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Resources
This page contains links, citations, and contacts
that you can use to study and prepare for your events! If you know of
any useful resources, we'd love to list them here - please send the URL
for websites, bibliographical info for books, or name and contact info
for people (only the name will appear on the website) to Catherine O. (12) or Drew G. (11).
Other resources, including a list of available practice tests (very
useful!), previous year's study notes, and first-hand descriptions of
the events can be found in the resources binder in the Allen-Gates core.
These resources aren’t listed here, and can be very helpful. Ask
Drew or Catherine if you don't know where it is!
General
http://www.soinc.org - Science Olympiad national website
http://www.washingtonscienceolympiad.com - Washington State Science
Olympiad website
http://publishing.wsu.edu/copyright/library_copyright/ - How make
photocopies from library resources without violating copyright (highly
recommended!)
http://www.scioly.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage – SciOly.org is a Science Olympiad community with tutorials
in different events
http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/products/sci_olympiad/sci_olympiad.html - The Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University: offers SciOly practice tests and resources
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html - MIT OpenCourseWare: notes and
reading guides from MIT courses
http://www.bk.org/teachers/ghudson/2007%20Science%20Olympiad/Coaches%20Clinic06%20(D)/index.htm - notes from the 2006 Coaches' Clinic
Specific Events:
Astronomy ~
Boomilever ~
Cell Biology ~ Chemistry Lab ~ Circuit Lab ~
Designer Genes ~
Disease Detective ~
Ecology ~ Entomology
~ Experimental Design ~
Fermi Questions ~
Five Star Science ~
Food Science ~
Forensics ~ Health Science ~
Oceanography ~
Physics Lab ~
Remote Sensing ~
Robot Ramble ~
Rocks and Minerals ~
Scrambler ~
Sounds of Music ~ Wright Stuff
~ Write it / Do it
~ General Science Links
Astronomy
- Focus: Variable Stars
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Boomilever
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Cell Biology
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Chemistry Lab
- Focus: Gases, Nuclear Chemistry
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Circuit Lab
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http://www.soinc.org/events/circuitlab/index.htm - the official
Science Olympiad resource list
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http://www.scioly.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage –
from SciOly.org – Jackpot!
- The 2007 Chimacum test
- http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/products/sci_olympiad/sci_olympiad_misc.html - practice tests with answers
- Resources from 2007, newly compiled by teammates - Dry Cells, Diodes, Electroscopes, Galvanometers, Solar Cells
- Resourcesfrom 2006, compiled by teammates –
Ammeters, Capacitors, EMF, Resistance, SI Units,
Voltage/Current/Power, Electrical Power and Heat/DC circuits
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Designer Genes
- Focus: Molecular Genetics, Biotechnology
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Disease Detective
- Focus: Environmental Quality
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http://www.soinc.org/events/diseasedet/index.htm - the official
Science Olympiad resource list
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http://www.scioly.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage –
from SciOly.org
- http://www.cdc.gov/excite/
- a detailed overview of epidemiology provided by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, which oversees all major outbreak
responses in the US and sponsors the Disease Detectives event. A lot
of questions come straight from CDC material. The sub-pages include
practice tests and problems. This is a great place to start, since
it provides a good overview of epidemiology.
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http://www.cdc.gov/excite/classroom/outbreak/steps.htm - from
the CDC website, the 10 Steps of an Outbreak Investigation. These
come up on at least 50% of tests, and always at the state
competition (at least, the 3 times I’ve done it). MEMORIZE THESE!
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http://www.cdc.gov/excite/library/glossary.htm - an
epidemiological glossary from the CDC. If you memorize these
definitions verbatim, you can’t go wrong since the CDC writes the
tests
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http://www.cdc.gov/epicasestudies - downloadable interactive
outbreak investigations from the CDC. These incredibly helpful
programs present you with an outbreak in which you are the lead
investigator, and asks you what to do. They cover every step of the
investigation, and present you with a ton of information. Each
outbreak takes up to 3 hours to get through, but I thought the
programs were well done and fun!
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http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ - the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report, put out by the CDC. This is a bulletin distributed to
doctors around the country to inform them about current outbreaks.
Outbreaks featured in this bulletin often appear on tests.
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http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/define.htm - a valuable
epidemiology glossary from the University of Alberta. This is the
best resource for instructions on how to calculate various ratios
and measures of risk.
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http://www.cebm.net/study_designs.asp - a page from Oxford
giving the advantages and disadvantages of different types of
studies. I haven’t used this before, but I’ve often gotten
questions asking for this type of information.
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Ecology
- Focus: Forests, Marine Biology/Estuaries
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Entomology
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Experimental Design
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Fermi Questions
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Five Star Science
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Food Science
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Forensics
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Health Science
- Focus: Circulatory, Nervous, and Endocrine Systems
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Oceanography
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Physics Lab
- Focus: Rotational Motion
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Remote Sensing
- Focus: Mars
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Robot Ramble
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Rocks and Minerals
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Scrambler
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Sounds of Music
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Wright Stuff
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Write it / Do it
Non-Event-Specific Links
General Science:
Anatomy:
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www.anatomyatlases.org – Anatomy Atlases has an amazing
collection of various anatomy atlases, many of which are in color
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www.bartleby.com/107 - an online version of Gray’s Anatomy of
the Human Body
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www.innerbody.com – Human Anatomy Online is an interactive site,
organized by different body systems, which has text, graphics, and
animations
Biology:
Chemistry:
Physics:
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