Alyssa D. Hedlund

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E-mail me: alyssa.hedlund@cune.org

Personal Information:	I will graduate in December 2010. I am from Lincoln Nebraska and I have two sisters who attend Lincoln Lutheran and one brother who is also here at Concordia University, Nebraska. I will spend my time this summer working for Home Instead Senior Care.
Major	Behavioral Sciences; Psychology; Gerontology
Hobbies	I am the captain of Concordia Women’s golf team , I love the aging population and spending time with family and friends.

Unit One What is Scientce?

Why Study Science - http://iweb.tntech.edu/mcaprio/why_study_science.htm I enjoyed this site because it clearly explained five simple reasons to study science. No matter your program people are able to understand these very logical reasons that can be applicable to any field.

About.com - http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm After yesterdays ample practice, who could still be confused about law and theory. This website gives an explanation of the differences between a theory and a law. This site makes it really simple to understand the differences.

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml - This website breaks down the scientific method into 7 steps. It offers a flow chart for better understanding of the separate steps. It allows you to look into each step separately and more in-depth.

Unit Two

Color

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow - Ok I know....Wikipedia is not always legit, but this site gives a basic overview of information about rainbows. Its review is clear and understandable.

http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/color/shadows/index.html This teachers Lab allows us once again to practice our light and color knowlege.

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/colordeficiency.htm This article goes into more detail about color Blindness and how it affects everday life for those who are inflicted by it.

Unit Three

Kinetic Theory, Gas Laws, and Phases of Matter

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ki/Kinetic_theory_of_g ases Here is a link that explains Kinetic theory, in a way that even kids can understand. It reviews postulates pressure, and temperature.

Unit 4

Phase Changes and Heat Transfer

I am a person who loves to know what other people think of products before I buy. This site is a discussion board that displays how handwarmers work and gives the populations opions of this particular product. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=9619.0

I may be one of the worst cooks ever. Here is a link that not only tells you the correct way to use foil, but also why. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_way_do_you_use_tin_foil_shiny_side_up_or_dull_side_up

This ehow site http://www.ehow.com/how_7436_understand-underwater-pressure.html displays the steps to understand how underwater pressure works while scuba diving.

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee/keep/Mod1/Rules/EnTransfer.htm - This site gives some great examples of everday energy transfers that get the point across. It also tells us how exactly energy transfer works.

Unit 5

Pressure

http://www.wikihow.com/Hold-Your-Breath-for-Long-Periods-of-Time Who does not try to hold their breath as long as possible? This like gives you the steps that can improve the length of time you can hold your breath.

http://aboutfacts.net/Science2.htm This site looks at the detaile process of Liquid Breathing. It also explains the benifits of liquid breathing on premature infants.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/water.htm This site, How stuff works, gives a detail explination of how water towers work!

Unit 6

Mass, Density, Weight, Buoyancy, Etc.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/
It is a really cool interactive site that allowes you to learn while being hands on.Allows you to enter your weight and then will tell you what you approximately weigh on other planets and moons.

The Web site, http://www.physics.ucla.edu/k-6connection/Mass,w,d.htm gives not only definitions of mass, density and weight but also explinations and tools to measure with them.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-buoyancy.htm this site clearly states what is Buoyancy. It also has a discussion board, in which you can view others people's opionions of the article.

Unit Seven

Science and Religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science gives the different perspectives of the relationship between religion and science. I like how this website looks at the intergration of other religions and history as well.
http://www.nwcreation.net/ageyoung.html is a website where perspectives of young earth creationists are collected. The site includes evidence and articles. It's theme verse is Genesis 1:5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day. (Exodus 20:11, 31:17)

Unit Eight

Matter Classification

This link came up with hundreds of oxymorons, beyond those mentioned in class. http://thinks.com/words/oxymorons.htm

http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_mixture.html - this website provides and explains mixtures in a simple way to understand. Solutions in relationshipp to mixtures are also displayed. The displayed mixtures look easy to prepare and fun for kids of any age.