Great Science Texts

Beyond the databases....
As we ventured onto the web to search for some exemplary texts related to science specifically, we found many great ones to use. Here's just a few we'd like to share:

Ready, Unplug, Drive

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2008/10/ready-unplug-drive-2/

Topic: Efficiency and alternative energies

Flu River

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2009/10/flu-river-2/

Topic: Drug Resistance

Oil Spills in Marine Environment

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2009/10/flu-river-2/

Topic: Environment, Energy Resources, Oil Spill

In conjunction with:

The Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756049

Getting the Dirt on Carbon

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2009/03/getting-the-dirt-on-carbon-2/

Topic: The carbon cycle; elements

Implantable Device propels itself Through bloodstream

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-57383064-247/implantable-device-propels-itself-through-bloodstream/

Topic Electricity and Magnetism

Galileo

http://library.thinkquest.org/29033/history/galileo.htm

Topic: Nature of science, gravity, falling bodies, planetary motion