Teacher Links			Mathematics/Science
Mathematics/Science Language Arts Social Science Fine Arts Teacher Tools Technology Misc. Home WIT-L Moderator and Links Manager: emfabiyi@pepperdine.edu			THEMIS: Latest Images http://themis.la.asu.edu/latest.html Mailing List for ASU Mars Education Program http://marsed.asu.edu/mail.php The Planetary Society http://www.planetarysociety.org/ Martian Sun Times http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/MartianSunTimes/ Developed a few years ago by Lab School teachers Florence Vaughan and Jeff Benson (now retired), this site provides online investigations related to Mars, complete with fascinating links to real data. Mars@nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0102/feature2/index.html National Geographic's web site contains a great deal of Mars info, including a multimedia special called Sights and Sounds from Mars ( http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0102/feature2/media.html ). There are also some good lesson plans here. Check out http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g912/ marstech.html . Exploratorium: Journey to Mars http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/ The Exploratorium is a science museum based in San Francisco, and their web site contains a wealth of engaging information. Their Mars pages feature web casts with scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and NASA. NOVA | Mars Dead or Alive | PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/ This is the companion site to a television program that aired on January 6. Mars Exploration Rover Mission Home Page http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html NASA's main page for Mars information. There's something for everyone here with sections devoted to kids, students, educators and the press. Note that the second rover, Opportunity, will land on Mars on January 24. top Earth Day Groceries Project http://www.earthdaybags.org/ It's a global telocollaborative project in which grocery stores and schools team up to promote Earth Day. The stores give brown paper bags to students who then in turn decorate them with environmentally friendly messages and artwork. The stores then distribute these specially decorated bags with groceries on Earth Day as a way to bring awareness to their customers. Earth Day Network http://www.earthday.net/ This site seems to be the official main site of the Earth Day celebration. You can register for educational materials in their Teachers' Corner. EcoKids! http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/index.cfm This Canadian site contains a great deal of information for kids and teachers alike. PBS - Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/ This companion site to a PBS program on ecosystems is a few years old, but some of its information is worthwhile. There's a good interactive quiz http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/quiz/index.html , and an extensive list of other links http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/resources.html. Project Wild http://www.projectwild.org/ top Engineer Girl http://www.engineergirl.org/ Engineering site has information and some interactivity for middles school girls. top Ology (American Museum of Natural History) http://ology.amnh.org/index.html You'll zoom through time, meet enormous extinct dinosaurs from millions of years ago and smaller dinosaurs that exist today. You'll meet Museum scientists. Bright, colorful, and lots of content. Not structured into lessons and no teacher guide. Written to entice and engage kids. Molecular Expressions http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html This site has hundreds of images using optical microscopy. It is loaded with a range of pictures, has a nice teacher resource section and student activities. Images are clear and some of the galleries are interactive. Good for science teacher, regular classroom and after school activity Dragonflytv: Try This http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/knowhow.html I've suggested Dragonflytv before, but I found a section within it that you can use for home activities. The Try This pages have simple experiments students can do at home with their family. Also, they can participate in nationwide studies by entering data from their own investigations Figure This http://www.figurethis.org/index.html The Figure This website offers mathematical challenges that students can do with their families at home. This site has challenging questions that families can work together to figure out. Teachers section has supportive information that includes letters for parents and standards met. Calculators On-Line Center http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html A little quirky to navigate, this site has thousands of calculators. I would suggest linking or bookmarking specific calculators your class would use instead of having students spend time looking for an appropriate one. top Multiflyer http://www.gdbdp.com/multiflyer/ A fun site for practicing multiplication skills. Froguts http://www.froguts.com/index.htm Get ready for some real frog dissection. Middle School Science Fair Ideas and Resources http://www.d65.k12.il.us/Schools/Nichols_MS/Nichols/sciencefairsites/scifairsites.html Great list of links to resources. Woodland Network http://www.skolweb.vaxjo.se/biowindows/default.htm This Web site offers three interactive environmental projects that link students around the world in the collection and sharing of data from a woodland research, while raising public awareness of environmental issues. Interactive Mathematics Activities http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Curriculum/index.shtml Interactive Mathematics activities. Interactive Geometry http://www.studyworksonline.com/cda/explorations/main/0,,NAV2-21,00.html Get a feel for some of the fundamentals of geometry.
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