Maths and Stats by Email | Wrong science, Pie charts

Maths and Stats by Email | Wrong science, Pie charts: "Is science ever wrong?  
   
Science is a well-established way of testing ideas. Scientists have an idea, and then run an experiment to test it. Then they look at the result, to see if they correctly predicted what happened. In many fields of science, including medical science where consequences can be harmful, what happens is so complex it’s impossible to observe everything. To help make sense of it all, scientists use statistics."

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Science by Email | Meteor over Russia, Skipping stones

Science by Email | Meteor over Russia, Skipping stones: "Falling from the sky  
   
A meteor caused quite a stir near Chelyabinsk in central Russia last week. While countless tiny meteors fly across Earth’s sky every day, this particular ‘shooting star’ was much more spectacular – video footage of the event shows a fireball streaking across the sky before exploding."

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Science by Email | Meteor over Russia, Skipping stones

Science by Email | Meteor over Russia, Skipping stones: "Falling from the sky  
   
A meteor caused quite a stir near Chelyabinsk in central Russia last week. While countless tiny meteors fly across Earth’s sky every day, this particular ‘shooting star’ was much more spectacular – video footage of the event shows a fireball streaking across the sky before exploding."

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NASA - LED Lights Used in Plant Growth Experiments for Deep Space Missions

NASA - LED Lights Used in Plant Growth Experiments for Deep Space Missions:

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Plant Growth Experiments

Plant Growth Experiments:

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Gravity and Light - how do they affect plants?

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Comet Pan-STAARS (C/2011 L4) | Bob's Spaces

Comet Pan-STAARS (C/2011 L4) | Bob's Spaces: "This coming spring (northern hemisphere) or autumn (southern hemisphere) we have a chance for viewing the first of two comets, Pan-STARRS (C/2011 L4), currently predicted to become naked-eye visible this year. Both comets could possibly reach 0 magnitude or brighter."

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Home Page

Home Page:  Amber Paasch is studying a type of moss that is mostly female.  She is learning about how it can reproduce without any males.  She will be mentoring Nottingham's Planting Science Team #10. Welcome!

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Stephen R. Downie - Homepage

Stephen R. Downie - Homepage  Rhiannon Peery is working on research with the carrot family. "My research focusses on the molecular evolution of plants, specifically members of the carrot family. I use DNA to understand the relationships among members of the family and to understand mechanisms of evolution at the DNA level."  She will be mentoring Nottingham's Planting Science Team #1.
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Goring Lab Homepage

Goring Lab Homepage:  Dr. Emily Indriolo is interested in researching plant pollen and pistil interactions at the cellular level.  She will be mentoring Nottingham's Planting Science Team #9.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University:
Dr. Christina Russin is interested in the types of cells that plants have and what those cells do! She will be mentoring Nottingham's Planting Science Team #7.
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University of the Virgin Islands

University of the Virgin Islands:  Alice Stanford will be mentoring Nottingham's Planting Science Team #8! She is currently studying the population genetics of rare Virgin Islands plants.

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Welcome to the University of Delaware

Welcome to the University of Delaware:  Dr. Nicole Dinofrio of the University of Delaware will be mentoring Nottingham's Planting Science Team #4 - the Garden Gnomes.  She studies a particularly devastating fungus that attacks rice - it kills rice in huge quantities - enough to feed 60 million people a year.  It also attacks other important grains.

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Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab

Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab:  Planting Science Mentor Dr. Kevin Ong will be working with Nottingham's Planting Science Team #5 - the Greenie Beanies.  Dr. Ong specializes in plant diseases!

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PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship

PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship:  Mentor Brittany Johnson will be working with Nottingham's Planting Science Team #2 - she is interested in learning how toxic metals are absorbed by growing plants and how the plants' growth will be affected. Welcome!

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Amanda Fisher

Amanda Fisher:

Amanda is the Scientist mentor for Nottingham's Planting Science Team #3 - The Fertilizing Ferrets.  

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

In a general sense my research explores the evolutionary history of plant taxa.

• How are species related to one another?
• Why do some plant lineages successfully evolve into hundreds of species while other lineages have only a few species?
• When did speciation occur and where did it happen?
• Why do some plant distributions contain large gaps?

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Thinking and Working Like a Scientist :: PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship

Thinking and Working Like a Scientist :: PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship:

Ok, teams! As we start our Planting Science projects, each of you are expected to read and become familiar with all the Planting Science resources:

• Expectations for Completed Research
• Investigating Plants Safely (download the .pdf)
• Thinking and Working Like a Scientist
• Keeping a Research Journal
• Designing Experiments
• Collecting Data
• Guide to Using a Spreadsheet
• Making Meaningful Graphs

A big part of your success with this project depends on a well designed experiment, collaboration with your team and regular communication with your mentor.

Happy Researching! ~ Mrs. Buzzell

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Evolution!

Here's another fun game that models evolution and how competition for food, and enough living space  works! Check it out and let me know what you think! Evolution!:

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Science by Email | Science and society, Drying herbs

Science by Email | Science and society, Drying herbs: "
Science can clearly help improve people’s lives. Yet in an ever changing society, finding efficient ways to help the most people can be challenging.

Research organisations such as CSIRO provide answers to a wide variety of questions. However, to make a real difference in people’s lives, researchers need to work with non-scientific groups who connect with different parts of the community."

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Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia - Hundreds of Injuries Reported - NYTimes.com

Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia - Hundreds of Injuries Reported - NYTimes.com: "Debris and a Boom, Likely From a Meteor, Hit Siberia"

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PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship

PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship:  We will be adding our teams soon! Return your permission slip asap.  If your group isn't sure what type of experiment you want to try, look through the project gallery!



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Punnett's Square » History

Punnett's Square » History:



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NOVA scienceNOW | PBS

NOVA scienceNOW | PBS:  Take a look inside Einstein's brain, check out the "Can I Eat That?" article and more!  Science Now has all sorts of intriguing content!  Learn about the neuroscience of food - what makes a Thanksgiving turkey savory? Why do we cook our food?

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BBC - Science & Nature

BBC - Science & Nature:  If your homework is done and you want to check out some awesome photos, videos, podcasts and science news, check out this website!

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Maths and Stats by Email | Correlating heart rates

Maths and Stats by Email | Correlating heart rates: "Have you ever measured your heart rate? Your heart rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute.
When you’re exercising, your muscles need more energy. To get more energy, oxygen is needed from the blood, so your heart rate increases to pump more blood. Regular exercise can improve your heart strength, so it’s more efficient and doesn’t need to beat so often when you’re not exercising. But fitness isn’t the only thing that can affect your heart rate.

The lowest recorded resting heart rate is 27 beats per minute. This Guinness World Record was set by Martin Brady in 2005 in the United Kingdom (Guinness World Records 2013). Most people’s heart rates are a lot higher – but there’s a lot of variation. The following table shows some information about heart rates – 90% of people have a heart rate faster than the ‘slowest 10%’ number, and only 10% have a heart rate faster than the ‘fastest 10%’ number."

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Physics Project Ideas

Physics Project Ideas:  Here are two physics projects that you might enjoy!  Also, check out Science Buddies Newsletter - there are more project ideas and a link to a national science competition where you could win $25,000!

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Bioman Science Games - free and fun!

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Snurfle Meiosis and Genetics

Snurfle Meiosis and Genetics:  Snurfles are cute and they will show you how meiosis works! This is also available as an ipad app, though some of the click and drag functions were annoyingly slow.  You can play this version on your PC!

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Meiosis: Introduction

Meiosis: Introduction:  Here is another meiosis animation; this one is from Pearson - you can take a quick quiz when you finish!

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Meiosis Tutorial

Meiosis Tutorial:  Here's a tutorial that you can work through and then try taking the 10 question quiz to see how well you understand how meiosis works!

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Meiosis: An Interactive Animation

Meiosis: An Interactive Animation:  Check out Cells Alive to watch an interactive animation of how meiosis works!

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Engineering: The route to problem-solving | Science News for Kids

Engineering: The route to problem-solving | Science News for Kids:

Young researchers learn how math and science are used in the real world, from protecting eggs to delivering tap water

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Apps for Students | Dyscalculia & Math Difficulties - NCLD

Apps for Students | Dyscalculia & Math Difficulties - NCLD: "Ever-evolving mobile technologies offer hope to students who have a learning disability like dyscalculia or dyslexia. "  These apps include graphing calculators and other apps that can also be used in science.



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Science by Email | Lost king found, Sea foam

Science by Email | Lost king found, Sea foam: "News: Royal grave – no parking  
   
The graves of kings and emperors: pyramids in Egypt, terracotta armies in China and ... a car park in England? A team from the University of Leicester announced they discovered the remains of King Richard III under a council car park.
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PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship

PlantingScience.org :: fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship:  Check out some of the cool student projects that have been done in the past!  You can look in the gallery and look at what last year's students did for experiments.  Be sure to check out some of the high school projects as well.

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HHMI News: HHMI Debuts EarthViewer App for iPad : App Explores 4.5 Billion Years of Geological Evolution

HHMI News: HHMI Debuts EarthViewer App for iPad : App Explores 4.5 Billion Years of Geological Evolution:  If you are looking for a cool new app for your iPad, check out HHMI's Geological Evolution app!



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Feline Genetics

Feline Genetics:  More on dominant and recessive traits in cats!

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Feline Genetics

Feline Genetics:  More on dominant and recessive traits in cats!

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Eye Color in Oriental Shorthairs (and other cats)

Eye Color in Oriental Shorthairs (and other cats): "Eye Color in Oriental Shorthairs (and other cats)

What's green and what's not?  What makes a cat's eyes green in the first place?" This and other questions about eye color and genetics are answered here! Plus there are some great photos of some very cool cats!
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Tanzania's Albinos Face Constant Threat Of Attack : NPR

Tanzania's Albinos Face Constant Threat Of Attack : NPR: "Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world — nearly 1 in every 1,400 people. That compares to about 1 in 20,000 worldwide.  There appears to be at least a couple reasons for this phenomenon. First, there is the "founders effect." Scientists believe Tanzania and East Africa may be the birthplace of the genetic mutation that creates albinism."



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Science by Email | Drugs in sport, Polarisation

Science by Email | Drugs in sport, Polarisation: "News: Detecting doping  
   
Recent interviews with cyclist Lance Armstrong made headlines around the world. He admitted to the use of performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France. Scientists have overcome many hurdles to develop the drug testing that underpins this revelation."

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