Check out Alden's Weather anytime using the WeatherBug!

Watch this short clip to learn more about the destructive power of hurricanes! (click on Windows Media Player or QuickTime)

Website that accompanies our textbook

Use these cards to help you study: 1. First read through "Terms and Definitions" together a couple of times to review. 2. Next, quiz yourself by just clicking on the term and then guess the definition (or vice versa).

Use this crossword to help you review. You will not recognize a couple of words, but should be able to fit them in logically at the end of the puzzle.

Quiz yourself on concepts such as Phases of Matter and Heat Transfer.

This is the textbook that we will use for the end of the year (May-June)

Click here to access links for projects and/or databases for Current Events

Check out Rube Goldberg's site to help you with your energy tranformation machine assignment.

Click here for more information about Percy Julian. This assignment is due Monday, February 12th.

Click here to go right to Mrs. Geiger's website. This should be all you need to complete the extra credit assignment.

Just for fun- see how many points you can score on this "5th Grade" (yeah right) game about chemistry. It's pretty tough (I got 6200 points the first time I played), but also a good review of many topics from our chemistry unit. Good Luck!

This one's alot of fun- many terms in this game will pop up on your unit test. Other terms are review from 6th grade when you first learned about matter, so it is a good review for the NYS exam in science too.

Would you prefer to learn about science through music? Click here to listen to songs about various topics (requires quicktime). Great fun, but trust me, don't ask Mrs. Fisher to sing to you. Not pretty!

Test your swing in this virtual reaction time experiment. Can you get a homerun?

Find equal values by playing the classic game, "Concentration."

Think you're a conversion pro? Are you able to convert in your head? Try these games on for size (it's a humbling experience!)

Click here if you need to do additional research for your Biomes Project.

On this site, you will find temperature and rainfall ranges for the major biomes, as well as some interesting information for the water biomes. But you do have to skim through the reading a bit, so do not get frustrated.

This is a great site for your research. It contains alot of information and it is very student friendly! Most of the information you need should be found here.

Easy to read, with nice pictures.