Links

=Shared links:= Edit the page and add links that you've found useful. Give them a short summary so everyone will know why it's a site worth visiting. 

From Annette- Black box activity, teaching the Nature of Science- similar to Art's, perhaps the same? http://ncisla.wceruw.org/muse/earth-moon-sun/materials/INTRO/material1D/inotes/index.html

This is the link to Annenberg media site where you can access the entire video of the physics class (and others) through Video on Demand. You'll need to create an account, but it's free and painless for a small version of the video. http://www.learner.org/resources/series126.html?pop=yes&pid=1414#

This site has some great visual resources connecting the Earth systems at many different levels. Also includes a concept mapping program (online) that can connect to the already constructed concept maps. You just need to create yourself an account. [|Ocean Systems Concept Map]

This is a truly excellent Astronomy site! [|Astronomy Picture of the Day]

From Michelle: Here is my [|portaportal] account guest sign-in: mdeblois to check out my links.

[|smoulen]

A really great tool for collaboration for students throughout the globe is www.think.com. This is a site sponsored by the Oracle Foundation that allows educators and students to create web pages and communicate with students within your school or with students from other countries.

1. Cost: The site is free!!!! 2. Safety: Only individuals associated with a school are allowed to join. This is not a public site like Myspace, but students can create their own pages like Facebook or Myspace. Inappropriate words are automatically filtered and the administrator is notified. 3. Ease-of-Use: Teachers can administrate accounts. Teachers can add accounts or delete accounts with ease. 4. What can it do? You can have discussions, polls, votes, create web pages, and send out mass emails to all your students or selected groups.

I can give you a temporary student account if you want to try it out. Just email me at moulens at westbrookschools.org.