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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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In Your Classroom:
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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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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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In Your Classroom:
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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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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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