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Links to outside resources in Chpater Five of the Science Framework.

Link 1 (Page 350)

CDE California Science Standards Web site, Information on the Next Generation Science Standards for California Public Schools [http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssintrod.asp]

Link 2 (Page 364)

Donate Life California, The 5 Steps of Organ Donation & How Tissue Differs [http://www.donatelifecalifornia.org/education/how-donation-works]External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 3 (Page 380)

California Department of Water Resources, California Data Exchange Center [https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow_rain.html] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 4 (Page 385)

California Energy Commission, California Building Climate Zone Areas Map [https://www.energy.ca.gov/media/3560] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 5 (Page 385)

GeologyCafe.com, Average Annual Precipitation in California with Shaded Relief Map [Link Not Available]

Link 6 (Page 389)

Our Water: Sources and Uses [https://californiaeei.org/media/1332/our-water-3.pdf] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 7 (Page 392)

PhET Interactive Simulations, States of Matter: Basics [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/states-of-matter-basics]External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 8 (Page 392)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Geostationary Satellite Server, Western U.S. Water Vapor [http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browsw3.html]External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 9 (Page 393)

EEI Curriculum Unit Precipitation, People, and the Natural World [http://californiaeei.org/framework/sci/Precip]External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 10 (Page 408)

University of Utah, Genetic Science Learning Center, Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction interactive lesson [http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/reproduction/]External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 11 (Page 413)

California Energy Commission, Cal-Adapt, Climate Tools [http://cal-adapt.org/tools/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 12 (Page 421)

EEI Curriculum Unit Energy: It’s Not All the Same to You! [http://californiaeei.org/framework/sci/Energy] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 13 (Page 421)

EEI Curriculum Unit Responding to Environmental Change [http://californiaeei.org/curriculum/unit?unitid=48] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 14 (Page 427)

WestEd, Making Sense of Science, Free Teacher Resources [Link Not Available]

Link 15 (Page 470)

USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Early Warning System for NOAA/USGS Demonstration Flash-Flood and Debris-Flow [https://landslides.usgs.gov/hazards/warningsys.php] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 16 (Page 482)

PhET Interactive Simulations, Forces and Motion: Basics [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/forces-and-motion-basics] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 17 (Page 483)

Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool [https://physlets.org/tracker/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 18 (Page 492)

NASA SpacePlace, online interactive simulation of Newton's cannon [https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/how-orbits-work/en/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 19 (Page 494)

PhET Interactive Simulations, Gravity Force Lab [https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/gravity-force-lab/latest/gravity-force-lab_en.html] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 20 (Page 494)

Test Tube Games, Gravity Simulator [Link Not Available]

Link 21 (Page 495)

GRACE Watches Earth's Water [https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/earth-and-climate/grace-tracking-water-from-space] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 22 (Page 505)

USGS School Yard Geology, GeoSleuth Schoolyard Lesson [Link Not Available]

Link 23 (Page 511)

Weed to Wonder, Domestication [http://new.weedtowonder.org/domestication.html] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 24 (Page 511)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BioInteractive Video, Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn [http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/popped-secret-mysterious-origin-corn] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 25 (Page 514)

Part Two: Evolution of the Mutants" from HIV: Evolving Menace, from the NSTA Publication Virus and the Whale: Exploring Evolution in Creatures Small and Large [Link Not Available]

Link 26 (Page 521)

NASA Earth Observatory, Global Maps, animation of Net Primary Productivity [https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/view.php?d1=MOD17A2_M_PSN] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 27 (Page 530)

Eighth graders visit the Shark Lab at CSU Long Beach and learn about shark tagging as it relates to sound waves and radio waves [https://youtu.be/CajgBDBOkLk] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 28 (Page 531)

PhET Interactive Simulations, Bending Light [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/bending-light] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 29 (Page 535)

Article titled CSULB Shark Lab study: young great whites surviving fishing nets [http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20130821/csulb-shark-lab-study-young-great-whites-surviving-fishing-nets] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 30 (Page 535)

13 young great white sharks spotted off Huntington Beach [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-great-white-sharks-huntington-beach-20150520-story.html] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 31 (Page 535)

Video of great white sharks in the wild: REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted [https://vimeo.com/101165012] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 32 (Page 535)

PhET Interactive Simulations, Sound and Waves simulations [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics/sound-and-waves] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 33 (Page 541)

Space Science Institute, Kinesthetic Astronomy, Sky Time lesson [http://www.spacescience.org/education/extra/kinesthetic_astronomy/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 34 (Page 541)

Climate.gov interactive seasons and ecliptic simulator [https://www.climate.gov/teaching/resources/seasons-and-ecliptic-simulator] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 35 (Page 541)

Annenberg Learner video documentary on education research titled A Private Universe [https://www.learner.org/series/a-private-universe/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 36 (Page 541)

Astronomy Education Review journal article titled Learning about Seasons: A Guide for Teachers and Curriculum Developers [http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2010035] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 37 (Page 548)

Population Reference Bureau 2013 World Population Data Sheet [https://assets.prb.org/pdf13/2013-population-data-sheet_eng.pdf] External link opens in new window or tab.(PDF)

Link 38 (Page 549)

Heat map of Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Consumption of Energy 2014 [https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/state/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 39 (Page 552)

EEI lesson Extinctions in the Present [https://californiaeei.org/media/1327/extinction.pdf] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 40 (Page 552)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BioInteractive, Gorongosa National Park interactive resources [https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/gorongosa-national-park-interactive-map] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 41 (Page 553)

PBS LearningMedia interactive titled Impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific Region [https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pcep15-sci-ess-impacts/impacts-climate-change-pacific-region/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 42 (Page 554)

EEI Curriculum Unit The Greenhouse Effect on Natural Systems [http://californiaeei.org/framework/sci/Greenhouse/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 43 (Page 556)

Climate.gov article titled 100° Days, Past and Future [https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/100%C2%B0-days-past-and-future] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 44 (Page 556)

Article on American Geophysical Union blog titled New paper on landslide-dams and genetic change in fish [http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/11/15/new-paper-on-landslide-dams-and-genetic-change-in-fish/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 45 (Page 556)

A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions [https://earth.nullschool.net/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 46 (Page 556)

California Department of Water Resources, California Data Exchange Center [https://cdec.water.ca.gov/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 47 (Page 556)

California Energy Commission, California Building Climate Zone Areas Map [https://www.energy.ca.gov/media/3560] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 48 (Page 556)

Chapter 20: Geographic Variability in Growth of Forest Trees from the publication Tree Growth [https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/32866] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 49 (Page 556)

Seattle Times article titled State, tribal officials keep watch on mudslide’s effect on fish [https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/state-tribal-officials-keep-watch-on-mudslidersquos-effect-on-fish/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 50 (Page 557)

Exploratorium, Science Snacks projects, Gas Model [https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/gas-model] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 51 (Page 557)

Ripple tank simulation [http://www.falstad.com/ripple/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 52 (Page 557)

Journal article in BMC Evolutionary Biology titled Life habits, hox genes, and affinities of a 311 million-year-old holometabolan larva [http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0428-8] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 53 (Page 557)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BioInteractive video, "The Origin of Species: The Beak of the Finch [http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/origin-species-beak-finch] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 54 (Page 557)

InquireBotany.org lesson titled Can you see the difference between wind pollinated and insect pollinated flowers? [Link Not Available]

Link 55 (Page 557)

University of California Museum of Paleontology, Clipbirds bird beak activity [http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/lessons/clipbirds/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 56 (Page 557)

Wikimedia Commons image, Anatomy and physiology of animals Various vertebrate limbs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomy_and_physiology_of_animals_Various_vertebrate_limbs.jpg] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 57 (Page 558)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America journal article titled Landslide-dammed paleolake perturbs marine sedimentation and drives genetic change in anadromous fish [http://www.pnas.org/content/108/47/18905] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 58 (Page 558)

Chapter 9: The Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) Boundary from the publication Contextos geológicos españoles [http://wzar.unizar.es/perso/emolina/pdf/MelendezMolina2008chapter9IGME.pdf] External link opens in new window or tab. (PDF)

Link 59 (Page 558)

U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 630 titled Yield of Even-Aged Stands of Ponderosa Pine [https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/CAT86200625] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 60 (Page 558)

NASA, Chapter 4: Angle of Light Rays and Surface Distribution: A Structured-Inquiry Activity from the publication Meteorology Activities for Grades 5-9 [https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/pdf/245895main_MeteorologyTeacherRes-Ch4.r3.pdf] External link opens in new window or tab. (PDF)

Link 61 (Page 558)

Earth Observatory, All Dry on the Western Front images and description [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82910] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 62 (Page 558)

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) homepage [http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 63 (Page 558)

Los Angeles Times article titled Dinosaurs were in Decline Long before the Chicxulub Asteroid Finished Them off [http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaur-decline-before-asteroid-20160418-story.html] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 64 (Page 558)

Next Generation Science Standards, Appendix F: Science and Engineering Practices in the NGSS [https://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/Appendix%20F%20%20Science%20and%20Engineering%20Practices%20in%20the%20NGSS%20-%20FINAL%20060513.pdf] External link opens in new window or tab.(PDF)

Link 65 (Page 558)

Wikimedia Commons image, Eight Hox genes of D. melanogaster (fruitfly) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxgenesoffruitfly.svg] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 66 (Page 558)

Historic Pittsburgh, A view of a graph showing fifteen years of typhoid fever deaths in Pittsburgh and South Side [http://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A715.174433.CP] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 67 (Page 558)

Wikimedia Commons image, Diagram showing physical manifestation of a sound wave through air from a speaker to a human ear [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CPT-sound-physical-manifestation.svg] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 68 (Page 558)

Population Reference Bureau 2013 World Population Data Sheet [https://www.prb.org/resources/2013-world-population-data-sheet/] External link opens in new window or tab. (PDF)

Link 69 (Page 558)

Population Reference Bureau 2016 World Population Data Sheet [https://www.prb.org/resources/2016-world-population-data-sheet/] External link opens in new window or tab. (PDF)

Link 70 (Page 559)

Southwest Climate Change Network, illustration of the Hadley Effect [Link Not Available]

Link 71 (Page 559)

Wikimedia Commons image, Global relationship between latitude vs. mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relationship_between_latitude_vs._temperature_and_precipitation.png] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 72 (Page 559)

U.S. Geological Survey, Inventory of Landslides Triggered by the 1994 Northridge, California Earthquake [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1995/ofr-95-0213/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 73 (Page 559)

U.S. Geological Survey, Snider-Pellegrini Wegener Fossil Map [https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/continents.html] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 74 (Page 559)

Heat map of Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Consumption of Energy 2014 [http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=90&pid=44&aid=8] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 75 (Page 559)

Real time wind map based on surface wind data from the National Digital Forecast Database [http://hint.fm/wind/] External link opens in new window or tab.

Link 76 (Page 559)

New York Times article titled From Fins into Hands: Scientists Discover a Deep Evolutionary Link [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/science/from-fins-into-hands-scientists-discover-a-deep-evolutionary-link.html?_r=1] External link opens in new window or tab.

 

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Last Reviewed: Friday, April 21, 2023