Thursday, December 4, 2008

Here is the list of projects with the links to use for the web evaluation activity. Find your problem and click on the link to evaluate the websites. Each person in the group should use a different evaluation form and a different website.

1. Design a machine for removing oil from penguins.
http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/penguins/index.htm
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Penguins/home.html
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Emperor-penguin
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214752/problems-2.html

2. Design a machine for watering potted plants in a space station.
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/issedukit/en/html/t0302r1.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Life_on_board

3. Design a machine for digging worms out of the sand.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/FEATURE/backyard/wonworm.html
http://www.backyardnature.net/earthwrm.htm
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/earthworm.html


4. Design a machine for cooking marshmallows over a campfire (without cooking your fingers as well).
http://www.ehow.com/video_2367493_roasting-marshmallows-over-campfires.html
http://scoutmaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/neverfail_campf.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshmallow

5. Design a machine for combing the fur on a polar bear.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/faq/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Polar-bear
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/PolarBears/home.html
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/arctic/polar_bear/about_the_bears/characteristics/index.cfm
http://www.gan.ca/animals/bears+of+canada.en.html

6. Design a machine for relaxing highly stressed people.

http://www.studygs.net/stress.htm
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/mentalhealth/stress/167.html
http://www.mtstcil.org/skills/stress-deal-1.html
http://www.lesstress.net/stress-effects-on-the-body.htm

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