High School Interactive Activities

The Dance of Chance exhibit is a collaboration between the Center for Polymer Studies and the Boston Museum of Science. The exhibit is based on current research pursued by CPS scientists and collaborating scientists around the world. The focus of the exhibit is the emergence of patterns in Nature from physical and biological processes which on the microscopic level appear to be dominated by chance. Each of the kiosks below will lead you into a different facet of the exciting world of patterns in Nature. Many of these patterns are fractals. Fractal forms are ubiquitous in Nature, and especially likely to arise when randomness plays a large role during the pattern's development. The experiments and examples in this exhibit demonstrate some of the many ways that branching patterns arise in Nature from the conflict between random and constraining forces.

A Day on Mercury http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/dom/DayOnMercury.html

Earthquakes http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/

Economic Sectors and International Development http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM288

The Economics of Income: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=NN130

Energy Time Machine http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/time_machine/index.html

Epidemic: The World of Infectious Diseases http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/

Work and Energy: Energy Transformation for a Pendulum http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/energy/pe.html

Fact Challenge: The Universe http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/fc/FactChallenge.html

Interactive Sound Ruler http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/education/decibel/decibel.asp

Newton's Laws: Elephant and Feather - Air Resistance http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/newtlaws/efar.html

Newton's Laws: Elephant and Feather - Free Fall http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/newtlaws/efff.html

Peering Inside the Body http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/bodies_mag/peering.html

NOVA: Reel Timeline 1890-Future http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/timeline.html

Science of Football http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/football/game.shtml

What Is Sound? http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/education/video/sound_vid1.asp#sound

Sheep Brain Dissection: The Anatomy of Memory http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/braindissection/index.html

How Does Electricity Work? http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/braindissection/index.html

Stalking the Mysterious Microbe http://www.microbe.org/

Online Onion Root Tips: Determining time spent in different phases of the cell cycle http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html

This cladogram shows a few important groups of species in the Tree of Life. (There are many more known groups—and possibly millions more species yet to be discovered.) http://ology.amnh.org/biodiversity/treeoflife/pages/cladogram.html

Two Forks Idaho: A Medical Science Mystery http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/twoforks/index.htm

Prehistoric Life Redesign http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/redesign.shtml

Wildfire Simulator http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fire/simulation.html

You and Your Skin http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/skindeep/yourskin/yourskin.html

You Must Be Hearing Things http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/test/audill.htm

Berkeley Interactivities http://iu.berkeley.edu/DLMindex/science

Foreign Language Lessons

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes http://www.clta.net/lessons/

English/Spanish Translation Games http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/spanish/

LinguaWeb http://www.linguaweb.ndirect.co.uk/pages/whichlan.htm

CyberSafety

NetSmartz Teens Workshop http://www.netsmartz.org/netteens.htm