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Welcome Middle School Science Team! Please check back often as we will update this page with information throughout the year.

Cool Science Sites
 * Teaching**
 * **Site Name** || Selected Long-term Project/Science Fair/Extra Credit Possibilities ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://www.earth2class.org/er/students/sel_longterm.php ||
 * **Site Author** || The Earth to Class ||
 * **Suggested By** || Michael Passow ||
 * **Description** || “Suggestions for projects from teachers and organizations. This site has over 500 fully searchable and categorized science fair projects, with full instructions and explanations. You can search for ideas for your projects by simply entering a keyword on whatever interests you.” ||


 * Environment**
 * **Site Name** || Trash Inc. The Secret Life of Garbage ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1620084176 ||
 * **Site Author** || CNBC ||
 * **Suggested by** || Mike Nolan ||
 * **Description** || “Interesting video regarding garbage and the way it is handled. Quite a bit about NY.” ||


 * Geosphere**
 * **Site Name** || The World’s Largest Dinosaurs ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://www.amnh.org/education/school_groups/exhibition.php?id=609 ||
 * **Site Author** || American Museum of Natural History ||
 * **Suggested By** || Julie ||
 * **Description** || “A site for a museum exhibition that features cutting-edge research on sauropods, the most massive animals that ever walked the Earth. Explore new insights into how their colossal bodies functioned, and examine life-sized bones, muscles, internal organs, and more to discover the amazing anatomy of these massive creatures. The site contains an educator’s guide providing information about these dinosaurs.” ||


 * Space**
 * **Site Name** || Star Life Cycle ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html ||
 * **Site Author** || University of Utah ||
 * **Suggested By** || Anthony Feig ||
 * **Description** || “Some stars are just beginning to form in nebulae, others are enjoying middle age along the main sequence, and some have begun to die. The life cycle of a star can be compared to the life cycle of humans. On this site you can find out what stage you would be in if you were a star. An interactive lab is available.” ||


 * **Site Name** || Space School Musical ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/index.cfml ||
 * **Site Author** || Kellee McQuinn ||
 * **Suggested By** || Peter Saricino ||
 * **Description** || “A dancing educational video where you can join Hannah on a trip through the solar system in this ultra-cool edu-tainment “hip-hopera” that is out of this world! Move and groove along with the planets, moons, meteors, comets, asteroids and even some rockin’ scientists as they sing, dance and serve up the freshest facts in the galaxy.” ||


 * **Site Name** || Neave Point and Click Planetarium ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://www.neave.com/planetarium/ ||
 * **Site Author** || Paul Neave ||
 * **Suggested by** || MitchEbert@aol.com ||
 * **Description** || “Point to a star or planet to find all the facts about that particular object. Make it so you can see the sky from any point in the world.” ||


 * General**
 * **Site Name** || The Scale of the Universe ||
 * **Site URL** || @http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347 ||
 * **Site Author** || Cary Huang ||
 * **Suggested by** || Emmanuel James Eagleson ||
 * **Description** || “A visual graphic which uses a scroll bar to progress in scale from quantum foam up to universe expansion. It helps a person understand the true size of the universe while showing where things as large as galaxies and as small as wavelengths belong in relation to size.” ||


 * SECME Resources and Announcements:**

Science and Engineering Fair of Houston website: []
 * Science Fair 2012-2013** Your district Science Fair Coordinator is Cheryl Willis (CWILLIS@houstonisd.org)