Science Website (Extra Credit)

URL: http://www.extremescience.com/index.html

Sponsor The Site: Elizabeth Keller

Site About: This site is about so many things, and has so many things. Some of them are, finding the world record, finding out about animals, you can research about many different types of species and other science/ technology things. This site has so many fun and educating things to learn about, etc.

Positive: This site has almost anything you want to find out about and everyday, they change the home page to different types of videos.

Negative: There isn't really anything negative to this website, to me it sounds really cool and has so many things to search about.

Site Used For: This site can be used for Earth Science, Animal Kingdom, Technology, Space Science, etc.

Recommend: I would recommend this site as really useful for many causes and it is really cool on how everything is set up. Another reason I recommend this for future use is because, it has most likely everything we did in school and it even helps you with other science things that you want to know.

Blog 3 (Current Event)

Scientists find ‘Devil Toad’ fossil

WHO: The discovery, led by paleontologist David Krause at New York's Stony Brook University, was published Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

WHAT: Scientists found a frog the size of a bowling bowl which weighs 10 pounds and is 16 inches long.

WHERE: In Washington. The bones found in Madagascar.

WHEN: On Monday February 18, 2008

WHY: The paleontologists found the frog for a research. That "Devil Toad" is known to have heavy armor and teeth. It lived among the dinosaurs millions of years ago. The scientists, say that it could have taken down some hatching dinosaurs. The name Beelzebub means devil in the Greek language. The continents drifted apart show what is now Madagascar would have been long separated by ocean from South America during Beelzebufo's time. And frogs can't survive long in salt water, it is bad for them.

My Opinion: It is cool on how they found this frog. It is so big and looks weird but it is from so long back so that is good. Now we know what frogs or toads ate during the dinosaur era. I liked this article because there was a lot of information to learn about how those frogs lived there and how they survived in Madagascar.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23225938/

Blog 2 (Class Response)

What is matter? Well, matter is what we live under and our surroundings. Matter is what the whole world is made up of. Matter is anything that has mass and volume. The general properties of matter are mass, weight, volume, and density. General properties describe how all matter are the same, and specific properties describe the differences among forms of matter. Some examples of recognizable matter are, wood, water, salt, clay, glass, gold, plants, animals, even a piece of the moon. Through your four senses; smell, sight, taste, and touch, your familiar with matter. Oxygen, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and air are some kinds of matter that can not easily be recognized. Properties of matter describe color, odor, size, shape, texture, and hardness. Specific properties are not hard to tell, for example, it is not hard to tell a red apple form a green apple, or a smooth rock from a rough rock. In matter, weight is a general property. Weight is never constant, it always changes depending on where you are. For example, if you try to carry someone on the Earth and can't, then when you go on the moon, you will be able to. Since matter is an everyday thing, then everyone feels, sees, tastes, and smells everyday even if they are not knowing that. Matter was a really interesting and fun topic to do.