IAPS: Weblinks for Teachers
Generally Helpful Sites
Submitting data for IAPS activities: Some IAPS activities provide the opportunity for students in classrooms across the country to compare their data with each other. Click on the appropriate link to submit your students' data.
Shown below are several sites that relate to Issues & Physical Science (IAPS). Some provide background information to supplement the information in the student book, others provide links to supplemental information and articles you may choose to use with students.
Unit A: Studying Materials Scientifically
Unit B: The Chemistry of Materials
Unit C: Water
Unit D: Energy
IAPS Issues in the News
Below is a list of newspaper articles and websites that link current events to issues explored in IAPS. Use these with your students to foster discussion about current science issues.
Unit A - Studying Materials Scientifically
Visit the Green Cleaning Network to explore resources and discussions about ways to clean that minimize impact on the environment and human health.
Professional cleaning with a green attitude
Environmentally friendly cleaning products erase grime but let environment shine
Unit B – The Chemistry of Materials
The chemistry of beauty products is going green
How green is your computer?
Unit C – Water
Bottled water versus tap: Which is safer to drink?
Unit D – Energy
Green building methods save energy, environment
Neighbors compete in Energy Smack down
US wind energy adds 1,400MW of capacity
Unit E – Force and Motion
Human crash test dummies to welcome virtual relatives
Unit A: Studying Materials Scientifically
Activity 4
Hazardous Materials at Home
Reduce and Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste by the US Environmental Protection Agency provides strategies for reducing hazardous materials at home.
Activity 11
Choosing a Cleaner
The Household Products Database provides safety, health, and disposal information for household products. This database is searchable by major category or product name.
Unit B: The Chemistry of Materials
Activity 13
Product Life Cycle
Basic Information: Green Chemistry from The United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Green Chemistry Institute by the American Chemical Society
"Green Chemistry Takes Root" by Elizabeth Weise. USA Today, November 22,
Activity 18
Properties of Plastics
The American Chemistry Council Learning Center
This site offers several resources to help teach about plastics and recycling.Consumer Fact sheet on Copper by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
Activity 27
Reclaiming the Metal
Current Primary and Metal Scrap Prices can be found at
Activity 29
The Green Computer Challenge
Activity 32
Mapping Death
Below are electronic versions of the transparencies that were previously only available in the kit:
Map of the 1849 Cholera Epidemic in London (without data)
Map of the 1849 Cholera Epidemic in London (with data)
Activity 32
Mapping Death
and
Activity 33
John Snow and the Search for Evidence
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, (John Snow, 1855).
John Snow's 1855 book "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" is available at this site sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology in UCLA's School of Public Health. This webpage includes the first 38 pages of the book and provides links to the complete book and to maps and more information on John Snow.
Activity 53
Home Energy Use
The Utility Connection has links to over 2,000 local utility companies.
To find power generating web pages for your area, try an Internet search for "your state or city + power or electricity," or try the web site of your local electric utility company.
Activity 64
Electricity Generation
The Energy Information Administration provides maps of the United States showing power plant locations for individual states.
Tennessee Valley Authority: Reservoirs and Power Plants
This site provides links to all of TVA's power generating plants.California Independent System Operator
At this site the daily forecasted available energy resources and actual demand in the state of California are show in both graph and data table format.New York Power Authority: "Our Facilities"
Bonneville Power Administration
This site provides free videos for teachers in the Northwest.Build a hydropower station using this paper model
Foundation for Water and Energy: "Turning to Hydropower" Includes a "walk through" of a hydroelectric power plant plus a design to make a water powered generator.