These are links for panel topic presentations in Part 2 of Advanced 1. They are suggested by other students as a starting point for your research. Updated January 2012.
Characteristics of Animal Intelligence
- A website full of stories about clever animals called animalintelligence.org.
- Discover Magazine‘s animal intelligence page
- National Geographic‘s animal intelligence page
Living Longer
- Animation of Canadian Age Pyramid from Statistics Canada (Flash)
- Animation of Quebec Age Pyramid from Statistics Canada (Flash)
- Life Expectency Calculator
- The New England Centanarian Study from Boston University
Global Warming
- Canadian Government Climate Change page
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Change page
- David Suzuki Foundation Climate Change page
- An Inconvenient Truth website
- The Climate Project.Org
- Carbon Footprint Calculator
- Article on Abrupt Climate Change
- Article on Geo-Engineering
Nuclear Energy
- Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)
- How CANDU reactors work video from Ontario Power Generation
- Hydro-Quebec’s page about its Gentilly-2 Nuclear Reactor near Trois-Rivières
- World Nuclear Association – explore this website, it has a lot of information
- The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
- Smithsonian Museum of American History Three Mile Island accident
- Statistics about World Nuclear Capacity from the European Nuclear Society
- Website of Nuclear Plant in Krško, Slovenia
Space Exploration
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Russian Federal Space Agency
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
- Chinese National Space Administration
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- European Space Agency
- Live Satellite and Spacecraft Tracking
- Virgin Galactic
