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	March 25, 2002 Froguts.com http://www.froguts.com/ The objectives of this website include offering teachers and students a free online frog dissection that focuses on science learning standards (rather than the dissection itself) and provides a tool to help limit the over-use of frogs in dissection. The site requires a Flash 5 plug-in, which can be downloaded and installed from a link on the site. The student (and anyone else who want to do a neat dissection) controls everything about the activity, including the placement of pins, the scalpel, and other tools needed for the dissection. Every piece of frog anatomy is discussed during the operation. This is an excellent resource for Biology classes that don’t have an adequate lab or adequate funds for real frogs – and there’s no slime and no smell for those who sometimes spend more lab time worrying about the “touchy” stuff rather than learning the content. This site is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association and is a finalist for the 2002 ChildNet Awards. March 18, 2002 FBI Field Trip http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/kidsk5th.htm The FBI has put together a website to show students in grades K-5 what the FBI does, what it’s like to be an FBI agent, how trained dogs help the FBI, and what young people can do to keep themselves safe. Animated Labrador retrievers guide the field trip through the FBI’s history, what their badges used to look like, fingerprinting, and other aspects of FBI investigative procedures. Students will enjoy the “Working Dogs” segment, which discusses the different types of working dogs employed by the FBI – service dogs for the disabled, bomb-sniffing dogs, search-and-rescue dogs, and narcotics detection dogs. There are stories and pictures of some of the Bureau’s real-life canine heroes. The segments about child safety, crime solving, and investigations will interest students, teachers, and parents. March 11, 2002 eSkeletons http://www.eskeletons.org This site, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, lets students view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon. Each bone or bone comparison is connected to an information database that provides an interactive environment for examining and learning about skeletal anatomy. The site includes high-quality images of bones; labels of all muscles and morphological features; animation of all skeletal parts; and interactive movement and studying of all parts of the skeleton. Students can also choose to compare the bones of humans and the other primates in the database. This site has enough animation and interactive features to keep you learning for days. It’s an excellent place for learning about the body’s infrastructure. March 4, 2002 Rome With a View http://www.capitolium.org/english.htm Welcome to the archaeological site of the Imperial Forums of Rome, one of the largest areas in the world where digging, research, and studies are still under way. It is here that Roman civilization began and evolved throughout the centuries. This website has a sophisticated webcam system that lets you see the entire area surrounding the ancient Roman forums. You can even take control of the camera and zoom in on interesting sites. All camera views are live. In addition to the cams, this site provides a brief history of Rome, descriptions of the forum areas, resources that let you see what everyday life was like in ancient Rome, and a test of your knowledge about Roman history. A visit to this site is worth the time it takes to load the camera – just for the Coliseum at sunset (noon here is 6 pm there).
	Previous Sites-of-the-Week
	These sites are provided as a service to teachers, students, and the community. Greenwood School District 50 does not endorse any of the materials, programs, or persons associated with these sites. The District assumes no responsibility for the content of additional links provided by these sites.