Our great school library with the subscription to almost
ALL magazines and newspapers through the LAUSD EBSCO subscription
("digital
library" in the LAUSD.net website). Access is available only
on campus.
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/instruct/itb/libserv/digital_library.html
My personal favorite magazine - all of the articles are given
with the
scientific evidence.
Articles are not too long, and all mention the original
publication in a
quote.
You can get access to all the full-text articles using
my account!!!
So, in order to log in - type my email address,
mxd0543@lausd.net, and my pasword -
'Kennedy'. Enjoy!
http://www.sciencenews.org/
Very good source - usually gives links to the original
publications, lists related articles you can learn from or choose
from. Sometimes, though, written without describing any concrete
evidence, so watch out for those.
Science Daily
Just Subscribed to this Magazine. You can log in with
michalkreiselman, password: Kennedy
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/
For the Astronomy Fans: Download this PDF book and get view of
what is going
to be seen on each day of 2006. it looks very interesting, and
practical for
viewers.
http://www.universetoday.com/365days.pdf
Popular Science: A cute magazine, but beware from using articles
that do not
mention the experiments leading to their conclusions!
http://www.popsci.com/popsci
Why Files: A teen-oriented on-line science magazine. Enjoy!
http://whyfiles.org/
How Stuff Works: a great resources for explaining concepts as
background or
for images for projects. Not for a science news article (does not
mention
experimental data).
http://home.howstuffworks.com/
LookSmart - Pervious students found several articles here. Note,
though,
that the article you choose is not too old.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/page?sb=articles_guide_medical&tb=art
National Wildlife Federation - a source for articles about
environmental
issues.
http://www.nwf.org
News in Science from abc.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/
ActionBioScience is a rich souce for debatable topics with a
wealth of
interviews and articles. Usually NOT suitable for the
"Science News"
project, since it does not describe experiments with enough
details.
Interesting reading - check it out!
http://www.actionbioscience.org/
Science World Magazine
http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/
NOVA's Science Now, a new website for recent science in all
fields. Didn't
explore it much but it looks very interesting and well presented.
Comments?
http://www.teacherweb.com/CA/Kennedy/Kreiselman/photo3.stm
ABC News - Technology
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/?technology=true
New York Times - Science
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
Life Science - A new one for me, but seems to be recommended by
teachers and
librarians alike.
http://www.livescience.com/
Discover: Great articles - change each month, always intruiguing!
http://www.discover.com/web-exclusives/
A fun site, but I can't recommend or not-recommend it. Just try
it out. Does
NOT seem to be helpful for the science news report!
http://www.livescience.com/
NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns
Sciencedaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
HOME TECHNOLOGY - EVOLUTION of Home Applicances - VERY CUTE
Interactive
animation!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/techslider.html
PLOS is an online journal for original science publications. Not
suitable (too hard) for the usual "Science News" assignment, but
good to know if you are looking for original work.
http://www.plos.org/
BIOLOGY LETTERS is a peer-reviewed open access scientific
journal. This means all the articles published are free online
for anyone to download . The journal focuses on short articles
about cutting-edge biology research.
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/
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