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If student is interested in a topic  for first nine weeks ( report, poster diagram, powerpoint or model) one may be completed, but not for extra credit. See teacher for approved topic.

Topics include but not limited to:

1. Investigate 5 careers in science by creating a poster with pictures and information (job description, education, salary, etc.)

2. Read about a scientific experiment and identify the steps of the scientific method used.

3. Report on the deformed frogs found in Minnesota.

4. Develop a timeline of scientific discoveries during your lifetime.

5. Diagram of the three temperature scales, history of each and record high's and low's in different locations around the world.

6. Diagram and report on atmospheric layers.

7. Report on space shuttle's flight through the atmosphere.

8. Powerpoint on auroras

9. Report on heat island effects

10. Greenhouse effect

11. Global warming

12. Poster of global winds

13. Jet streams and the weather

14. Air pollution and its effects on the human body

15. Acid rain

16. Ice core samples of composition of air

17. Effects of hog waste in N.C.

18. History of Hurricanes in N.C.

 

Second Nine Weeks

1. Build a working weather station and record observations for 1 week

2. Power point presentation of different clouds

3. Science of lightning

4. Major snowstorms of N.C.

5. Tornadoes of N.C.

6. Weather map report- collect weather maps for a week and write a 2 page report (story) of the weather that has occurred

7. Present drought situation in N.C. and ways to conserve

8. Compare cities with same latitude but different climate

9. Monsoons

10. Ice Age theories

11. Water Biomes

12. 2-page report on weather folklore

13. Complete a climatagram for  10 cities around the world and  identify the type of biome that each city is located in

14. Display how radar is used to determine speed

15. Report on findings about NASCAR. Speed of cars, tracks, g-force, inertia, safety, acceleration and horsepower

16. Speeds of different animals (ex. snail, whale, cheetah) include pictures

17. Discovery of Teflon

18. Biography of Sir Isaac Newton

19. Moon's effect on the earth's tides

20. Law Universal Gravitation and black holes

21. What would you weigh on other planets?

22. Biography - Galileo

23. Cartoons- Physics

24. History of the measurement of the speed of light

25. Research navigational terms related to speed and velocity

26. Investigate the forces that hold molecules together

27. Differences in fingerprints

28. Explain the mathematical formula for the law of universal gravitation

 

 

3rd Nine Weeks

                                                                                                          1. Archimedes

                                                                                                          2. Blaise Pascal

                                                                                                          3. Daniel Bernoulli

                                                                                                          4. Charles law

                                                                                                          5. Boyles law

                                                                                                          6. Submarines

                                                                                                          7. Scuba diving

                                                                                                          8. Submersibles

                                                                                                          9. Drafting by racecars

                                                                                                         10. Wind tunnels

                                                                                                         11. Physics of pitching

                                                                                                         12. Boomerangs

                                                                                                         13. Horsepower- NASCAR

                                                                                                         14. James P. Joule

                                                                                                         15. Diary for 1 week of simple machines used

                                                                                                         16. Poster of different simple machines

                                                                                                         17. Theories of how the Egyptian pyramids were built 

                                                                                                         18. Physical model comparing  plant cells to animal cells

                                                                                                         19. Cancer

         

4th- Nine Weeks

                                                                                            1. Diagram comparing mitosis and meiosis

                                                                                            2. Gregor Mendel comic book

                                                                                            3. Poster of Mendel's experiments

                                                                                            4. Diagram of protein synthesis

                                                                                            5. Genetic engineering

                                                                                            6. Human genome project

                                                                                            7. James Watson

                                                                                            8. Francis Crick

                                                                                            9. Gene therapy

                                                                                           10. mutations

                                                                                           11. Model of DNA

 

                                                                                      

                                                 

                                                                                               

 

 

       
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