Standard+G+Science+Applications


 * Post Standard G Resources here.**
 * Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s)**.

Alex The Industrial Revolution Yale-New Haven Teacher’s Institute The Industrial Revolution. (2011). [] Grades 9-12 This resource gives both teachers and students an overview of the Industrial Revolution. The site has primary source material and bibliographies, and does a nice job of showing the impacts that technology had on industry and the people who worked during that period.
 * G.12.4 Show how a major scientific or technological change has had an impact on work, leisure, or the home**

Toni Eckmayer Title: FIRST: Family of programs Link:[|FIRST: Family of Programs] //FIRST// is a not-for-profit organization devoted to helping young people discover and develop a passion for science, engineering, technology, and math. Founded over 20 years ago by inventor Dean Kamen, the annual programs culminate in an international robotics competition where teams win recognition, gain self-confidence, develop people and life skills. Students showcase their work using Legos as their working medium. (Grades K-8)

Becca Standard G New Technology: Popular Science [|Popular Science] This site features articles on new technology that has been made or that is currently trying to be made by scientists and engineers. These articles explain the new technology and science’s role in development process. The articles are pretty dense, and the content they choose to report on is definitely geared to a more adult audience, so it would be best from grades 6-8.

Katie Standard G (G.8.4) Propose a design (or re-design) of an applied science model or a machine that will have an impact in the community or elsewhere in the world and show* how the design (or re-design) might work, including potential side-effects Title: Machines for Kids [|Machines for Kids] By having students use this site to understand machines and their progressions, they can understand how technology and the improvements within it are helpful to our society. By looking at simpler things and relating it to other machines that they know of, they are becoming aware of the progress of machinery and can brainstorm other ways that the machinery might work. Grade Level: 6-8

Title: Robots Link: [|Stump Your Friends With Your Mosaic Robot] This particular article on the website starts out with a puzzle application, and tries to see if you can put it together correctly once it is cut apart. The article explains about the varied applications of the robots pictured and how and where they could be used, either on earth or on other planets. (Grade K-5)

Title – The Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Link to resource - [] Description of resource – This is a link to a department at the University that may have students or professors willing to come into the classroom and talk about the work they do with technology. They can address the topic of technological advancements that made their work possible, and things that might be possible in the future because of what they are working on currently. This website is just a way for me to remind myself (and my classmates) to remember that we have the university and a potential wealth of guest speakers just miles away from our potential future classrooms. Range of appropriate grade levels – 7th – 8th Linda Chappetto

Jessica Title: ScienceDiscovery 100 Biggest Science Discoveries Link: [|Science Discoveries] This website is all about the 100 greatest science discoveries throughout history. Students can choose from different areas of science such as Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Evolution, Genetics, Medicine, and Physics. In each category there are lists of the greatest discoveries for that particular area of science. Students can find out when things were discovered and who discoveredit. (Grades K-8)

Standard: G.4.5 Ask questions to find answers about how devices and machines were invented and produced Title: Destroy the Castle Link: [|Man the Gates] Description: This site allows the students to learn about the trebuchet, when was an invention that it was used during the medieval times.Students can use the interactive trebuchet to knock down a castle they are able to change five elements on the trebuchet to make it better. Students get to be the engineers and make one of medieval's most devastating weapon. Grade: 3-5

Science, Standard G: Science Applications (G.4.4.) Simple Machines [|EdHeads - Simple Machines] This resource is an online interactive game that allows students to explore various areas of the home to locate and learn about simple and compound machines. Students select a room to explore and then click on various household items within that room. The game then prompts students to answer questions about what simple machines are involved and how they work to make the item function. The game includes both simple and compound machines. This resource would be helpful in showing students everyday examples of simple and compound machines. This resource could also be used to help students assess their own knowledge of simple and compound machines. Grades 2-6

Title: The New Way Things Work [|The New Way Things Work] This book by David Macaulay demonstrates how machines, from the lever and inclined plane to the Internet, work. The author links the invention of one machine to the concept of another, using a cartoon woolly mammoth to illustrate the scientific principles. Grades: 3-12