Subsystems and Variables Links
Subsystems and Variables Links
Lesson 1: Investigating Systems and Interactions
Lesson 2: Reviewing Interactions and Systems
Lesson 3: Subsystems and Energy
Lesson 4: "Inventing" the Subsystem Concept
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/LeversandPulleys/index.html Use the activity to identify an entire system and see how each subsystem affects the outcome of the entire system. (Needs to have Shockwave installed.)
http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/gallery.htm Examine images of "Rube Goldberg" machines. These machines depict one system with a number of subsystems. The machines are typical of old cartoons.
Lesson 5: Electric Circuit Puzzles
Lesson 6: Producing Sounds
Lesson 7: Colored Liquids
Lesson 8: "Inventing" the Solutions Concept
Lesson 9: Salt Solutions
Lesson 10: Separating Mixtures
Lesson 11: Colored Solutions
Lesson 12: Properties of Butyl Stearate and Water
http://www.charfac.umn.edu/MMS/ProjectMicro/Explorations/Contents.html Multiple links are provided to magnified images which show the minute parts of every day objects like pencils, leaves, and teeth.
Lesson 13: Liquid and Solid Butyl Stearate
http://iknowthat.school.aol.com/AOLAtSchool/matter/science_desk.html Use this interactive simulation to show how water changes from liquid to gas to liquid to solid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/changing_state_fs.shtml Allows students to change a block of ice into liquid, solid, and gas then observe the changes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/gases_fs.shtml Students can see how matter changes and observe the changes to see that the amount of material stays the same.
Lesson 14: Temperatures of Water and Ice Systems
Lesson 15: "Inventing" Histograms
http://www.venturaes.com/tools/histogram.html Use this site to help create a histogram online.
Lesson 16: Experimenting with the Whirly Bird
Lesson 17: "Inventing" Variables
Lesson 18: Whirly Bird Variables
Lesson 19: Controlling Variables
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/coaster.html Create a roller coaster with different hills, climbs, and loops. You'll receive a fun rating and a safety rating that will tell you the effects of each of the variables you choose.
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Cannon/index.html Use this cannon simulator to control different variables that would affect objects shot out of a cannon.
Lesson 20: Temperature Differences Outdoors
Lesson 21: Investigating Variables in Mineral Samples
Lesson 22: Atmoshperic Variables
Lesson 23: Solids, Liquids, Gases
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