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June
24, 2002
Stormy Weather
http://www.educationcentral.org/stormy
What leads to stormy weather? Once you understand the elements that create
storm systems, you'll be on your way to learning to cope with the devastating
impact storms have on the people of the world. At this website, students learn to use the
Internet and software tools while doing atmosphere investigations. All activities, especially the Weather Hunt,
Storm Sampler, and The Perfect Storm, are designed for use by cooperative
groups and culminate in a final shared presentation. The Weather Hotlist and the Weather Scrapbook are easily adapted for
use by individual students. Students
are the audience for the activities; however, parents and others may find the
activities to be fun and challenging. There is a set of Teacher's Pages with
lesson plans and strategies. Each section is based on the core components of America's Choice, National Science
Education, and Florida's Sunshine State Standards. The Duval
County (FL) school system developed this website.
June 17, 2002
Paper Money in America
http://www.bep.treas.gov/
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in the U.S. Department of the Treasury,
prints America’s paper money. This website tells citizens about the “new”
paper money, anti-counterfeiting strategies, money facts, what happens to old
money, and facts for collectors. This
site is an excellent resource in finance and economics classes, in American
history classes, and in general social studies classes.
June 10, 2002
The Senses
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/
Saying your nose does the smelling is like saying you hear with your ear
lobes. This website presents an online
report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The report, entitled “Seeing, Hearing, and
Smelling the World,” contains sections about how the brain processes sensory
input, how we see colors and movement, how hearing works, how to locate the
source of a sound, the mystery of smell, and how the nose – or whatever is in
the nose – works. This website can help
students “make sense of our senses.”
June 3, 2002
Sport! Science at the
Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html
Sport! Science explores the nature of what happens when games are
played. You can learn the science of
baseball (how do you throw a curve ball?), cycling, skateboarding, hockey,
and others. Players from professional
teams explain the science behind the games.
NHL stars explain the concepts of “slippery” ice, reaction time, and
the mechanics of skating. Pioneers of
skateboarding explain the concepts of frontside
forces and fakie flight – all part of the physics
of trick boarding. Many other experts,
including team members of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, explain the
science of sport.
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