Web Resources

for Utilizing Home Computers


 

Primary Source Resources

Science and Math

http://www.noaa.gov/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminisitration Site provides source data on the atmosphere

http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA's data on ozone in the atmoshere through the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

http://theweathernetwork.com/

Weather data from around the globe

http://www.enc.org/weblinks/reference/realdata/

Eisenhower National Clearinghoue offers links to dozens of sites that have real data sources for math and science

Social Sciences and Language Arts

http://www.censusscope.org/

Census Data

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Lesson Plans and Activities using articles from the NY Times

http://memory.loc.gov/

Library of Congress Memory Collection of historical source documents

 

Communication Sources

Math and Science

http://www.enc.org/weblinks/reference/askanexpert/

Eisenhower National Clearinghoue offers links to dozens of sites that links to sites that allow visitors to ask questions to experts

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Meet the people of NASA through real-time chats, e-mail, and other on-line means.

http://www.globe.gov/globe_html.html

Collaborate with other classes around the world in collected data about the environment

Social Sciences and Language Arts

http://www.epals.org/

Provides opportunities to connect your classroom with others from around the world

http://www.monsterexchange.org/

Classrooms from a variety of schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. The students must then write a description of the monster. The partnered classes then exchange their descriptions via e-mail and the Internet. These students are then challenged to use reading comprehension skills to read the descriptions and translate them into a monster picture. The true challenge involves creating a redrawn picture as close to the original picture as possible without looking at the original and using only the written description of the monster.

http://www.authorchats.com/

A resource to chat with authors of children's books

Electronic Field Trips

http://education.nasa.gov/fieldtrip.html

Go on electronic field trips with NASA

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/eft.cfm

Take an electronic field trip through colonial Williamsburg

http://www.gsn.org/expeditions/

Online expeditions

http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm

A resource of virtual field trips

http://techforteachers.org/tfteft.html

Technology for Teachers - a resource of virtual field trips to museums and places around the world

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

A virtual journey with Louis and Clark

 

Web Quests

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

A Resource for Web Quests for different subject areas and age groups.

 

Learning Games

http://ology.amnh.org/paleontology/

Game on Dinosaurs from the American Museum of Natural History

http://www.funbrain.com/

Math games

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html

More Math games!

http://www.aplusmath.com/games/index.html

A+ Math

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/

Games from National Geographic