"Rainforest Live, Oceans Live"- Students at field schools explore the world while your class joins them on semester-long expeditions.
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Acid Rain- Students measure pH of rain water in area and submit it to data from all over the world. Can use it to analyze the affect of atmospheric pollution on rain.
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An Educator's Guide- "This educator's guide offers all of the resources you will need to get started using the Internet in any secondary or college course. It presents three models for Internet courses, and outlines three steps for any educator to follow in preparing an Internet course: conducting Research, forming Partnerships, and handling Conversion."
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Beach in a Bottle- "Internet project designed to promote real-life problem solving skills. Students will contact schools in coastal areas of the U.S. to provide water samples. Samples will be analyzed and evaluated on the basis of water quality, sea life, and sand. A database will help share the conclusions (1/06/99 to 11/30/99)."
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Brooks/Cole Biology Resource Center- "Web surfing, however, gives you access to far more than 57 channels' worth of information and fun. To make exploring the web easier, we've tried to pull together some of the best-looking and most informative biology-related sites here."
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ExplorA-Pond: The Pond Ecology Web Site- "Experience a simulated pond, take a virtual tour of an outdoor classroom, complete pond math and pond science activities, publish your adopted pond online, or chat with other K-6 students interested in pond stuff (4/01/99 to 12/01/01)."
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Explore Learning Goals and Activity Formats- "Teachers can use Filamentality to create Web-based learning pages that include the teacher's choice of Internet links and activities focused on achieving a specific goal.
Start with a topic, a learning goal, and get one or two activity formats floating around in the back of your mind. You'll actually begin using Filamentality to gather a collection of Web links. Then you'll be prompted to customize things like introductions, questions, instructions, etc. depending on the type of activity format you choose."
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Filamentality-web-buikding activities- "Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners."
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Geosciences activities in collaboration with CoVis- CoVis Interschool Activities (CIAs) were projects with activities previously coordinated and supported by the Northwestern CoVis Team. A version of these projects could have been successfully accomplished in a stand-alone classroom.
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Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)- "Worldwide network of students, teachers and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Over 6,000 students in 80 countries are working with scientists on projects about the planet."
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Global School net- Good resouurce for either projects to join or ideas for your own on-line project.
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Global Water Sampling Project- Water samples tested all over the world. Can join anywhere from 3/1 to 5/21/99. Requirements to join. See web site.
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Joint Office for Science Support- "Provides scientific, technical, and administrative support services to the research community for the purpose of planning, organizing, and implementing research programs and associated field projects worldwide."
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Mars Team Online- Conversations with Mars Team scientists in Q and A format as well as other information on NASA.
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Minds on Science- "A website that science educators, K- College can find resources, activities and people interested in improving science education."
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Module Maker- This Module Maker will show you how to build your own
Online Research Modules which will challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking.
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Mrs. Sanderson's Class- An on-line project of e-mail conversations with a variety of scientists by a sophomore chemistry class. Could also be cross referenced Scientists.
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Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer- Click a category to find Web sites within that category or try our frames interface.
Dewey numbers are in parentheses.
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Science Mentors: A Tenet Minigrant Project- This project will allow middle school students working on a major research project to locate electronic mentors to assist them and will establish an info exchange for middle schl teachers and students location of information and mentors in specific areas
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Telecollaborations ===>Ongoing Projects<===- Sites with Multiple Projects APICNET Educational Projects: from the Association for Promotion of International
Cooperation Network.
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TELUS- "Site currently has more than 2567 annotated links.
Use ""Find a Site"" within the strands to search our database!"
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The BioNet TerraData Project- Members of TerraData Project go to a biotop and fill in their observations into a data sheet. The indicator plants have specific properties which are listed in the textbook by Heinz Ellenberg. The Terra Data Project is based on a simplification for the use in schools by Annegret Dorn and Eckhard Pohl.
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The GLOBE Program- "Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment."
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The MagNet Project- "Internet project where students build a simple instrument (optical lever) to monitor the changes in the Earth's magnetic field due to solar storms, flares, etc. They will track these changes over time to follow changes in solar activity, and compare their results with satellite images other student observers in the MagNet network."
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Virtual Frog Dissection Kit- Dissect a frog online without having to kill one.
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Virtual Galapagos:Education Workbook- "Pre-registered students become Classroom Correspondents as they investigate animals in their areas, share their findings, and make comparisons to the animals in the Galápagos."
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Welcome to Internet Connect- "Commercial curriculum resource . Internet, conferencing, and real-time activities a specialty."
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Wired Antarctica- This interactive resource allows students to learn about glaciers and Antarctica. Join the researchers as they journey to the southernmost continent and partake in the lessons that give students an eye-opening insight into the unknown continent (6/01/98 to 12/31/02).
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Worldwide Weather Weather Service- Monitor local weather daily and post information on a perl-script database around the world. Very simple…have your students collect information and post it at this site. All information will then be posted and viewable at the above URL (8/01/98 to 12/01/02).
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