? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/science/ponytail-shape-is-determined-by-complex-physics.html?_r=2
Poop on the moon and other space travel facts and related mirror experiments!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_580953&feature=iv&src_vid=QNP8wy3S_kY&v=dsRsap2_RAc
Elk Lakes motorcycle video: http://youtu.be/FCAJPyvrfFE
Louie the dog: http://biggeekdad.com/2013/10/louie-dog/
10 year old drummer: http://vitaminl.tv/video/224
African lions and the 'Lion Whisperer' (15 minutes of bliss, and comments on ecosystems and habitats) http://gopro.com/videos/video-of-the-day/2013/11/20/
Parkland Middle School in Cranbrook - school wide enthusiasm and school spirit video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvqK6jHKcA&feature=share
Amazing Harp players: https://www.youtube.com/user/CamilleandKennerly
Smarter Everyday...
Minute Physics! (YouTube channel, various physics topics):
Common misconceptions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM630Z8lho8&list=PLED25F943F8D6081C&index=2
How long is a second?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp20Sc8qPeo
How lasers work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SBSbsdiYg
The Hairy Ball Theorem (the proof about why there must be some place on Earth with no wind, at any given point in time anyway): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4UGZEjG02s
Optical Illusion: (file to open)
BC Provincial Learning Outcomes
Chapter 1 Organisms (living and non-living things / ecosystems / how things interact / what things do)
Producers Consumers Decomposers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z2SIdzT5jU&feature=related
This short (4 minute) video gives an overview of what producers, consumers, and decomposers do. It talks about "simple sugars" and the source of energy.
What is an Ecosystem (Australian video, but it works): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuejxJttBqo&feature=related
Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VejLXTsJrJc&feature=related
This short (4 minute) video gives a very brief look at the jaw structures of each general classification of consumer. Pay attention to the general ideas: tooth shape, location, and jaw movement.
Ecosystems: How wolves changed the Yellowstone ecosystem - amazing! (4:33 minutes) : http://themetapicture.com/when-they-brought-these-wolves/
Practice identifying the role of organisms in an ecosystems (10 minutes): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=g7YJ27U
Climate and weather: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/science/earth-sci/climate-weather-sci/ 3 + minutes from National Geographic
Facing Climate Change: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/environment/global-warming-environment/way-forward-climate/ nearly 8 minutes from National Geographic, covers global impacts of climate change and its effects.
Raw data on Climate Change from the American National Climatic Data Center: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cmb-faq/globalwarming.html All the graphs go up!!!
The Greenhouse Effect (11 minutes): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=CZw5r7Y (from a fellow 'ShowMe' creator, makes the connection to the role of Carbon Dioxide)
Symbiosis (4 minutes): http://ed.ted.com/lessons/symbiosis-a-surprising-tale-of-species-cooperation
Black Line Masters:
1-3, Niches
1-4, Lynx and Hare
1-8, Associations
Notes:
Section 1.1
Section 1.1 (adapted)
Section 1.2
Section 1.2 (adapted)
Section 1.3
Section 1.3 (adapted), part a
Section 1.3 (adapted), part b
Terms (usually defined in the first line of the 'page'): abiotic, biotic, climate, species, ecology, ecologist, ecosystem, biomes, population, habitat, community, niche, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, decomposer, symbiosis, parasitism, parasite, host, mutualism, commensalism.
Chapter 2 Cycles (water / Carbon Dioxide / Food chains)
Ecological Pyramids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJplkrliUEg&feature=related
This 4 minute video is, well, not very exciting. It does show you 3 types of ecological pyramids:
-a pyramid of numbers
-a pyramid of biomass
-a pyramid of energy
It also uses the term "tropic level", which you'll need to research on your own.... This video also talks about producers and consumers.
Respiration (A ShowMe enrichment video, lots of terms and chemistry. Very brief): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=rhtHa6q
A sad story about Monarch Butterflies: Ottawa Citizen article
The Food Chain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasmwZQr-nc&feature=related
A 6 minute look at food chains which finishes up by introducing food WEBS. This funny video also touches on the impact on a food chain when one link is removed.
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=144619
Already listed for Chapter "1", a nice review of those concepts, superimposed on new material for chapter 2.
Food Chains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6wqG4nb3M&feature=related
An excellent 2:46 minute song that reviews food chains, energy flow, and even touches on concepts from chapter 1. A great part of a review before the test.
Energy Transfer in food chains/webs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvTDylIxMA&feature=related 6 minutes (ok, a bit more) this does a good job of explaining things.
Food Chains, Food Webs and Biomes
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=144619
This 30 minute video reviews what was presented in Chapter 1 with lots of visual examples and a few 'surprises'. A good video to watch before the test.
Photosynthesis (from another ShowMe teacher, this one has enrichment information in it. 2 minutes, 45 seconds): http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=nEkiJoO
Cycles
The Water Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2jPsfy2iq8&feature=related <3 minutes in length
The Carbon Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vwa6qtEih8 2 minutes in length (includes topic of human impacts on the cycle)
The Carbon Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFOO1h6WmR4&NR=1 5 minutes in length, ties to Chapter 1 and 7 information too!
The Carbon Cycle (4 minutes or so): http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-carbon-cycle-nathaniel-manning
The landscape of oil (4 minutes of photographs): http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_photographs_the_landscape_of_oil.html
Ecological Succession (a video lesson, by a teacher): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V49IovRSJDs&feature=related
Ecological Succession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03vxRYsJ4Y&feature=fvwrel
Ecological Succession / natural disturbances ('music video', read the words on the images!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8rJgpIGpw
Ecological Succession (claymation school project): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhYArqKVF9Q&feature=related
The Carbon Cycle, The Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change, a TED Ed talk on youTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztWHqUFJRTs&list=TLucOOsQ-ezVqbsGrqKkYPSH4OyOfMcVDD
Terms: food chain, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, top consumer, cellular respiration, food web, energy flow, pyramid of numbers, carbon cycle, water cycle, evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, ground water, run-off, pollution, pollutants, bioaccumulation, limiting factor, carrying capacity, global warming, ecological succession
Notes:
Section 2.1 notes: Student notes - section 2.1 (word document) Section 2.1 notes (adapted): Here. (word document)
Section 2.2 notes: Student notes - section 2.2 (word document) Section 2.2 notes (adapted): Here. (word document)
Section 2.3 notes: Student notes - section 2.3 (word document) Section 2.3 notes (adapted): Here. (word document)
Chapter 3 Ecosystems and People (traditional ecological knowledge / monitoring / human impact / conserve and protect ecosystems)
Introduced species list (wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_introduced_species
BBC News story: Introduced species: Pythons in the Florida Everglades
Here is a Parks Canada web link that will take you to lots of places. Discussion on the impact of climate change, what thinks are being monitored in parks across Canada, and what the data is showing... You could spend a lot of time here (links on the left hand side): http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/eco/eco3.aspx
Scotch Broom website: http://www.shim.bc.ca/invasivespecies/_private/scotchbroom.htm
Scotch Broom website #2: http://www.broombusters.org/
Invasive Plants in BC: http://www.invasiveplantcouncilbc.ca/
Invasive species in North America: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/23/f-invasive-species.html
Captive Breeding (Black-footed Ferrets): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-loneliest-animals/captive-breeding-success-stories/4920/
Captive Breeding (Peregrine Falcons), a 4:28 min/sec video....: http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?Lang=En&n=35D48E39-1
Introduced Species news story (Feb 1 2012) from the BBC - Pythons in Florida: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/science-environment-16791094
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT: Bingay Creek Coal Project North of Elkford (pdf file): Bingay Creek Coal Report
Terms (not all of them are here): habitat, long-term monitoring, baseline data, environmental impact study, natural resources, renewable resources, sustainability, habitat fragmentation, introduced species, native species, fossil fuels, greenhouse effect, acid rain, endangered species, captive breeding, selective harvesting
Notes:
Section 3.1: 3.1 notes
Section 3.1 adapted: 3.1 notes adapted
Section 3.2: 3.2 notes
Section 3.2 adapted: 3.2 notes adapted
Section 3.3: 3.3 notes
UNIT 2 (Chemistry)
Chapter 4 Properties of Matter (solids, liquids and gases / measuring matter / Change of state)
Wikipedia definition of 'matter': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter
Wikipedia page for 'states of matter' (including a 4th: PLASMA): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter
Simple site on properties of matter; http://www.aisp.net/vster/properties1.htm
Quickie matching game on change of state: http://www.neok12.com/quiz/STSMAT02
Matter, mixtures, properties, and more (more complex): http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/pre/matter.html
Density exercises (kinda fun) - interactive site on density: http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/density.htm
Chapter 5 Classifying matter (mixtures / elements and compounds / the Periodic Table)
The Periodic Table - a website with an interactive Table (tons of information): http://www.webelements.com/
Another interactive Periodic Table: http://www.ptable.com/
A Periodic Table with actual photographs! very cool: http://periodictable.com/
A Ted ex on EVERY element - oh man, I couldn't stop clicking on them and watching !!! definitely an enrichment site!!! http://ed.ted.com/periodic-videos
How small is an atom? (TED Talk, 5 minutes or so): http://www.ted.com/talks/just_how_small_is_an_atom.html
Potassium and water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMN3y8k9So
Lithium and water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs
Calcium (metal) and water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rFsFwdkTU
Chapter 6 Solutions (solutes and solvents / dissolving stuff / acids and bases)
Supersaturated solutions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGvy2FPfCw
Another supersaturated solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3bKIOkcmk
UNIT 3 (Earth Sciences)
ROCK POLISHING LAB MARKING KEY
Introduction stuff:
Mount Pinatubo:
1. (Wikipage of information): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo
2. Geography.com page of information: http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/pinatubo.htm
3. Photos from space (before and after - note the visual changes!):http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/AstronautPinatubo/
4. Show on the eruption and the impact on Clark Air Force Base: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe0VPQftsc&feature=related 10 minutes in length
5. Part 2 of the above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvpBbiCG-7s&NR=1 10 minutes in length
6. Part 3 of the above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74QkHh45bjw&NR=1 8 minutes in length... information on the after effects: environmental impacts and human impacts - worth watching!
Cosmology and Astronomy:
Scale of the Earth and the Sun (Khan Academy, excellent site): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/scale-of-earth-and--sun?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
about 10 minutes.
Geologic dating techniques;
Carbon 14 #1 (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/carbon-14-dating-1?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Carbon 14 #2 *Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/carbon-14-dating-2?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Potassium-Argon Dating (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/potassium-argon--k-ar--dating?playlist=Cosmology+and+Astronomy
Chapter 7 The Earth (layers / minerals / types of rocks)
February 2015, a new discovery?
Is there an 'inner' inner core?: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/layers-upon-layers-geologists-discover-earths-inner-cores-inner-core/45185
Earth's Structure (in 3D, visually makes more sense than the text image... some #s are different....) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqe_6L9V54 3 minutes
Earth's Structure, with connections to "how do we know this?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAITe0MImY about 4 minutes long Great video.
The Structure of the Earth (Khan Academy) 10 minute video: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/structure-of-the-earth?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Inside the Earth (1/2 hours): www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=314
Rock types and formation (tons of stuff here): http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/environment_earth_universe/rock_cycle/revise1.shtml
Rocks and Minerals: There is all sorts of stuff here to explore! .... http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/
Igneous rocks/rock types (under 3 minutes): http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/27682-assignment-discovery-types-of-volcanic-rock-video.htm
Intrusive Igneous Rocks (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=325
Metamorphic rocks (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=329
The Rock Cycle (with short videos); http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html
Online interactive map of BC mines: http://www.miningassociationbc.com/
Minerals (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=323
Mineral crystal information: http://www.yourgemologist.com/crystalsystems.html
Fantastic Fossil Finds (4 minutes or so, from Nova): http://videos.howstuffworks.com/wgbh-nova/13625-fantastic-fossil-finds-video.htm
Sedimentary Rocks (1/2 hour, Grand Canyon stuff): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=328
Definitions: Metamorphic rock, Most everything else from the chapter: http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/
Chapter 8 The Earth's Crust (weathering / the rock cycle / the crust / Plate Tectonics)
(all sorts of 1/2 hour videos on Earth Science: http://www.learner.org/resources/series78.html?pop=yes&pid=317
The Rock Cycle (website, great diagram off West Coast of Vancouver Island):http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=128
The Rock Cycle (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_cycle
The Rock Cycle and more (lots of stuff here!!!): http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/environment_earth_universe/rock_cycle/revise1.shtml
The Rock Cycle (with short videos); http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html
Convection Currents and Plate Tectonics (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plates-moving-due-to-convection-in-mantle?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Pangaea:http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0806/es0806page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization and also:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html
Pangaea (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/pangaea?playlist=New%20and%20Noteworthy 5 and a bit minutes long. Talks about evidence.
Plate Tectonics - showing the continents moving over time (interactive): http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/drift.html
The next Super Continent? : Next Super Continent? An article from the BBC
Volcanoes form (National Geographic video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRfEGvp6wDU&feature=fvwrel
Ocean floor spreading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ctk4KR-KU&feature=related
Subduction plate/mountain building/Earthquake...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2_axAA9Mw&NR=1
Subduction Zones (Ring of Fire, West Coast of North America): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfziy_860GU&NR=1 about 3 minutes long.
Plate Boundaries: http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/slip.html
Plate Tectonics (Intro) 3 minutes - excellent!: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_plateintro/
Plate Tectonics - image showing plates, earthquakes and volcanoes "interactive": http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_tectonic/
Plate Tectonics (1/2 hour very good): www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=317
Plate Tectonics - more evidence (2:30 minutes) good images: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_wegener2/
Plate Tectonics (Hawaii), 4 minutes, excellent!: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_hawaii/
Plate Tectonics: Boundary types and locations (interactive image) very good: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_shake/
Plate Tectonics (boundaries): http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html
Plate Tectonics (Khan Academy) #1, 8 minutes long:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics---difference-between-crust-and-lithosphere?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Plate Tectonics #2 (Khan Academy) Evidence: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics----evidence-of-plate-movement?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Plate Tectonics, Divergent boundaries (Khan Academy) 12 minutes: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics----geological-features-of-divergent-plate-boundaries?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Plate Tectonics, Convergent boundaries (Khan Academy) 6 minutes long: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/plate-tectonics---geological-features-of-convergent-plate-boundaries?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Hawaiian Islands formation (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/hawaiian-islands-formation?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Mountain Building (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=318
Meet Amasia, the next Supercontinent: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/meet-amasia-the-next-supercontin.html?rss=1
AND, here too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16934181
PLATE TECTONICS assignment: HERE
So you think Earthquakes are rare? Check out this US Geological monitoring site to find out how many earthquakes there have been in the last week!: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
Crowswnest Volcanics (image is misleading as it suggests that Crowsnest Mountain is a volcano - it is NOT a volcano): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowsnest_Formation
Crowsnest Volcanics - shows a photo and is not misleading: http://www.rossway.net/canvolcanics.htm
Chapter 9 The Earth's Surface ( landforms / water and ice / Earthquakes / Volcanoes)
Earthquake waves..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZPNjLj8hR8&feature=channel 3 minutes long, very good video!
Transverse and longitudinal waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbuhdo0AZDU&NR=1 all of 6 seconds long!
P-Waves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-wave Very technical definition, but on the right side is a very good animation to watch.
S-Waves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Wave As above, but the same style of animation shows how they are different.
Seismic Waves (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/seismic-waves?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
Longitudinal waves, earthquakes, and sound - wave motion!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yuojKQGWw&NR=1 less than 3 minutes long. good video!
How we know about the inside of the Earth (Khan Academy): http://www.khanacademy.org/video/how-we-know-about-the-earth-s-core?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20AstronomyEarthquakes (1/2 hour): http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=320
Earthquakes: how we study ancient ones, 3+ minutes: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_trench/
USGS website with lots of information: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=P%20wave
Montserrat Volcano: 1) Very recent: http://www.montserratvolcano.org/
2) Official Montserrat volcano site: http://www.mvo.ms/
3) Photos (2) from a commercial jetliner flying by as it exploded: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260293/Montserrat-Soufriere-Hills-volcano-erupts-Caribbean-island.html
4) Interactive Volcano site from the BBC (EXCELLENT): http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/geog/envhaz/flash/volcanoes/index_cause.shtml
St. Vincent Volcano (Soufriere) - I climbed this one!: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1600-15=&volpage=photos
Try Google Earth for some images of these volcanoes...
Tsunamis (TEDx lesson talk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9vPv-T51I&list=TLucOOsQ-ezVqbsGrqKkYPSH4OyOfMcVDD
First Nations oral history helps to prove the Earthquake risk; http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/09/earthquakes_and_tsunamis_in_the_pacific_northwest_native_american_myths.html (a website)
Thinking places...
Educational TED talks: http://ed.ted.com/
TED Talk on natural synchronicity (bird flocks, schools of fish, and PEOPLE!) 22 minutes, great vidieos: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html
TED Talk on MATH - Fractals - used in ancient African designs (makes you think!) 17 minutes, oh my, math is beautiful!:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html
TED Talk on "The Mad Scientist Of Music" (17 minutes), cool sounds, creative!: http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_applebaum_the_mad_scientist_of_music.html
Inside the Antarctic Ice Cap (10 minutes), the record of climate change: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/lee-hotz-inside-an-antarctic-time-machine
Time-lapse photography of ice loss (climate change proof) 20 minutes: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss
Architecture re-thought (22 minutes): http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_hedonistic_sustainability.html
More on cool architecture by Bjarke Ingels (love this one) 20 minutes: http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architecture_tales.html
Intelligence of crows (10 minutes): http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
Origami and math (16 minutes), fascinating: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html
This is broken (20 minutes), just think about what "broken" is, and why it is broken!: http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_this_is_broken_1.html
Do you think you have it tough? How about effort and creativity? http://www.youtube.com/embed/qiLDMBDPCEY?rel=0
Starting with the Earth being the size of a marble, this is the Solar System, "to scale"; http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/to-scale-the-solar-system/
A new ancestor has been discovered in the evolution of the species we know as "Homo Sapiens": http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150910-human-evolution-change/?sf13075153=1&sf6240394=1 (National Geographic site)
Just for fun....
5 minutes of spectacular juggling set to an old Fat Boy Slim song (Praise You) on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEb3YknGUks
The 'famous' "talking dog" YouTube video (2 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw&feature=player_embedded
World's oldest fossils (article): http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/08/22/science-oldest-fossils-bacteria-sulphur.html
News article on planet Mercury - the surface is interesting!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15113388
The ongoing adventures of the Voyageur Spacecrafts: www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/little+spacecraft+that+could/6136694/story.html
Videos of the Earth at night - VERY COOL: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/earth-at-night-videos/
How complicated is YOUR pony-tail? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/science/ponytail-shape-is-determined-by-complex-physics.html?_r=2
Poop on the moon and other space travel facts and related mirror experiments!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_580953&feature=iv&src_vid=QNP8wy3S_kY&v=dsRsap2_RAc
Elk Lakes motorcycle video: http://youtu.be/FCAJPyvrfFE
Louie the dog: http://biggeekdad.com/2013/10/louie-dog/
10 year old drummer: http://vitaminl.tv/video/224
African lions and the 'Lion Whisperer' (15 minutes of bliss, and comments on ecosystems and habitats) http://gopro.com/videos/video-of-the-day/2013/11/20/
Parkland Middle School in Cranbrook - school wide enthusiasm and school spirit video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvqK6jHKcA&feature=share
Amazing Harp players: https://www.youtube.com/user/CamilleandKennerly
Smarter Everyday...
Minute Physics! (YouTube channel, various physics topics):
Common misconceptions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM630Z8lho8&list=PLED25F943F8D6081C&index=2
How long is a second?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp20Sc8qPeo
How lasers work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SBSbsdiYg
The Hairy Ball Theorem (the proof about why there must be some place on Earth with no wind, at any given point in time anyway): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4UGZEjG02s
Optical Illusion: (file to open)
BC Provincial Learning Outcomes