What to Learn?

  1. Origin, evolution and composition of the Earth's atmosphere.
  2. Structure of the Earth's atmosphere.
  3. Air pressure.
  4. Weather: types of clouds, cyclones, anticyclnes, wind and precipitations.
  5. The greenhouse effect and the global warming.
  6. The slimming of the ozone layer.
  7. Acid precipitations.

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Air Pressure

Jake's attic - Can implosion.Watch a soda can being crushed by air pressure.

Jake's attic - Balloon in a bottle.See how atmospheric pressure pushes a ballon into a bottle.

Atmospheric Problems

The truth about climate change.A simple and effective way to see how human activity relates to global warming.

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Science Helpdesk is a website meant to help on developing the scientific contents for the Bilingual Project Integrated Curriculum designed by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and the British Council.

This website is currently under construction. This means that (a) you could spot some relevant errors in the rendering of the pages - please use the "Contact" form below to report to the webmaster, (b) that it is not feature complete, and (c) and that some sections are a bit short of contents - expect it to be more or less finished by june 2009.

This website has been designed and developed by Arturo J. Murias, currently working in the I.E.S. "Francisco Salinas" (Salamanca, Spain) as a Science teacher in the Bilingual Project.

Copyright of the contents belong to their authors, mentioned where known. Contents created by this website author can be freely distributed as long as the source is mentioned.

JavaScript code (and so, every animation and visual effect) has been written upon the terrific jQuery library developed by John Resig and the jQuery team.