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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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NOVA | Einstein\
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How would 10 top physicists—two Nobel Prize winners among them—describe 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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