Charles D. Owen Middle

Heritage, Growth, and Promise

Parents and Students
For Virtual Days learning:
I will be using Google Classroom for assignments.  Your kiddos are already set up in my classroom.  I will be adding links here as I receive them, to give kiddos educational activities to reinforce content.

Genetics

Extracting DNA

See if you can separate DNA from a cell and find the DNA fingerprint.

Punnett Square Fun

Test your abilities to predict the probability of different traits in chickens, lemmings, etc.   CLICK 'RUN THIS TIME' AT THE TOP WHEN YOU SEE THE PUZZLE PIECE 

Dog Breeding- Interactive!!

Use your knowledge of the principles of genetics to breed some puppies,,,be careful, nobody pays big money for a mutt!

DNA Matching Game

How many complete strands of DNA can you complete?  A-T and C-G  

Mendel's Peas!

Go to this website, and PLEASE! click "View Student's Instructions" and READ before entering the Web Lab.  If you finish this Web Lab, go back and go into the Web Directory and learn about all sorts of awesome genetics topics --trust me, its fun!

Protists

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/x_smal1.html

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS09/LS09.html

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2536211d099e0.html

http://www.quia.com/cb/55632.html

http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=1298246654

Climate Change: Global Warming

http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/climate_home.html

http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/scientists/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday/what-could-disappear.html?smid=tw-nytimes

Weather

 http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=relative+humidity+table&view=detail&id=9E6156A4189069E7AEDC4EDFD1F1F4E9D8F08370

http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-forecasting.htm

http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/

http://illiniweather.com/pages/kids_weather_links.htm

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/weather

 http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/games.html

http://ema.ohio.gov/kids_page/html/games.htm

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/weather_games.html

http://www.funbrain.com/weather/index.html

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/goes/wwa/

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/k4/online/Wonline1.html

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/word-finds/weather-words.html

http://geographyworldonline.com/weathergames.html

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/weather_games/sc-snow-and-ice-unscramble.html

Storm Chasers

Cool Math Games

NOAA: National Weather Service

Discovery Education

Gizmo: Explore Learning