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Biography Website
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A searchable database of over 20,000 personalities both contemporary and historic.
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If you have a classroom web site with a reference section for students to use in the classroom or from home, this is a must for studying the personalities behind the science.
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A&E Network
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Food Finder
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A searchable database of nutritional characteristics of individual meals from the leading fast food restaraunts. You enter the restaurant and the mean and you get the data. [13]
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As students are learning about their daily requirements of nutrients and calories, ask them to use the data on this site to plan a daily menu of fast food, but keeping at all their daily requirements. The data can be imported into a spreadsheet to provide for a computer skills activity.
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Olen Publishing
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National Earthquake Information Center
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This is a forms managed database of earthquakes dating back to 2550 B.C. (hard to believe). [22]
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There are a variety of reports in this site that students can mimport into a spreadsheet and plot locations and frequency distributions.
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U.S. Geological Survey
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Physical Reference Data
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This is a rich set of databases (many searchable) of standard data on physics. Some of the services include:
- Physical Constants
- Atomic Spectroscopic Data
- Molecular Spectroscopic Data
- Ionization Data
- X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Data
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This site would be an essential part of a physics classroom web site reference section.
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National Institute of Standards & Technology
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3D Animated Molecules
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 This is a typical clipart site with many images that can be integrated into personal web sites. However, this section, "3D Animated Molecules" might be of special use chemistry teachers to demonstrate various molecular structures. [249]
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Chemistry teachers can use these images published on web pages to demonstrate to students various aspects of molecular structure. Students might also use the images to illustrate their learning.
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IconBazaar
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3D Body Scanner
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Body scanning is a focus of research at Cornell University that uses three-
dimensional visualization technology to create accurate digital models of
the human body, with the goal of enabling cost effective, custom-fit
apparel. This Web site describes the process of capturing a 3D image and how
it can be applied to enhance online shopping. The section called Virtual
Try-On illustrates how "a consumer's body scan is merged with scans of pants
sized for a set of fit models."
Includes Flash media [427]
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Students might be asked to speculate on other products that might be customized by 3D scanning.
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Cornell University
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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
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The largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English language -- now on the Web. Search from over 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
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A science specific dictionary can be a valued resource for any science classroom. If you have a classroom web site, this resource should be an essential part of your reference section. Also, if you construct assignments for your students as web pages, ClassWeb, then this resource can be an invaluable reference for your students as they conduct their work online.
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Harcourt
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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
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The largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English language -- now on the Web. Search from over 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science. [1]
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A science specific dictionary can be a valued resource for any science classroom. If you have a classroom web site, this resource should be an essential part of your reference section. Also, if you construct assignments for your students as web pages, ClassWeb, then this resource can be an invaluable reference for your students as they conduct their work online.
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Harcourt
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AirData
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This is a very powerful database of historic air polution levels that can be accessed by state, county or city. Each report can be converted to TAB or COMMA delimited files for importing into spreadsheet programs. Reports include data on carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, lead, and others. [3]
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Students might use this database to look up particulate levels of the various pollutions (carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, etc.) for the states of the USA, or for the counties of their state. They might then color code the states or counties indicating the varying degrees of particulates and then draw conclusions about the relationships between pollution and land usage. This data can also be imported into a spreadsheet. Refer to the instructions in Landmarks for Schools.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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AirNow
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The goals of the US EPA's AIRNOW ebsite are to: 1) provide real-time air pollution data in an understandable, visual format, 2) provide information about the public health and environmental effects of air pollution, 3) provide the public with information about ways in which they can protect their health, and actions they can take to reduce pollution. [4]
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Perhaps the most fascinating features of this site is a series of animated gifs that illustrate ozone patterns for each day from May 3, 1999 to September 30, 1999. Students might look at these animated maps and study patterns of ozone over a single day, or across the seasons. The images can also be downloaded and used independent of the web site. See Landmarks for Schools instructions for downloading images from the web.
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EPA
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AirPhoto
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The Airphoto stock library and on-line Gallery feature such subjects as: Weather, Agriculture, Environment, Geology, National Parks, Lighthouses, Lewis & Clark, Marine, Aviation, & Junkyards. The geographic coverage is from Alaska and Labrador to Costa Rica and the Lesser Antilles, and everyting between. Some 1500 aerial photographs are posted in the Gallery. [291]
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Valbros Rankers Inc.
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AnimalSearch
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AnimalSearch is a family-safe search engine for animal related web sites. [220]
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Students might be assigned to identify animials that might be ideal pets for specific geographic regions. They would first determine the criteria for selecting the pet for that area and then use AnimalSearch to research the animals.
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Galganov & Associates
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ANSS Catalog Search
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This is a searchable database of earthquakes compiled from the catalogs of a variety of earthquake networks. The quakes registered in the database range from the most recent to 1910. [8]
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Students can use this online database to generate a variety of reports on earthquakes world wide. They might create a report of shutter, quakes less than 2.0 on the richter scale, or reports of on the heavy quakes. The data can easily be imported into a spreadsheet where students can create frequency distribution graphs or scatter plots illustrating the positions of quakes.
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Advanced National Seismic System
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Beetle Science
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As this Web site proclaims, "We live in the age of beetles," and given that
one out of five species of all living things is a beetle, this seems like a
fairly accurate claim. This engaging site, developed at Cornell University,
highlights material related to bugs and beetles in an informative and well-
designed fashion. Visitors will want to start by clicking on the "Species-
Scape" illustration, which symbolically portrays the relative abundances of
various life forms on earth. Clicking on each image (such as an elephant or
an earthworm) will bring up a text box that gives a brief overview of the
species. The "Virtual Beetles" section offers visitors the ability to
manipulate three different beetles, including the Japanese rhinoceros
beetle. Finally, visitors also have the ability to explore the research
laboratories of Professor Quentin Wheeler, an entomologist at Cornell. Flash [424]
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This would be an excellent springboard for a small group project for middle school or high school students doing a project on beetles.
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Cornell University
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Biodiversity: Measuring the Variety of Nature
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Created by researchers at the Natural History Museum in London in response to the 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity, this magnificent site is an Internet learning laboratory for modeling (and thinking about) biodiversity and conservation. [5]
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This site includes a number of world maps that illustrate the degree of biodiversity in different parts of the planet. Geography teachers might use these maps to discuss with students the relationship between geography and life. These images can be downloaded and used independent of the Internet.
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Biogeography & Conservation Lab
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Biology in Motion
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Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience. After years of teaching biology in various colleges and universities, I began developing my own graphics and multimedia, mainly for in-class presentation. [331]
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This site would make an effective supplemental tool for students, or an excellent presentation tool for presenting to the entire class.
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Leif Saul
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CalPhotos
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This UC Berkeley Digital Library Photo Collection includes over 35,000 images of California plants and habitats, animals, and Department of Water natural resources. Browse or search by common or scientific names, by location or subject (natural resources), or even by predominant plant color. [7]
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Teachers might use this web site as a source for images to show students various plants and animals in biology and other life sice classes. Students might also use the images from the site to prepare a photo album of a ficticous trip across the USA. The images can technically be downloaded.
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UC Berkeley
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Centauri Dreams
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Alpha Centauri and other nearby stars seem impossible destinations not just for manned missions but even for robotic probes like Cassini or Galileo. Nonetheless, serious work on propulsion, communications, long-life electronics and spacecraft autonomy continues at NASA, ESA and many other venues, some in academia, some in private industry. [510]
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Paul Gilster
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Chemistry Comes Alive! Sample Movies
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Sample Movies from Chemistry Comes Alive!
The movies on Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs have been carefully produced, edited, and compressed into high quality QuickTime movies. Movies are only available on the Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs, but several samples are provided here. Please note that the movies were designed to play from CD-ROMs. Downloading via the Internet may cause delays. You must have QuickTime 4 or later to play these movies. If you do not have QuickTime, you can download a free copy from Apple Computer. [540]
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Journal of Chemical Education
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Color Landform Atlas of the United States
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An extensive listing of various maps (relief, county, regional, satellite, and historic) for the states of the United States. [440]
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This site can be a huge resources for teachers of geography and science. The images can be includes as WebQuest resources, used on handouts (following fair use constraints).
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Ocean Remote Sensing
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Computational Science Education Reference Desk
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Here at CSERD we are compiling information and materials to help you learn about computational science and incorporate it into your classroom at all levels. [527]
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Shodor Education Foundation, Inc
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Current Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
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This is a data table that displays the present concentrations of Greenhouse Gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc.) and compares them to pre-9industrial concentrations (1860). [278]
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Students might visit this site regularly to record current concentrations, graphing their reading and speculating on the causes of the ups and downs.
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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
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Digital Book Index
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Digital Book Index provides access to more than 80,000 titles records.
It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial
eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing
organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight
in most major disciplinesLiterature, History, Science and the History of
Science, Social Science, Medicine, the Arts, Religion, and various Area
Studies (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Women's Studies), etc. An
extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines,
Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on
Writing & Style Guides that would be hard to surpass anywhere. Library
subscribers to NetLibrary will find most of those eBooks indexed as well.
More than 25,000 titles from public archivesall indexed hereare available
free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Thousands more
contemporary titles, ranging from the Nancy Drew mysteries to Star Trek,
Ernest Hemingway or John Le Carr, are available from many leading
publishers." [449]
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Digital Book Index
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Digital Saskatchewan : Width=(1344)
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Digital Saskatchewan is designed for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students, although its contents are available to the world through the WWW. Teachers may use the resources of Digital Saskatchewan to stimulate interest in Saskatchewan studies and to create presentations and instructional materials for their classrooms. Students can use its resources to illustrate reports, to create multimedia presentations, and to see what other students and teachers throughout the province are doing and learning. [533]
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Tisdale School Division
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Dinosaur Illustrations
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This site's purpose is to help you locate great illustrations of dinosaurs that have been posted on the Internet.
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Teachers can use this site as a source of pictures to use with students study of dinosaurs. Students might use the pictures in creating a picture book about pre-historic life. The images can technically be downloaded from the Net.
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David Goldman
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Ditto.com
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Ditto.com is an image database. You type in a key word, and ditto delivers thumbnail images related to your key word. Ditto also includes the URL of the web site where the picture was found. This is unique among the image databases available on the web and makes it easier to seek permission to use digital images in teaching and for student learning. [238]
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There are many ways that digital images might be used for teaching and learning:
- Teacher prints the digital image to transparency film for presentation to the class via an overhead,
- Teach downloads the image and inserts or pastes it into a handout, worksheet, or study guide for students,
- Students might include an image in their written, web, or multimedia presentation report,
- The teacher might load the image into a graphics program and annotate the image with explanations for use by students, or
- The teacher might give the digital image to the students and ask them to annotate it as a way of expressing their new knowledge.
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ditto.com, Inc.
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Dittrick Medical History Center
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The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the medical past through a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. The Dittrick originated as part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association (est. 1894) and today functions as an interdisciplinary study center within the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. [403]
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Case Western Reserve University
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Earth & Sky
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Earth & Sky is a daily radio program about the science in the world around us. Each week it is heard by over 3.8 million people on over 700 commercial and public radio stations in the U.S. This website includes the full text of "Earth & Sky" programs and Real Audio versions. [10]
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One of the best parts of this site is the archived real audio files of the actual shows. This Radio on Demand feature might be used by science teachers to play either today's show or another other past show each day for your class through a classroom, Internet connected computer.
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Byrd & Block Communications, Inc
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Earth Observatory
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This is a fabulous web site with a vast amount of information and data about our planet. Not only does it contain valuable information, but it allows teachers and students create images and animations based on data comparisons. A highly recommended site and also the winner of the 2002 Webby awards in the category of Science. [305]
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Students can create animations that trace various atmosphic conditions over a series of months and include them in science presentations. This is only the tip of the iceberg for this wonderful web site.
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NASA
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EarthCam
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This free
site is a helpful way to take a peek at literally thousands of places
(including some rather unusual ones) around the world. Visitors will want to
begin by exploring some of the fun cameras set up by the EarthCam group in
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Seattle, Dublin, and Las Vegas. Also featured on
the Web site's home page are the Top Ten Cam Sites, which feature the most
popular Web cams from around the world. [420]
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It can help to set atmosphere in your room when you have a Webcam display up of the place that your are studying showing as students come into the room.
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EarthCam Inc.
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EarthRISE
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EarthRISE is a graphical, easy, and fun to use front end to a large (and growing) database of photos of the Earth from space. [11]
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Geography teachers might ask students to find illustrations of geographical characteristics by searching or browsing this site for space-based pictures of earth formations
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center
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Einstein Archives Online
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This impressive digital archive
features the writings, scholarship, and thoughts of Albert Einstein, one of
the 20th century's greatest scientists. The site allows visitors to view and
browse 3,000 high-quality digitized images of Einstein's writings, ranging
from his travel diaries (many of which are in German) to his published and
unpublished scholarly manuscripts. [423]
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The travel diaries might be used by German classes as a source of information to translate. Notes might be used to enhance the study of contributions by scientists in the area of Physics.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem & California Institute of Technology
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eNature.com Field Guides
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This is a wonderful online database of animals, mostly of North America. It includes birds, butterflies, fishes, mammals, reptiles, and much more. There are simple and more advanced search tools for find animals and the reports include an expandable image, similar species, habitat, and range. [12]
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There are countless uses for the images in this site. One idea might be to ask students to take one of the categories, download the images, and then arrange them on a paper or web page to illustrate their relative evolutionary positions.
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National Audubon Society
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
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The best encyclopedia ever written was published over 90 years ago! And now you can find right here on the web! This 1911 encyclopedia is filled with historical information that is still relevant today. [391]
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1911encylopedia.com
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Environmental Health News: Compiled by Environmental Health Sciences
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www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. EHS publishes 3 websites:
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Environmental Health Sciences
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EuroNews
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Created in 1992 in Lyons, France, EuroNews is a European Broadcasting Union initiative that was started by a group of European public broadcasters interested in providing European viewers with a diverse set of perspectives
of regional and international news. The site will be of interest to anyone with an interest in viewing recent news briefs about a number of important topics of relevance, such as political affairs within the European Union, cultural activities, and technological innovations within various parts of the EU. Visitors can also view a weekly schedule for EuroNews, or elect to view the latest news update from EuroNews. As might be expected, the site may be viewed in a number of languages, including German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. [500]
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EuroNews.Net
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European Butterflies
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Photographer and butterfly enthusiast Mario Maier combined the talent of several European photographers to produce this magnificent European Butterflies Website. Available in English or German, the site offers crystal-clear color images of hundreds of butterfly species, organized by each of seven Families: apilionidae, Pieridae, Danaidae, Libytheidae, Nymphalidae, Satyridae, and Lycaenidae.
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Students can use these images in a game to identify the characteristics that distinguish the different families.
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Mario Maier
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European Space Agency: Mars Express
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Europe reclaims a stake in Mars exploration! The European Space Agency has
launched this informative site in conjunction with the Mars Express mission
which lifted off on June 3, 2003. Before the live Webcast of the craft
arrival in December, 2003, visitors to this well organized site can track
the progress of the spacecraft. You can also learn a lot about early
attempts to explore mars and investigate the possibility of life on Mars.
The European Space Agency also has given the public detailed technical
information on Mars Express and the Beagle 2 Lander that will actually land
on the surface of the red planet. This site is an exciting way for
educators, students and the general public to be actively involved with this
historic event. [416]
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ESA
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FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds
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Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples. Take a look at the types of sounds you can find. [347]
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Comparisonics Corporation
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Free educational web site featuring Foods for better health, quiz and newsletter
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Children need to switch to healty foods in order to avoid heart disease and raised blood pressure. This project looks at the best foods to eat to manage weight and cure common ailments and then identifies the worst foods which have become all to prevelant in our society. Take the challenging quiz to receive your just dessert. [546]
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Steve Feld
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FRF Wave Data
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Open since 1977, the FRF is internationally recognized for its coastal studies. Instruments at the facility constantly record the changing waves, winds, tides, and currents. Central to the facility is a 560-m-long (1840 ft) pier and unique specialized equipment like the CRAB, LARC, and SIS.
The data and charts here reflect readings on wave activity on the Atlantic coast at Duck, North Carolina. The README file explains the data.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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GeneMap\'98
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The Human Genome Project is entering its climactic phase that will result, as early as 2003, in a complete and accurate DNA sequence representing the genetic blueprint and evolutionary history of the human species. Moreover, a "working draft" of this "book of life" may be available as early as 2001 and, in both cases, an index to the chapters and paragraphs will greatly enhance both the completion of the finished product as well as the practical utility of the intermediate results for biomedicine.
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Ask teams of students to research specific Chromosomes and report on their significance to human life, conditions, and potentials for using the knowledge to improve the human life condition.
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NCBI
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Geologic Explorations
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Geologic Explorations allows you to explore a variety of unique geological formations using Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas and digital still imagery. [14]
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Students might be asked to select from images provided from this site, the one(s) that illustrates the geologic formation being covered in class. The QTVR files can also be used by the teacher to illustrate geologic characteristics using a data projector.
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Science Junction/North Carolina State University
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Global Trees Campaign
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Along with increasing concerns about the extinction of different animal
species, there has been increased interest in monitoring the fate of plant
species, particularly those of various trees. Drawing on a partnership
between Flora & Fauna International and the UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre, the Global Trees Campaign Web site serves as an online
conduit for information about endangered tree species. First-time visitors
will want to read the various tree profiles along the right-hand side of the
homepage. Some of the species covered here include the African blackwood,
Honduras rosewood, and the monkey puzzle tree, which grows naturally in
Chile and Argentina. The resources section of the site is also worth a look,
as it contains a database with information on close to 7,300 tree species,
and list of suggested readings -- including several that are available as
PDF files. For those interested in the projects initiated by the Global
Trees Campaign, a section detailing their various initiatives around the
globe is also available for consultation. [433]
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UNEP-World Conservation
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HST: Hubble Space Telescope
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A wealth of data and images from the Hubble Space Telescope archives. [209]
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You can use the images and data in this resource to illustrate astronical phenomenon for your class.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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Human Anatomy
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Links to images from the various anotomical systems of the human body, including: skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, urogenital, and nervous systems. [284]
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The teacher might use these images for lecture, for worksheets, or study guides. The teacher might also develop a series of problems in human anatomy and require students to find, identify, and include the appropriate images from this site to solve the problems.
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Dr. James A. Strauss -- Penn State University Biology Department
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Imaging Everest
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Named for the Surveyor-General of India, Sir George Everest, Mount Everest
is the tallest mountain in the world, and is part of the Himalayan range
within South Asia. This fine collection of images dedicated to this storied
mountain was launched on May 29, 2003 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the ascent to the top of the peak, accomplished by Sir Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay. This online exhibit is part of a larger exhibit that is
currently on display at the International Mountaineering Museum in Nepal.
The images themselves are divided into nine thematic areas, such as The
History of Everest, Tibetan People, Sherpas, and Tenzing and Hillary. [426]
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This site contains a great deal of content and many digital images, both recent and historical that might be used in teacher and student presentations.
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The Royal Geographical Society
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Innovative Lives
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The Lemelson Center's Innovative Lives series inspires young people to explore the interdisciplinary world of invention. By interacting with American inventors and entrepreneurs, middle-school students learn firsthand about history, technology, and science. [294]
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Smithsonian Institution
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Interactive Weather Information Network
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You click the state of interest and can select either a specific location within the state or get an hourly report, state forecast, short term forecast, weather summary, watches, hydro products, and others. [271]
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Students might track weather on an hourly or daily bases in several geographic locations. From their collected data they can draw conclusions about the conditions that control the weather in those locations.
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National Weather Service
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Interactive Weather Information Network
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A variety of images and animations indicating the curren weather conditions around the country. One feature is an animation that illustrates cloud movement across the country over the past six hours. [272]
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Using QuickTime or other video tools, students might splice together many videos available through this site to track a weather pattern across the country.
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The National Weather Service
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Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
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The creative people at the
Internet Archive have also created this wonderful Moving Images Archive
which contains thousands of various educational films, television
commercials, and a number of other visual materials. The best part is that
viewers can add their comments about the films after watching them. Of
course, visitors can perform keyword searches within the Archive or view
lists of the most popular films located here. One rather amusing film is the
social hygiene educational adventure titled Are You Popular? (from 1947),
which shows examples of proper and improper dating etiquette and how to be
courteous to one's parents. [459]
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Internet Archive
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IRIS
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The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.
IRIS programs contribute to scholarly research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, and the verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. [444]
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National Science Foundation
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J-2 Space
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This website features photographs of many of the planets, space craft including Apollo, Shuttle, Mir, and the Internet Space Station projects, and general astronomy archives. [17]
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Ask students to select images from this site and arrange them in a photo album that illustrates a virtual fieldtrip into space. Images can technically be downloaded and used for student work. It is a very good idea to seek permission.
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J-2 -- Jay Jacobson
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Learn and Explore Chemistry
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 Chemistry tutorials starting with the basics, college tutorias with VR applications and Java. Also Chem-4-Kids for basics and a 3D virtual Reality Biological Molecules. [207]
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The 3D section of this resource includes some molecular simulations. Students can use this as a tool for presenting chemical concepts as presentations.
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www.mindQuest.net
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Map-a-Planet
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Access global imagery of the planets and satellites from a variety of missions in an easy to use web interface. Customize and download your own image maps of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other planets and moons. To get started, select a planet or moon from the buttons on the right. If there's more than one dataset to choose from, you'll be presented with a list of available datasets. Finally, choose a level of customization. If you're new to Map-a-Planet, choose the Easy version and click the image map to zoom in on an interesting area! [511]
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NASA
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Marine Institute - Networked Educational Topics
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This website has a rich variety of information and images on topics including geology, oceanography, archeology, fisheries development, shipbuilding, anf fish facts. [18]
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This site would make a good addition to the reference section of your science classroom web site. The images and other resources can be used by teachers in their teaching materials.
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Marine Institute, Newfoundland
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MicrobeLibrary.org
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This site, provided by the American Society for Microbiology,
showcases a searchable database of over 150 images of microbes. The
images, submitted by professional microbiologists, have been
carefully reviewed for their educational quality and are presented in
formats ranging from high-powered microscopic stills to QuickTime
animations and film footage. [215]
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This site contains a wealth of multimedia material that can be used by teachers in their presentation of microbiological concepts and by students in their reports and presentations.
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MicrobeLibrary.org
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MOC Images Suggest Recent Sources of Liquid Water on Mars
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Recently, the press reported that the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had
captured compelling images of gullies and slope failures that might
be associated with the presence of liquid water on Mars. Now you can
see these famous images at Malin Space Science Systems' MOC Website.
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This site and images can be integrated into any study of the solar system and our growing knowledge about our space environment.
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Malin Space Science Systems
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Monthly Averages of Temperature & Precipitation in the Southeastern United States
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You click the state and then receive a data page that gives the average temperature (or precipitation) for each month of each year since 1895. [19]
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Students can import the data into a spreadsheet and plot trends in temperature during each season since 1895.
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South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
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Motion Pictures of the Edison Manufacturing Co.
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Information and MPEG & QuickTime files of early Edison movies, brought to us by The Library of Congress.
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The Library of Congress
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Moving Image Archive
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Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films. [325]
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This resource provide access to a rich archive of movies including old advertisements, propaganda of the '50s, educational files, etc. The clips could be included as multimedia components of lessons or incorporated into digital products by students.
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Internet Archive
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My Community, Our Earth
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* An Earth Science dictionary of over 500 terms
* Printable geologic time scale
* Printable mineral identification chart
* Directory for jobs and careers in Earth Science
* Over 200 satellite images of cities, states, and countries
* New Google maps that have been featured on EarthScope.com and NPR.org
[545]
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Geography.Org
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Nano Imagery Gallery
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This is a very interesting web site featuring archives of pictures of the very small. [20]
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Teachers can use the images from this site as illustrations for class presentations. Students might also use them for various reports or multimedia presentations.
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Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
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National Agriculture Statistics Service -- US Crop Rankings
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This spreadsheet includs arces planted, yield, and price. Moving this data into a spreadsheet and removing some of the columns would leave students with a file of data in which they could install formulas to calculate comparative values of different crops. [21]
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Students might look at this data comparing crops and relative quantities of crops with nutritional needs of people.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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National Geographic Photo of the Day
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 A daily stunning, knock-your-eyes-out photograph from the talented
photographers of National Geographic Magazine. Great for wallpaper. [261]
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These pages can make excellent springboards for short and long term research and discussion projects.
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National Geographic
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NEDI (National Environmental Data Index) Home Page
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The National Environmental Data Index (NEDI) provides direct access to environmental data and information descriptions, and thereby, improves awareness of and facilitates access to data and information holdings. The overall goal of the NEDI is to facilitate the use of the widest possible range of environmental data and information to support our ability to protect human health, safety, and welfare; to maintain and restore ecological integrity; and to sustain economic stability and growth. The NEDI will be a focus for identifying environmental data and information holdings within the United States and ultimately, internationally. [354]
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National Environmental Data Index
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Newton's Castle
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A stimulating journey into the revelations of Sir Isaac Newton. Learn about his discovery of Gravity and Optical Theories. Learn why cars roll uphill, why dogs chase cars and Newton's secret library. [539]
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John F. Kennedy High School
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NOVA | Einstein\
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How would 10 top physiciststwo Nobel Prize winners among themdescribe Einstein's equation to curious non-physicists? Listen online by selecting Play All or choose individual clips below. Listen offline by downloading clips, or subscribe to our podcast. [537]
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PBS/NOVA
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NPR Story Archives
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The National Public Radio web site includes RealAudio files of past programs. You can go directly to the archives of the following specific programs:
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For current events or even explorations in basic social and scientific topics, there a reports on almost any topic, and in audio. Play a report for your class -- on demand.
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NPR
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Ocean Flyby
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A number of downloadable animated tours under the Pacific Ocean based on real data. [25]
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These movie files can be downloaded from the Net and used with your class to illustrate basic concepts of oceanography and geology.
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NASA
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Ocean Planet
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This site includes basic information about the oceans. It also features an impressive relief map of the world including the oceans. [26]
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The relief map on this sight can be downloaded and used by the teacher or students to explore geological characteristics of the ocean floors.
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Smithsonian Institute
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Open Video Project
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While many digital image projects and archives offer a few brief video clips
of historical and other interests, the Open Video Project contains close to
2000 digitized clips and complete short films, and will be of great interest
to those researching visual culture. Sponsored and developed at the
Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library
Science and the University of North Carolina, the project began in 1998 with
approximately 195 video segments. The archive available here provides video
clips from a variety of sources, including quite a few obtained from U.S.
government agencies. The entire archive may be searched by keyword, or
browsed by genre, duration, or thematic collection. There are some rather
compelling files to peruse here, including a collection of classic early
television commercials (including one for Jello), a short silent film titled
2 A.M in the subway, and an educational film titled A is for Atom, produced
by the General Electric Company. [462]
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University of North Carolina
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Paleomap
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The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
This site includes some rather innovative uses of QuickTime VR to produce controllable animations. Very Cool!
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This site can be used by the teacher or for student presentations to illustrate continental shift and its effects on plate tectonics. The animations would be especially usefull for this.
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Christopher R. Scotese
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Periodic Table of Elements
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Yet another periodic table site, but very rich in information. For each element clicked, you receive a picture of some product related to the element and learn about the history of the element, its sources, compounds, properties, uses, cost, and handling. [289]
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You might ask students to pretend that a vein of a specific element has been found in your local. Ask them to use this site learn about the element and then suggest businesses and industries that might be encouraged in the area to take advantage of the new find.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Pics4Learning - Tech4Learning
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Below is a categorized list of images found in the Pics4Learning collection. The number in the parentheses indicates the number of sub-categories for that topic. [503]
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Tech4Learning
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Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
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The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images providing access to about 60% of the still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division, as well as some images found in other units of the Library. [502]
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Library of Congress
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Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)
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At any particular time, the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) is involved in providing visualization products, systems, and expertise to various NASA projects and missions. This page briefly describes our current activities, with links to more information. You can see a listing of series of SVS animations. [363]
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NASA
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SDSS SkyServer DR3
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This website presents data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project to make a map of a large part of the universe. We would like to show you the beauty of the universe, and share with you our excitement as we build the largest map in the history of the world. [531]
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Microsoft
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South Florida Information Access
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One of the US Geological Survey's Ecosystem Programs, the South
Florida Ecosystem Program is an intergovernmental effort "to
reestablish and maintain the ecosystem of south Florida," including
the region's water regime, hydrology, and geochemical and biological
processes. To restore south Florida's ecosystems, the Program relies on the collaboration of over a dozen agencies, and information is
disseminated via SOFIA, the South Florida Information Access Website. [213]
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This data could be used as an in depth study of ecosystems. South Florida would certainly be a great area to study with their rich but fragile bio system.
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USGS
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Southeast Monthly Climate Averages, 1895-2000
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This site lists data on average monthly temperature and precipitation for southeastern state for each month from 1895 to 2000. [270]
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Math students can graph the data to look for weather trends over the past 100 years. Science students can also use the data to study weather patterns. Social studies students might take this data and compare with economic data to look for correlations.
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Southeast Regional Climate Center
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SpaceWeather.com
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Space weather forecasts that appear on this site are based in part on data from NASA and NOAA satellites and ground-monitoring stations. Predictions and explanations are formulated by Dr. Tony Phillips; they are not official statements of any government organ or guarantees of space weather activity. [296]
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Bishop Web Works
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SSEC -- Real Time Data
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The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is a global leader in the analysis and distribution of geostationary satellite data. This page presents browse-quality pictures intended solely for qualitative analysis of global weather. [28]
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The maps, images, and java animations in this site would make wonderful illustrations for presentation both on the part of teachers and students.
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SSEC
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Storm Events Database
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Search the NCDC Storm Event database to find various types of storms recorded in your county or use other selection criteria as desired.
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This data can easily be used to identify trends, both seasonal and annual of certain weather patterns.
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National Climatic Data Center
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Stromboli Project
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An indepth analysis of one particular volcano. This site features pictures, seismic data, QTVR files and a wealth of other data. [29]
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This site has a wealth of media that illustrates varies phenomena around volcanos that can be used as presentation aids by the teacher and also by students.
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University of Udine Dipartimento diGeorisorse e Territorio
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T.rex the Killer Question
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This is the companion Web site to a new _Tyrannosaurus rex_ exhibit at the
Natural History Museum in London. The exhibit explores evidence that this
famous dinosaur may have actually been a scavenger, not the ferocious
predator we all know and love. Virtual visitors can weigh some of the
evidence for themselves with Predator or Scavenger? [422]
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This site is an excellent way to convey to students that there are still many misteries, even about the past that scientists continue to investigate and explain.
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The Natural History Museum
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TerraServer
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Imagine being able to aim a satellite-based camera to just about any space in the United States and many other countries. What could you do with access to these images to help your students learn? Well, you canıt. But you have the next best thing. TerraServer, a work in progress, will soon be the largest database in the world. It holds satellite images of nearly every spot in this country. You can find an image by typing in the name of the place, by clicking on a map, or by entering its map coordinates. Then you zoom in, enlarge your image, and start identifying trees, buildings, roads and driveways.
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Use satellite images to...
- illustrate geologic concepts such as earthquake fault, mountain range actions, etc.
- identify community components in the schoolıs own community
- illustrate historic events
You can use MapBlast (http://www.mapblast.com) find the map coordinates of a specific street, and then use Terraserver to locate that spot via satellite. Try Elm Street, Dallas, Texas to see the Texas Textbook Depository and the infamous grassy knoll.
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Microsoft
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The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
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The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress will comprise a selection of approximately 4700 items (totaling about 38,000 images). This first release contains 1400 items consisting of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. [210]
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Ask students to study this web site and to speculate on how being a scientists in the 19th century compares with being a scientist today. Then ask students to pretend that they are scientists in the past writing letter to current day workers in science.
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Library of Congress
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The Amazing Picture Machine
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Are you looking for pictures to use in your lessons, or images for your students to include in their reports or HyperStudio stacks? Here is one logical place to come, a searchable archive of images from space, to cars, to people, to maps. [31]
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Students can use this database of images in preparing their multimedia reports.
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North Central Regional Educaitonal Laboratory (NCREL)
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The Dinosauria: The Truth is Stranger than Fiction
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This is a rich web site about dinosaurs. Its main purpose is to dispell many of the myths about this planet's former inhabitants. [239]
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This site would make a wonderful resource for a WebQuest
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University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology
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The Dynamic Earth
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The reason we know that glaciers covered certain areas of the globe while
continental plates buckled elsewhere is because of rocks. Thanks to these
gatekeepers of the past, we are better able to understand the earth's
history and the present. The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, offers this really interactive and engaging site to teach about
science of the earth. The three main sections of the site include: Rocks at
Earth's Surface, Rocks Below Earth's Surface, and Mining. [409]
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Smithsonian Institution, The National Museum of Natural History
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The Genomics Lexicon
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Database of terms and definitions used in the study of genetics. The Genomics Lexicon, a joint project of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the Foundation for Genetic Medicine, Inc. (FGM), is a searchable database of terms and definitions. [32]
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This reference page would be an essential part of any biology or other life science classroom web site. It can also be a reference tool for instructional ClassWebs for students.
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PhRMA & FGM
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The Nuclear Files
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This page comprises links to primary source documents including treaties, governances, and personal correspondences. There is also a teachers resources page available. [228]
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One of the most interesting aspects of this site is the personal correspondences. For instance, Einstein's letter to FDR in 1939 where he warns the president about scientific developments in Germany.
It might be beneficial during a study of World War II or of the 20th Century to ask students to read some of these letters to gain insites into the players of the development of nuclear weapons and then have them carry out a contemporary debate in character with the authors.
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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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The Open Science Project: Molecule Viewers and Editors
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This metasite is an excellent resource for chemical researchers and educators. It provides links to three free software programs:
JchemPaint, Jmol, and OpenChem. JchemPaint, developed at the Max
Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, is a Java program for drawing 2-D chemical structures. [212]
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Students may be motivated by being able to create their own 2D renderings of molecules. There may be a way to turn this into a contest.
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The Open Science Project
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The Sound of the Week
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These are sounds of nature, mostly birds. Not only do you get the "Sound of the Week," but also an archive of past sounds. The sounds are in .WAV format. [33]
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This is a variety of sound files that can be integrated into student multimedia presentations.
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The Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell University
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The Ultimate Space Place
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The Ultimate Space Place is a world leader for space information and history along with space related autographs, photographs and memorabilia. With a combination of photographs and words, we tell the story of mankind's quest to leave the earth and give you an opportunity to own a piece of that history through our collection of autographed photographs, books and space memorabilia. [276]
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The Ultimate Space Place
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The Virtual Cave
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From the comfort of your keyboard, browse the mineral wonders unique to the cave environment! We've collected images from around the world and combined them to generate an 'ideal' cave-one that contains an example of every major type of speleothem, or secondary mineral deposit. [226]
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Teachers can use this sites in a smart chalk board style applications to teach students about caves.
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Good Earth Graphics
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US Centennial of Flight Home Page
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At the heart of this site is the celebration of the Wright Brothers first Powered flight, here in North Carolina. The bulk of materials fall into three main sections: the timeline, essays,
and images. The essays provide helpful background reading on almost every
topic related to flight, ranging from the aerospace industry, inflight
refueling, air power, commercial aviation, and aerodynamics. The timeline
can be searched by year, keyword, or category. The image database can be
searched by category, most of which correspond to topical themes delineated
by the essays. For those looking to attend events related to the centennial,
a searchable calendar of events is also provided. [393]
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Fantastic video clips for use in the classroom. The timeline will also make a great story-starter tool.
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U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
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Vanderbilt University News Archive
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The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. [323]
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Vanderbilt University
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Vesalius: An Online Graphical Resource for Medical & Sergical Communities
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 Vesalius contains an extensive archive of anatomical images that are expressely inteneded for the medical community. However, this resources could be a gold mine of teaching materials for biology teachers. The site explicitly grants rights for downloading of images for non-commercial uses. [34]
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The images in this site can provide a wide variety of images for the teacher in presenting information about the anatomy. For students, biology might be integrated into art, where students download and assemble images into works of art, with text labels identifying the parts and functions of the parts.
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Vesalius Studios
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Views of the Solar System
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Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos. Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond. [229]
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Here is another great resource that can be used as a basis for a WebQuest
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Calvin J. Hamilton
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Virtual Skies - A NASA Educational Web Site
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Explore the exciting worlds of aviation technology, air traffic management, and current research in this web site designed for use in high schools and flight technology programs. [343]
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NASA
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Visible Earth
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The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. These images will be useful to the
interested public-at-large, as well as representatives of the media, scientists, and educators. Whether it be for personal use or for presentations, hopefully this collection and its organization will provide maximum benefit. [222]
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This resource provides a wealth of media that can be used for presentation by teachers and for special projects by students.
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NASA
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Volcanos of the World
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Information on current volcanos as will as data by continent and planet. Lots of pictures and some video clips are also featured. [35]
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Students can take the map coordinates from the Current Eruptions page and plot them on a map of the world to look for patterns and correlations. The same can be done with earthquake data, to look for correlations between quakes and volcanic eruptions.
The video clips can also be used by the teacher to demonstrate how volcanos work.
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Volcano World
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Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
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Nope, it's not about dinosaurs but it is just as fascinating! "Walking with
Prehistoric Beasts is the Discovery Channel's new television series on the
creatures that inhabited Earth after the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million
years ago (mya). The program's companion Website offers fabulous graphics
and games, with a little bit of informative text mixed in, about such beasts
as _Gastornis_, a meat-loving bird the size of a tall human,
_Propalaeotherium_, a 43 million year old cat-sized horse, and
_Andrewsarchus_, a furry, land-dwelling ancestor of the whale. [303]
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Discovery.com
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WeatherCAMs
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UM Weather's newly-expanded WeatherCams page provides access to over 800 weather cameras across North America, the largest list on the web! [221]
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This resource can be used in a number of ways, from identifying terrain of various locations, recording social characteristics.
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UM Weather
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Welcome to Cool Cosmos!
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This great educational site from Cal Tech offers all sorts of great
resources to assist in learning about the universe. Using the fun gear-like
menu on the left of the screen, visitors can pick from site areas such as
the Cosmic Classroom (which offers classroom activities, lessons, reference
info., and an Ask an Astronomer option), Cosmic Kids (where kids can learn
about what's in space through stories and resources like the Infrared Zoo),
the Video and Image Galleries, and lots more. The site should be a great
resource for teachers introducing students to the study of the universe or
those visitors who are simply interested in getting lost in space for a
while. [501]
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Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
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Who2
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This is a rich web site with basic biographies and lots of links to famous people. There is an alphabetical interface and a search tool for finding the person you are teaching about. [208]
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Assign each student in your class a famous person in history. Then allow them to research their famous person through Who2 or one of the other biography sites. Then ask each student to write a letter, or e-mail to their famous person. Have the e-mails sent to other students in the class or in another class where those students answer them in character.
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Who2
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Windows to the Universe
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Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system on the Earth and Space sciences for the use of the general public. The objective of this project, funded by ASA, is to develop an innovative and ngaging Web-site that spans the Earth and Space sciences. [36]
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Click the Rate our Site... link to see a very nice section with images and facts about the Solar System. Students might use this site as a travel guide to plot a vacation through our Solar System.
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NASA
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Women of NASA
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The Women of NASA resource was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science and technology. [37]
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Students or teams of students might be asked to select one of the women in the profiles section and asked to read their biography. Then they should list some of the barriers that they probably had to overcome in order to reach their position. Finally, each student or team will present to the class a brief summary of their selections accomplishments and probable barriers.
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NASA
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World News Map
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This is an intriguing resource that builds a map of the world with icons that indicate news stories related to headlines, politics, war, crime, accidents, business, sports and coming events. You click the geographically placed icon, and a CNN report appears. You can also click a continent and see only its map and there is also a news timeline. [535]
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Mikhail Poyzner
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WorldClimate
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Enter the name of you town or city, choose from the list of towns pulled from the WorldClimate database and learn the average, maximum average, and minimum average temeratures. Plot locations on a map, look up the average temperature, and have students study geography to conclude the reasons for the different temperatures. [38]
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Ask each student or team of students to pick five places around the world that they would like to visit. Then use the WorldClimate site to learn the average temperature of each location during each of the twelve months, and decide when during the year they would most want to visit each site. Then ask the students to write a travel log of their year around the world.
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Buttle and Tuttle Ltd.
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WorldNews.Com
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"Global news providing up to date stories on current events and the
latest news on business, entertainment, environment, sport, health, human rights, fashion, travel and women. Search top news,
breaking news, television, headlines and radio sites. Special Reports on global hot spots." [243]
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The WorldNews Network
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