Database Highlight #36: We Know the Science of That
Science fair project time is almost here. This week’s database, Science Online, makes science research fun and easy. The browseable topics and full color pictures guide students to information. More savvy researchers can use the keyword search. Anyone looking for a science project should click on Experiments under Browse Resources.
With a wealth of content and a dynamic design that facilitates STEM research and learning, the award-winning Science Online offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines. Topic Centers feature specially selected content on core science disciplines to help students find a starting point for their research, and students can also access the full, updated content of our unique science eLearning Modules, which target a variety of core topics and feature valuable Teacher Support materials for seamless in-class integration. Plus, interactive science experiments that come with lesson objectives, data tables for findings, and analysis of expected results allow students to replicate the in-class laboratory experience in a safe and user-friendly environment. – from the vendor
Science doesn’t have to just be experiments and research papers. It can be fun too! Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for Game Science have developed 11 games designed to support STEM pathways.
Action Steps
- Browse by topic or run a keyword search in Science Online. Leave an interesting fact in the comments.
- Check out the Center for Game Science and play a game.
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I watched a video, Mathematics: Early Number Systems. It talked about the progression of how people count, from the earliest systems to the calculator. I thought it was interesting how the early Babylonians had 2 symbols - one for 1s and one for 10s. The Egyptians had a few more signs: 1, 10, 100, 1000, and 1 million. It wasn't until 1200 A.D. that the numbers that we started using today became popular.
“Understanding Calculators.” Science Online, 1998, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=9413&itemid=WE40&vid=58756. Accessed 26 Mar. 2018.
about math but that fact is awesome! I had no idea our system was so "young".
I know! It's so weird, to me, to think of thousands of years with only 2 basic numbers 1 and 10, then like a thousand more with only 1, 10, etc...
Since all marine animals produce a natural electric field, known as a "bioelectric field", sharks use it to sense possible prey. It's believed that by freezing and holding their breath, cuttlefish might be able to temporarily mask their bioelectric field, using "bioelectric crypsis" to help conceal their location from sharks.
I just keep finding more reasons to think cuttlefish are amazing animals.
That's also how you avoid being eaten by a T-Rex!
In the movie Jurassic World the Indominus Rex was able to camouflage itself because it had cuttlefish DNA.