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January
28, 2002
School Renewal WebCenter
http://www.schoolrenewal.org
This website features strategies for improving
instruction and for influencing learning by examining three “scripts” – academy, economy, and
community – representing
forces from beyond the
school that are working to help shape what takes place in schools. Very few
people think that school should focus solely on one of these areas. The fact
is that learning almost always involves some balance of intellectual,
workplace and social-emotional skills.
The School Renewal WebCenter is designed to help
teachers, administrators, parents, and community members think about
new designs for learning based on a balance of these areas. This site also provides thoughtful
discussion of education’s challenges, organized under school excellence,
class equity, and student engagement. This site also includes strategies and
resources for improving the educational impact of schools on students. It can help all of us think toward action
and take action toward results.
January
21, 2002
Pieces of Science
http://www.sln.org/pieces/
This site is an online gallery of sixteen educational resources related to a
collection of historical science objects.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum and the Science Museum, London invited a group of teachers to
select the science objects that would be interesting to study from several
viewpoints. They selected sixteen
objects to study. They had access to
the actual objects and all the historical material that related to those
objects. They studied the object, its
history, and its significance. The
teachers, then, developed classroom activities – for all grade levels –
related to their encounters with the real objects. The objects include Ben Franklin’s
lightning rod, bicycles, the Armonica, the first electric tabulating machine,
the coining press, daguerreotype cameras, Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Maillardet’s
automaton, solar-powered vehicles, the lunar module, motion photography, the
clone zone, Priestley’s physics project, and penicillin. Each object comes with a set of historical
information, visual aids, and lesson plans designed for audiences of all ages
and abilities.
January
14, 2002
The Most Important People of the 20th Century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/
TIME magazine has profiled the 100 most important people of the 20th
century. You will find stories about
those individuals who — for better or worse — most influenced the last 100
years. Those persons are presented in
five categories: Leaders and revolutionaries,
artists and entertainers, builders and titans, scientists and thinkers, and
heroes and icons. You’ll also read
about the Most Important Person of the century. This website also has links to other TIME
magazine Top 100 lists: Events of the
Century, Phonies and Frauds of the Century, and the Worst Ideas of the
Century. There is a lot of history to
be learned looking at what who tried when – and why.
January
7, 2002
Exit Plans: Interstate
Highways
http://www.interstate4u.com
This
website provides “everything you need to know about every interstate exit in
the USA” – and that’s the
truth. It’s an essential for any trip
you’re planning – in addition to helping study geography. Just give your starting city and state;
then give your destination city and state.
You will get a detailed “Exit Plan,” including a set of driving
instructions to the nearest interstate highway – then you get directions to
your destination. Unlike other map
sites, Interstate4U gives you a list of every interstate exit along the way –
with every gas station and convenience store, every restaurant (sit down and
drive through), every hotel and motel, and other information. It also includes mileage and estimated time
along each interstate segment and it includes information on construction and
work areas along the route. The site
also gives information about attractions along the way – tourist and
historical. Are we there yet?
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