Websites of the Week
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| Each week we examine ten websites worth a visit. | |
| Especially for Students . . . | |
| National Geographic Xpeditions | |
| URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/ | |
| Xpeditions activities offer younger and older Xpeditioners the opportunity to use geography to complete a variety of missions. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: K-12 | |
| Wright Again: The Wright Brothers | |
| URL: http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/ | |
". . . virtually re-creates the development and construction of the Wright Flyer on the Web. The project follows the progress of the Wrights day by day, explaining the successes and setbacks from a scientific perspective as well as historical. Issues include aerodynamics, propulsion, control, and structural design. As the project moves along the developmental timeline, new discoveries are presented with accompanying hands-on classroom activities so that students can themselves become amateur engineers. All classroom activities are aligned with the National Science Education Standards." |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: 3 and up. | |
| Cool Science for Curious Kids | |
| URL: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/ | |
| The best science projects from museums around the country adapted to the web. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: K-3 | |
| Volcano World | |
| URL: http://www.volcanoworld.org/ | |
| "The web's premier source for volcano information." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 3 and up. | |
| Wonders of the Seas | |
| URL: http://www.oceanicresearch.org/lesson.html | |
| Eight ongoing lessons ranging from sponges to sharks. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 4 and up. | |
| Especially for Teachers . . . | |
| Poets.org | |
| URL: http://www.poets.org | |
| "Started in 1996, Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors can find hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, over 1700 poems, and audio clips of one hundred and fifty poems read by their authors or other poets. You can also learn all about the Academy and its programs; find local poetry resources on the National Poetry Map and calendar; and much more." | |
| Rock + Roll Hall of Fame and Museum | |
| URL: http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp | |
| Here you will find 78 teacher-created music lesson plans designed to "stimulate student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote interdisciplinary learning." (High school level.) | |
| Ask-A-Linguist | |
| URL: http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/index.html | |
| ". . . designed to be a place where anyone interested in language or linguistics can ask a question and get the response of a panel of professional linguists." | |
| The Anagram Engine | |
| URL: http://www.easypeasy.com/anagrams/ | |
| A powerful free anagram generator and anagram solver. | |
| Mark Sheehan's Lesson Plans Page | |
| URL: http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/lessons.html | |
| Teacher-created page of lesson plans, lesson plan links and subject resources. | |
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