Science, Standards

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Science, Standards the Internet

• Presented by Steve Mills,
• Science Teacher
• Greensburg Community Schools
• smills_at_seidata.com

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Finding Sites

• Magazines
• Books
• Television, radio, newspapers
• Portals
• Search engines or directories

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Research and Professional Organizations

• HASTI (Hoosier Association for Science Teachers
  in Indiana http//www.hasti.org
• National Science Teachers Association
  http//www.nsta.org
• Indiana State Standards http//www.doe.state.in.u
  s
• National Science Standards http//www.nap.edu/rea
  dingroom/books/nses
• Science News http//www.sciencenews.org

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Magazines

• Classroom Connect (800-638-1639)
  http//www.classroomconnect.com
• Learning and Leading with Technology (ISTE)
• MultiMedia Schools
• Technology and Learning
• Technology Connection

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Books

• The Internet Kids Yellow Pages by Jean
• Armour Polly, McGraw Hill, 2001.
• Hotlinks for Middle School Science, Classroom
  Connect, 2001.
• Science Web Guide by Classroom Connect, 2001.
• Surfin the Internet Practical Ideas from A to Z
  by Annette Lamb, Vision to Action, 1999.
• Yellow Pages by Classroom Connect, 2001.
• Web Feet, Rockhill Pres, www.rockhillpress.com

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Television, Radio, and Newspapers

• CNN (http//www.cnn.com)
• CBS, NBC, ABC
• Discovery Channel http//schooldiscovery.com
• USA Today http//www.usatoday.com
• PBS http//www.pbs.com
• New York Times Crossword http//www.nytimes.com/l
  earning/students/xwords/index.html
• Kid Crosswords http//www.kidcrosswords.com/

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Search Engines

• http//www.altavista.com
• http//www.google.com
• http//www.lycos.com
• http//guide.infoseek.com
• http//www.yahoo.com
• http//www.northernlight.com
• http//www.yahoo.com
• http//www.dogpile.com
• Visual Web Search http//www.kartoo.com

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Kids Search Engine

• Blue Webn http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/blueweb
  n
• KidsClick! http//sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!
  
• Ask Jeeves for Kids http//www.ajkids.com
• Yahooligans http//www.yahooligans.com
• Awesome Library http//www.awesomelibrary.org

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Web Evaluation or What Makes a Good Website?

• Organization, layout, and ease of use
• Graphics/topography
• Authorityedu. vs. com.
• Accuracy
• Linkswithin/outside
• Coverage
• Currency
• Objectivity

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Internet Domains

• .comcommercial organization
• .edueducational institutions
• .govgovernment, nonmilitary
• .milmilitary
• .orgother organizations
• .netnetwork resources

E-mail going to international locations have
different domains placed on the end as a country
code.
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Evaluate two sites

• http//www.nps.gov/yell/home.htm
• http//yellowstone.net/

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What can you do with the World Wide Web?

• Lesson plans
• Online projects
• WebQuests
• Interactive tutorials
• Online professionals
• Webcams
• Virtual fieldtrips
• General Reference
• Research
• Portals

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Lesson Plan Sites

• Space Science Lessons http//cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
  /lessons/lessons_teacherdeveloped.html
• Busy Teachers Website K-12 http//www.ceismc.gate
  ch.edu/busyt
• Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators
  http//school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
• Scholastic Network http//teacher.scholastic.com/
  index.htm
• Eduhound http//www.eduhound.com
• Edupuppy http//www.edupuppy.com
• The Science Spot http//sciencespot.net
• The Science Page http//www.sciencepage.org

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Online projects

• Email or keypals
• Telecollaborative Projects
• Your own projects

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Keypals and International competition

• KidLink (empowering kids and youth to build
  global networks of friends) http//www.kidlink.org
  /english/general/intro.html
• Epals http//www.epals.com
• Keypals http//www.teaching.com/keypals
• Thinkquests ( a non profit organization offering
  programs designed to advance education through
  the use of technology) http//www.thinkquest.org

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Online projects with other classes
Make sure you are ready for an online project
before plunging into one. Remember you must hold
up your end of the project for it to work well.
Get our fee wet with other projects on the
Internet before doing one of these. However, once
you are ready, heres some places to go to find
projects to try.

• Classroom Connect http//www.classroomconnect.net
  
• Global School Net http//gsn.org
• Web 66 http//web66.coled.umn.edu
• Kit and Kaboodle http//kitkaboodle.org/web/about
  /overview.htm

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WebQuestshttp//webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.htmlD
eveloped in 1995 by Bernie Dodge and Tom March
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity
activity in which most or all of the information
used by learning is drawn from the Web. They
are intended to alter the focus of a student
using the Internet from spending too much time
looking for needed information to effectively
using of time using the needed information.
WebQuests should increase the learners use of
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. They are
often cooperative group work with each learner
given a specific job title, assignment, and tasks.
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Interactive tutorial sites
These are sites that will allow you to see
demonstrations and interactive projects.
Remember, for some of these sites a fast, up to
date computer is necessary. The more video,
sound, and graphics you view, the faster the
machine needs to be for it to work well.

• Frog dissection http//curry.edschool.virginia.ed
  u/go/frog/
• Look inside a heart http//sln.fi.edu/biosci/hear
  t.html
• Hubble telescope http//resources.stsci.edu
• BodyQuest http//library.thinkquest.org/10348
• Bugscope http//bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/

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On line professionals

• Ask Dr. Universe http//www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/Co
  ntents.html
• Ask an Expert Sources http//www.cln.org/int_exper
  t.html

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Web Cams
Live cams are another way to see things on the
Net. The following are some sites you might try.

• Tommys list of Live Cams http//www.rt66.com/ozo
  ne/cam.htm
• Live NASA Cams http//www.ambitweb.com
• Science Webcams http//dsc.discovery.com/cams/cam
  s.html
• Eagle Cam http//wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/eaglecam/i
  ndex.html

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Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips and Web Museums is a portal
created by Midge Frazel with many links to
virtual field trips. It will take you to a
variety of museums all over to explore.
http//midgefrazel.net/fieldtrip.html Field
trips to museums http//www.lam.mus.ca.us/web.mus
eums
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General references sites

• Internet Public Library http//www.ipl.org
• Library Spot http//www.libraryspot.com
• Inspire http//www.inspire-Indiana.net
• LION http//libertynet.org/lion/lion.htm
• Homework Spot http//www.homeworkspot.com
• Britannica Encyclopedia http//www.britannica.com
  

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More Reference Sites

• Research It http//www.itools.com/research-it
• New York Public Library http//www.nypl.org
• K-12 Teaching and Learning Center
  http//www.iu13.k12.pa.us/tech_k12TLC.shtml
• Indiana Department of Education
  http//www.doe.state.in.us
• Library of Congress http//lcweb.loc.gov

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Sites for Research

• New York Times Science Q and A
  http//www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scienceqa
  /index.html
• Volcano World http//volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html
  
• Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
  http//naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html
• Erics Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography
  http//www.treasure-troves.com
• Classrooms for the 21st Century
  http//www.accessexcellence.org/21st
• African Americans biography
  http//www.princeton.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.ht
  ml

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Sites to help you find other sites

• Kathy Schrocks Guide http//www.discoveryschool.
  com/schrockguide
• Yahoo Science links http//dir.yahoo.com/Science/
  
• Yahooligans List of Science Sites
  http//www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Nature
• Eisenhower Clearinghouse for Math and Science
  http//www.enc.org
• Middle School Science Teachers Lounge
  http//www.middleschoolscience.org
• Jim Martindales Science Club http//www.martinda
  lecenter.com/
• KidsConnect Great Sites http//www.ala.org/ICONN/
  kcfavorites.html

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Physical Science

• Chem4Kids http//www.chem4kids.com
• Physics Central http//www.physicscentral.com
• Everyday Science http//www.everydayscience.org/
  index2.html
• The Science of Light http//www.learner.org/teach
  erslab/science/light/

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Life Science

• eNature http//www.enature.com/guides/select_grou
  p.asp
• Florida Museum of Natural History
  http//www.flmnh.ufl.edu
• National Museum of Natural History
  http//www.mnh.si.edu
• Ranger Ricks Kid Zone http//www.nwf.org/kids
• Sea World http//www.seaworld.com.au/education/ed
  ucation.cfm
• ZooNet for Kids http//members.aol.com/zoonetKids
  /index.htm
• Zoom School http//www.EnchantedLearning.com/scho
  ol

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Earth Science

• GeoLabs http//vcourseware4.calstatela.edu/
• U.S. Geological Survey http//www.usgs.gov/educat
  ion
• Climatic Extremes and Weather Happenings
  http//www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/
  extremes.html
• Exploratorium Learning Studio http//www.explorat
  orium.edu/map.html
• Weather Page http//www.weather.com

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Space Science

• Views of the Solar System http//www.solarviews.co
  m/eng/homepage.htm
• Windows to the Universe http//windows.engin.umic
  h.edu
• Nine Planets for Kids http//mercury.nineplanets.
  org8011/tnp4kids/
• The Nine Planets http//www.nineplanets.org/
• K-12 Space projects http//quest.arc.nasa.gov/ind
  ex.html

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Health Sites

• The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
  http//www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.ht
  ml
• Nutrition.gov http//www.nutrition.gov/home/index.
  php3
• Mayo Clinic Diseases, Medical Conditions, and
  Healthy Living Information http//www.mayoclinic.c
  om/findinformation/conditioncenters/
• Kids Health http//www.kidshealth.org/kid/il
  l_injure
• Health Tutorials http//www.nlm.nih.gov/medlinep
  lus/tutorials.html
• Yucky World http//www.yucky.com

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Clip Art

• Barrys Clip Art (free clip art to use)
  http//www.barrysclipart.com/
• Holiday Clip Art http//members.cyberz.net/jkeep
  es/holiday.htm
• School Clip Art http//www.teacherfiles.com/c
  lip_art.htm

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Bad Sciencehttp//www.ems.psu.edu/fraser/BadSc
ience.html
Be very, very careful what you put into the
head, because you will never, ever get it out.
Cardinal Wolsey (1475-1530)
This a site that I found that doesnt fall into
any category. It is called Bad Science.
This site is an attempt to sensitize teachers and
students to examples of the bad science often
taught in schools, universities, and offered in
popular articles and even textbooks.
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The Future of the Internet

• Changing the way teachers teach and students
  learn
• Empowers everyone, from adult to child to become
  lifelong learners
• Complements your school library
• Connecting more schools to the world
• Students need Net access to become the knowledge
  workers of the 21st Century.
• Live video conferencing between entire classes of
  students, worldwide
• Live audio conferencing
• Streaming video

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In Conclusion

• Keep searching for sites. There are new sites
  every minute.
• Always make sure you try sites out BEFORE you use
  them with students
• Never let students surf the net especially
  young students
• Make sure you have some sort of directed study
  while using the Internet.
• Tell or show students what sites you want them to
  use.

Most of all the Internet is a GREAT resource for
every science classroom and teacher. Make sure
you are using it. And have fun!