Web Links
Unit A
Topic A1
MIT has a useful site that celebrates
invention and innovation. There is an especially informative section
called the inventor
of the week .
The
Exploratorium Museum is an excellent interactive Web site with
online exhibits in science, art and human perception.
The Introduction
to technology website provides some insight into the systems approach
and the design process.
Topic A2
Wired
News is a useful information portal for computer technology information.
.
Another news site, Slashdot
, is slightly less technical but equally useful.
The Computer
History Museum is the world's largest and most significant history
museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its
impact on the human experience
Topic A3
The University
of Washington has a descriptive site on innovative transportation
technologies, which gives an overview of a variety of transportation
devices.
SAE
International has an exposition website detailing fuel cell technology.
NASA has a nice animation
of the function of an Internal Combustion Engine.
The HOW
STUFF WORKS website shows an animation of an Internal Combustion
Engine.
The Schatz
Energy Research Centre at Humboldt University has an animation
of a hydrogen fuel cell.
Topic A4
The structure of DNA is shown visually and simply at the National
Health museum .
Another good introduction to DNA is given at the University
of Arizona's Biology Learning Centre.
The National Health Museum also has a good visual on the process
of protein synthesis .
The About
Biotech page at the National Health Museum has some interesting
links about the ethical implications of biotechnology.
The Agricultural
Biotechnology page at the University of Maryland is a guide to
quality agricultural biotechnology information on the Internet.
Unit B
Unit C
Topic
C1
For information
about hazardous household waster, see: The
Recycling Council of Ontario: Household Hazardous Waste Fact Sheet
For information
on the health affects for many popular household-cleaning products,
see National
Institute of Health: Household Products Database
For information
regarding hazard symbol on cleaning products, see: Health
Canada: Stay Safe - An Education Guide to Hazard Symbols
CBC
Marketplace: A toxic brew - an article on the possible effects
of chemicals and household chemicals
Topic
C2
For information
on reading and understanding a Materials Safety Data Sheet, see: Berkeley
Lab: Hazard Information
For information
on air quality in office buildings, see: Canada
Safety Council: Air Quality at the Office
For a list of reading
on indoor air quality, see: Health
Canada: Indoor Air Quality - Tools for Schools Action Kit for Canadian
Schools
An article with
links about the risks of being a firefighter: CBC:
Sinister Side Effects - "You don't get paid to die"
For information
on safety at the workplace, see: Young
Worker Awareness Program
Topic C3
For information
on the environment and plastics from an industry point-of-view, see:
Environment
and Plastics Industry Council of the Canadian Plastics Industry Association
For information
on how plastics are made, see: The
American Plastics Council
To
see how the forest industry is dealing with paper recycling reducing
industry waste, see: Forest
Products Association of Canada: Recycling
Institute
of Paper Science and Technology: Improvements in Pulp Bleaching
Natural
Resources Canada: Toward Chlorine-Free Bleaching
Topic
C4
For facts, resources
and case studies about acid rain, see: Environment
Canada: Acid Rain
An article about
the effects of acid rain with numerous links: CBC
Archives: Acid Rain: Pollution and Politics
For information
about the effects of acid rain on Atlantic
salmon, see: Department
of Fisheries and Oceans
For information
on the effects of salt on ice, see: General
Chemistry Online!: Why does salt melt ice?
For
information on the use of salt to control ice on roads, see: Transportation
Association of Canada: Primer on Road Salt and Snow and Ice Control
Environment
Canada, Road Salts: Reducing the risk of road salts to the environment,
while keeping our roads safe
CBC
News Special Reports: The low down on road salt
Unit
Task
For
information on soil pH and plant nutrients, including tables, see: Alberta
Government - Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
An
article on the salt
tolerance of plants from the Alberta Ministry of Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development
A
teaching unit on the effects
of pollution on plants
An
article on growing plants in the classroom from the University
of Saskatchewan
Unit D
Topic
D1
For information
about healthy eating and diet see: Canada's
Food Guide
For tips (some
of them educator specific) on using Canada's
Healthy Food Guide and the Healthy Eating Scorecard
Useful
Web links: Dietary
Reference Intakes , Vegetarian
Diets , and Comparison
of International Food Guide Pictorial Representations
Topic
D2
For information
on various foods and food processing, see: powerbars,
dietary
fibre, instant
breakfast, refined
and natural flour
See: Report
on Food Consumption in Canada and the Diet-Health-Environment Connection
For a video showing
flour-refining process, see: QuickTime
video link
Topic D3
Use this link to
order Canada's
Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living
To calculate basal
metabolic rate, see : BMR
Calculator
To see results
from a national physical activity survey results, see; Canadian
Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
For information
on Blood Pressure and Health, see: Calgary
Health Region Hypertension and Cholesterol Centre
For information
regarding cigarette smoking and heart disease, see: American
Heart Association
Topic D4
For information
on the effects of caffeine, see: Caffeine
(myths, foods) and Effects
of Caffeine on Body
For information
regarding the effects of soft drink, see; Liquid
Candy
For
information regarding the safety of food additives, see: Additive
Safety and US
Food and Drugs Additive Safety
Topic
D5
For
the Childhood Obesity issue, the following Web links may be useful:
Peel
Regional Health , Health
Canada , CTV
, Canadian
Medical Association Journal and Stats
Canada
For
reports on fad diets, see Ryerson
University , Dietitians
of Canada and
Sunnybrook
and Women's College Health Science's Centre
Unit E
Topic
E1
For some historical
background on the development of gravitation theories, see: NASA
Space Link: Microgravity - Fall Into Mathematics
For some historical
background on Sir Isaac Newton, see the BBC
Historic Figur e s article on Sir Isaa c Newton.
For some historical
background on Henry Cavendish, see the BBC
Historic Figures article on Henry Cavendish.
For an overview
of microgravity and why it is of such interest, see Microgravity
Science Overview.
For some background
on universal gravitation including some animations, see Free-Fall
and Microgravity.
For an interesting
theory that suggests gravity, at least during the early stages of the
universe, was a force that acted to repel, see an article from MIT's
Technology Review.
For drop tower
information, see NASA
Glenn Research Center 2.2 Second Drop Tower.
Topic E2
The book: SPACE
EXPLORATION: FROM TALISMAN OF THE PAST TO GATEWAY FOR THE FUTURE is
available as a download at Space
Exploration. It covers much about space exploration, space history
and how the human body deals with microgravity.
For the web page
of the Office of Biological and Physical Research at NASA, see Space
Research.
For up to date
information related to a human presence in space from the Canadian Space
Agency, see Space
Life Sciences.
From the perspective
of the European Space Agency, see Life
In Space.
For an overview
of the medical effects of space flight, see Mars
Academy.
For more detail
on the original experiment that studied the physiological effects of
simulated microgravity, see Long
Term Bed Rest.
For information
about gender issues related to space flight, see Space
Daily.
Topic E3
For more information
about the importance of growing crystals in space, see Science
at NASA and Conjuring
Crystals.
For recipes for
growing crystals other than the alum crystal recipe in the text, see
Recipes
for Growing Crystals.
For more information
about X-ray crystallography related to space science, see Crystallography
Educational Brief.
For an impressive
display of snowflake photographs, see Snow
Crystals.
For more information
concerning the behaviour of fluids in microgravity, see How
Fluids Behave in Microgravity.
For Canadian Space
Agency interest in fluids in microgravity, see Fluid
Sciences.
For information
related to the International Space Station's Fluid and Combustion Facility,
see FCF
Overview.
For information
related to the six basic crystal structures, see Crystal
Shapes.
Topic E4
For more information
related to medical applications of microgravity research, see Medical
Research.
For the homepage
of the Office of Biological and Physical Research, NASA, see OPBR.
For information
related to spin-offs and technology transfers, see Innovation.
For an overview
of satellite technology, see Types
and Uses of Satellites.
To view current
and past issues of NASA's publication "Spinoff", see Spinoff
Online.
For further information
related to space research and the transfer of technology, see Space
Research and Technology Transfer.
As an example of
Canadian contributions in space technology, namely RADARSAT, see Radarsat.
For an interactive
experience as a virtual astronaut, see The
Virtual Astronaut.
For some educational
material related to a Mars mission, see Mission
to Mars.
Unit
Task
NASA
- A Crewed Mission to Mars
Android
World - Manned Mission to Mars
Headquarters
for the Mars Direct Manned Mars Mission
On
To Mars - Manned Mission to Mars
