Mid-Year Science Survey

Please take some time to fill out this survey by clicking the link below.  Your honest answers will help me make decisions and teach you better for the remainder of the year.

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Calorie Spreadsheet Download Page

Go to calorie counter download page

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Visit this site to find information on food labels from almost any product.



These sites hold information from popular restaurants. If you don't find a restaurant you want to use feel free to search the web for other restaurants.

McDonalds
Subway
Wendy's
Long John Silvers
Sheetz
Dairy Queen
Taco Bell

Check Out Our New Web Site!

Check out our recent investigation and results!

Excel Spreadsheets - Graphing Activity/Sugar Data

Click on the link below to find the spreadsheet download page:

Download Class Data Spreadsheets

Fun With Food

http://sites.google.com/site/funwithfoodscangascience/home

Fat Test Data (All Classes)

Class 1 - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoW42qes10xUdHFCSTBxX2lXVmJWU3N1TVNtZmpEb0E&hl=en

Class 2 - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoW42qes10xUdDZmWng3cWc2RmUxNWZWTkNpOURwRWc&hl=en

Class 3 - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoW42qes10xUdF9jUTVOb0xDMHA3TmtsSWxRTFc4c3c&hl=en

Class 4 - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoW42qes10xUdERjNnFWeE54THl2THVqc2pqS2Fvamc&hl=en

Everest: Beyond the Limit

Here is a link to the site we visited in class today - Everest Interactivies


Homework Question:
Considering the video we watched today write at least one paragraph answering the question:

Is climbing to the top of Mt. Everest worth the cost?  Why or why not?


Make sure if you post your comment to this blog entry and include your name with the post in the Name/URL section. See example post from "Bob."

Sample Slide Posting

We will be posting our work from our stream table investigations. Here is an example of a slide show posted to a blog.

Seattle & Locks

Foss Creek Answers

What is an Octopus?

The question was posed in class today: is an Octopus an arachnid because it has eight legs?One of my students took this question into her own hands and here is what she came up with:

Hannah R. said...Mr. Scanga I found out what a octopus is. It is a cephalopod.

Cephalopods consist of groups of free swimming invertebrates, such as squids, cuttlefish and octopuses, that lack a hard shell. It is not a arachnid! Haha.

Thanks Hanna!

Landform List

Each person in your group must pick a different type of landform for our project.

List of Famous Waterfalls:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_waterfalls

List of Famous Mountains:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains

List of Famous Glaciers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers

List of Famous Canyons:
http://webecoist.com/2009/01/03/largest-deepest-canyons-gorges/

List of Famous Deltas:

Frog Eating Bird and 162 More Species

A frog that eats birds and a gecko with leopard stripes are among the 163 new species discovered last year in the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.

Check out some pictures: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/09/26/mekong.species/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto

Full Color Picture Report: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/greater_mekong_new_species_08_final.pdf

What's the deal with Stonehenge?

Here is something we were talking about in 2nd period today. Anyone is free to post your comments.

Stonehenge has mystified visitors for thousands of years. Somehow, about 4,600 years ago, people managed to haul humongous stones across southern England to a site on the Salisbury Plain. There, they erected a large circular structure. Some of the stones are more than 13 feet tall and weigh at least 25 tons.

Scientists and historians have long wondered not only how people built Stonehenge, but also why. Now, recent discoveries offer some answers. Scientists from the University of Sheffield in England and their coworkers propose that the structure was part of a religious complex dedicated to the dead.

So why do you think Stonehenge was built?

Read more at these sites:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/History/Stonehengevillage
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.16465/chosenImageId/1
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20070207/Note2.asp

New Tiny-T-Rex Discovered By Scientists

Tyrannosaurus rex -- the most fearsome predator ever to have trod the Earth -- had a pint-sized precursor, remarkably similar in appearance but no heavier than a human being, according to a new report from a team of scientists.

See more pictures here

First rocky planet found outside solar system

(CNN) -- Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earthlike planet outside our solar system, they announced Wednesday.

Story Headlines:

• The planet, known as CoRoT-7b, was detected early last year


• It took months to determine that it had a composition roughly similar to Earth's


• The planet is about five times more massive than Earth


• Astronomer: It is so close to the star it orbits that it may "look like Dante's Inferno"

Read more here

Periodic Table of the Elements

In class today we talked about the periodic table. If you find this stuff interesting:

Here is an interactive periodic table you can check out at home.

http://www.ptable.com/

Here is a periotic table with pictures of elements (above, click to enlarge)

New Giant Rat Species Discovered

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea.

Measuring 82 centimeters (32.2 inches) from nose to tail and weighing around 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds), the species is thought to be one of the largest rats ever to be found.

The discovery was made by a team from the BBC Natural History Unit inside the crater of Mount Bosavi -- an extinct volcano in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea.


Read more here

Check it Out, A Rat-Eating Plant!

Read more here

Congratulations Sixth Graders

Congratulations Class of 2015!

You are on your way to the Jr. High! I wish you all the best next year and in the years to come!

Stay in touch!

Mr. Scanga

Footprints

Discover Your

Carbon Footprint

Here!

CO 2 Effect Site: http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/co2effect/index.cfm

Paper Airplane Sites

Paper Airplane Research Websites:

http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/chouhung/saber.html

http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php

http://www.paperplane.org/

http://www.10paperairplanes.com/

http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html

United Eco-Day Activity

Click on this link to visit our Eco-Day activity.

Activty Sheet Download

Flight Videos

Boeing 747 Side/Rear View
Boeing 747 Front View
Computer Animation of Flight

Go Green This Earth Day

In class we talked about harmful CO2 gases and ways we can make a difference. Visit the following link to fill out a Big Green Help Pledge form and submit a printout of what you pledged to Mr. Scanga for extra credit in science class.

Nick.com Big Green Help

Mr. Scanga's Invention

Engineering and Empire - Ancient Egypt

Engineering an Empire Home


Visit the following links to find information about each subject:

Historians

Geographers | Map 1 | Map 2 | Map 3

Pharaoh Expert

Engineer

EdHeads

Click on the picture below to visit EdHeads.org

Simple Machines Videos

Archimedes Screw
Egyptian Drill
Pulley Types
Screw
Wedge
Inclined Plane

VIDEO: Shark Bites Dolphin

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This is an interesting story found by Jake (Class 1). Check out the video here.

Swim the Ocean with New Google Earth!

Soon a new version of Google Earth will release (version 5)

Download the new version NOW!

Check out the preview here.

Hubble Space Telescope

This picture was taken by Hubble. Hubble is the name of a telescope that orbits the earth and allows us to collect amazing data and pictures. Check out the video here.


More on Hubble

Butterfly Image

Click on the image below to see full size

George the giant lobester is FREE!!!

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A giant lobster named George escaped a dinner-table fate and was released Saturday into the Atlantic Ocean after a New York seafood restaurant granted him his freedom, according to a statement from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
George the lobster was a "sort of mascot" for City Crab and Seafood in New York.

The lobster, which PETA said was 140 years old and weighed 20 pounds, had been confined to a tank at City Crab and Seafood restaurant in Manhattan when two customers alerted the animal group.

The PETA statement did not say how the extraordinary age estimate was determined, but restaurant manager Keith Valenti told CNN that lobsters can grow a pound every seven to 10 years, and he put George's weight at 18 to 20 pounds.

"I've been here for 12 years, and that's the biggest lobster I've ever seen," Valenti said.

He said the lobster had been "sitting in the restaurant's tank and acting as a sort of mascot," but when PETA got involved and requested the release, it "seemed like the right thing to do."

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement, "We applaud the folks at City Crab and Seafood for their compassionate decision to allow this noble old-timer to live out his days in freedom and peace.

"We hope that their kind gesture serves as an example that these intriguing animals don't deserve to be confined to tiny tanks or boiled alive."

Shedding the tight confines of his old restaurant display tank, George was driven to Maine by PETA members and was returned to his natural habitat on the ocean floor Saturday, the organization said.

Nutrition Data.com

A great site to learn about nutrition!

http://www.nutritiondata.com/