Science Interactives

There are many science interactives on the Internet. Try different ones and post a comment about it. Describe the simulation, write about what you learned, or what you liked about the simulation.

PHET Colorado

Weebly Science Interactives

Human Eye and Vision Problems

Here are several interactives that help with parts of the eye and correcting nearsightedness and farsightedness:

Parts of the Human Eye

Fixing Vision Problems

Here is a video that does a nice job describing vision problems.

Colored Filters and Objects

Here is the website we used in class to learn about how objects appear as the color that is being reflected.

Colored Filters

Refraction

Why does that diamond ring sparkle so much? Why does that fish in the pond not exactly appear where you thought it was? Why, refraction of course. Here are several websites and demonstrations that help with the concept of refraction.

Refraction

Refraction through a glass block

Winter Break

I hope everyone had a great winter break. What did everyone do? Send some pictures to me and I will post some pictures of what students did over break. Here are some of my pictures from a trip to Indianapolis last week. 

Indiana University football stadium

Downtown Indianapolis

More downtown Indianapolis

Downtown canal

 NCAA Hall of Champions Museum

Inside the NCAA Hall of Fame 

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

There are several websites that are helpful in describing the electromagnetic spectrum. Here are two of them.

http://www.darvill.clara.net/emag/

http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/index.html

In the above website there is also a video series that reviews each part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This video series can be found here: http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/emsVideo_01intro.html