Internet Links for Topics in This Unit
The following list of internet links are provided to serve as a useful
resource in your investigation of the topics in this STC/MS unit.
The Big Bang is difficult to envisage and some of the web sites about it are difficult
to understand. Try New Scientist’s http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/big3/bigbang/items.html
or explore it in French with the Grade 5 French immersion students at St. Marguerite
d'Youville School, Ottawa at http://www3.sympatico.ca/marg.youville2/origine.htm
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Sometimes when things sink it can be disastrous. Here are some sinking links. Find out
about the Titanic at http://topcat.bridgew.edu/~kschrock/ED572/langille/index.htm
http://www.sciencedrive.com/mitchk/interest.htm
and allow http://www.rdc.uscg.mil/iippages/titanic.html
to lead you to more sites about this famous ship.
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Find out what it’s like to use a hot air balloon at http://www.hot-airballoons.com/index.html
and see some fun examples of hot air balloons at http://www.tnpsc.com/balloons
. Discover more about the history of ballooning at http://acasun.eckerd.edu/~fryelj/webpage2.html
Read an article about how chlorine was used as a deadly dense gas in World War 1 by
clicking on http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/chlorgas.html
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Go to the Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence ITALY http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/emuseo.html
to find a model of Galileo’s thermoscope and some other early scientific instruments.
If your computer is fast enough take a virtual tour of some of the galleries.
Confused about Fahrenheit and Celsius? Get some help converting between the two scales
at http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/weather/fahrcels.html
or, for information on both of these and Kelvin try http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/temperature_scale.html
See more of the Alaska pipeline at http://www.corecom.net/JPO/jpo.html
Find out more about how temperature changes density and drives the Earth at the
following sites:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~geol351/Spring98/06/default.htm
about plate tectonics in relation to the ocean basins
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See more pictures of manpowered planes and the low materials from which they are made
at http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/index.html
Asbestos is heat resistant and hazardous. Find out more about this interesting
substance at http://www.musc.edu/dehs/Asbestos_Info.html
, http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/asbesto2.htm
, http://www.asbestos-institute.ca/ , http://www.science.wayne.edu/~oehs/asbestos.html
and http://www.mlink.net/~jhwang/john2.html
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Find out how craftspeople and artists use melting to create bronze works of art at http://www.zianet.com/gddelanoy/Essay.html
http://www.valleybronze.com/process/process.html
http://www.artworksfoundry.com/process.htm
and http://www.eccnet.com/fourwinds/process.html
See high tech examples of castings at http://blue.nownuri.net/~cj0011/chunjim/metal5.htm
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Milk is a mixture. Find out more about the chemistry and physics of milk at http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/chem.html
Be prepared for some heavy reading!
Water may be a common substance but how much do you really know about it? Find out more
at http://wwwga.usgs.gov/edu//mwater.html
Find out how salt is removed from water. Visit the world's largest reverse osmosis
desalination plant at Yuma http://www.yao.lc.usbr.gov/PHOTO.HTM
See how impurities affect melting points and find out how melting points can be used to
identify substances using a melting point apparatus. Click on http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/organic_lab/melting_point/index.html
For some example uses of shape memory and superelastic alloys look at http://www.sma-inc.com/Applications.html#SE
Use this site to investigate how steel is manipulated by Japanese sword makers http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jgates/sword/index.html
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Find out how electricity was first used to extract aluminum from its compounds by
Charles Martin by going to http://www.oberlin.edu/~chem/history/cmh/cmharticle.html
Find out more about hydrogen at http://www.clean-air.org
- Could the other construction materials have contributed to the Hindenburg disaster? Link
to http://www.intheloop.net/newsstand/newsstar/061197/hinden.html
and http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Aviation_
- and_Aeronautics/History/Hindenburg_Disaster
to find out about some other possibilities.
Locate other airship sites at http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship/htmls/museums.htm
Read about the Curies’ search for two radioactive elements at the Nobel site http://www.nobel.se/essays/curie and track
down other Nobel Prize winners from their homepage at http://www.nobel.se/enm-index.html. Find out
even more about the Curies at the Marie Curie Net Resource Page http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/curie.htm
and obtain links to lots more Curie sites.
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Find out more about synthetic materials at the Macrogalleria, a web site that focuses
on plastics http://monomer.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/floor1.html
Find out more about elements and the Periodic Table at http://www.mlink.net/~jhwang/john2.html
or http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/pics-c/boiling-point-c.html
Some special facts about elements with special reference to metals at http://www.lipmann.co.uk/special1.htm
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Find out more about the Golden Gate Bridge from http://www.goldengate.org/History/HistoryContents.html
For background information on Lavoisier try http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/lavois.html
http://www.chem.mtu.edu/pcharles/scihistory/Lavoisier.html
and http://www.dupont.com/corp/r-and-d/lavoisier/antoine.html
To find out about some other famous early chemists click on http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/Contexts/chemist.html
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More about the materials that go to make up bicycles
How are advances in materials science applied to the design of modern bicycles? Find
out at the Materials Science and Engineering Center at http://www.crc4mse.org/MEL/BIKE/Index.html
Find out more about the history of bikes and how advances in materials and design has
altered their appearance over time at The Burgwardt Bicycle Museum at http://members.aol.com/bicyclemus/bike_museum/PedHist.htm
The Exploratorium provides information on the physics and the materials science of
bicycles, see http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/index.html
About material science in general
Use Yahoo to find out anything on this topic http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Engineering/Material_Science
Try the Manchester Materials Science Gallery for an illustrated introduction http://www.umist.ac.uk/MatSci/gallery/gallery.html
Look at some changes in the technology we have in our homes at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech
(You will need Shockwave)
Information sources on some common materials
Aluminum http://www.aluminum.org and http://www.oberlin.edu/~chem/history/cmh/cmharticle.html
Copper http://cutopics.copper.org
Glass http://www.pennynet.org/glmuseum
Plastics http://monomer.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/floor1.html
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Encarta Encyclopedia http://encarta.msn.com/find/default.asp
Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/index.html
My Virtual Encyclopedia Science and Technology http://www.refdesk.com/science.html
Yahoo Science http://dir.yahoo.com/Science
The History of Science page http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-0g6.htm
Need help exploring the World Wide Web? Try the Franklin Institute World Wide Web
Workbook at http://sln.fi.edu/primer/setup.html
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