Site of the Week
Previous Sites-of-the-Week District Home Page Schools Services Who to Contact Information Center Other Links Weather Bulletin Email Us	February 25, 2002 EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov The National Endowment for the Humanities has created a collection of the best resources for K-12 humanities teachers. Links from this page cover the fields of social studies, history, literature, foreign languages, art, and culture. These represent an in-depth, accurate, ready-to-use set of Internet materials in all those areas. The site includes three special teaching aids, a monthly calendar of historical events with links to related content, a list of lesson plans and websites related to a different theme each month. This website helps students explore the “why” related to each topic and area presented here. February 18, 2002 Microbe! http://www.microbe.org The American Society for Microbiology developed this website as a comprehensive resource for teachers and students in grades 6 and up. It’s a great site for parents who are trying to decide if their student’s science project will start the next great plague. The site has science news, do-it-at-home activities, career information, and a neat (no pun intended) hand-washing test for students and adults. Activities help students learn about microbes from their “hands to the mighty Himalayas, landfills to oil spills, common colds to uncommon cures, and more. There are graphics generated from electron microscopes that show many different types of microbes. February 11, 2002 2002 Olympic Winter Games http://www.saltlake2002.com/ This is the official site of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. You can find daily event schedules and results, descriptions of each winter sport, biographies of the athletes, the history of the Olympic Games, the television schedule, and much more about the Olympic Winter Games. You can read stories about the athletes who are favored in their events, articles about Salt Lake City, and highlights of past winter games. There are many things on this site for everyone to enjoy. February 4, 2002 CNN Student News http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/index.html CNN has combined its CNN NewsRoom and CNNfyi resources into a comprehensive educational resource named "CNN Student News."   The site is sponsored by Harcourt and Riverdeep, both of which add resources for students and teachers.  For example, Riverdeep has a link called "The World Wide Rumor Web," which examines urban legends circulated through email and the web.  They use specific examples -- most of which are easily identified by everyone because we've received an email about those at one time or another -- to teach exponential growth, propaganda, statistics, and other concepts related to many of our State standards. Every content area has stories and current events that connect the news to curriculum in lots of ways.  There is some very neat stuff here -- stuff that will connect curriculum to students – and their parents – through the news.
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