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Visit these web sites for information, activities, and resources for learning biology, health education, and medicine.
Online Learning from the American Museum of Natural History
by Ashton Applewhite
If you can't join the visitors who pour through the American Museum of Natural History's doors every day, join those who tap in every week to its remarkable online educational resources. Here's a virtual tour.
A Virtual Tour of Washington's Smithsonian Institution
by Gwen Solomon and Stan Solomon
The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum complex and it has awesome content. Take a virtual trip to find the education-specific assets of this incredible resource.
The Wright Brothers' 100th Anniversary
by Stan Solomon
Prepare for the Centennial of Flight anniversary with these web sites that take you back in history to the Wright Brothers' accomplishment, the first self-propelled heavier-than-air flight.
Student and Expert Communications
by Rosemary Shaw
One way that students will get excited about a subject is if they speak directly to an expert. Here are web sites to get started.
Mammals
By Susan Silverman
Kids of all ages love learning about mammals. They keep mammals as pets; they visit mammals at zoos, and, after all, they themselves are mammals. Susan provides some wonderful resources to enrich your students' journey through this part of the animal kingdom.
Endangered Animals in the News - From Tragedies to Triumphs
By Joan Goble and Rene de Vries
With all the focus on our world's various human problems, we sometimes forget that the animal kingdom also has its share of problems. In fact, for various reasons, many animals have been placed on the list of endangered species. But all is not gloom, for many once-endangered species are now doing much better. Here is a list of some Tragedies, and, happily, some Triumphs.
Earth Education: The Biomes Web Tour
By Susan Silverman
Children of all ages enjoy studying the different climates of biomes and learning about the plants and animals that form these distinctive ecosystems. For educators, biomes can spark countless creative, multicultural and interdisciplinary lessons and projects. Best of all, by teaching this subject you raise the environmental awareness and ecological intelligence of the next generation of biome caretakers.
Online Science Experiments
By Ken Royal
If you believe that all other subjects generate out of a central spoke called science, then these Experiment, Project, and Activity Sites are for you. The activities include objectives, illustrations, materials, procedures, and additional links. There are even a few here to help with science fairs. All of these sites have one thing in common, though, and that is safety. Before experimenting, remember safety first.
Better Living Through Botany
By Carol S. Holzberg, PhD
Too often, we take the botanical world for granted, forgetting that plants provide us with food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. Plants spice up our meals and oxygenate our air (as a by-product of photosynthesis). In swamps, marshes, and other wetlands, they serve as organic filters drawing out impurities from polluted waters. Without plants, there could be no life. To learn more about the importance of plants, visit the Web sites that Carol suggests.
Extreme Weather
By Susan Brooks-Young
Throughout history people have attempted to explain, forecast, and control our weather. Ancient people believed that gods or spirits controlled the weather. Although in modern times we better understand what causes certain weather conditions, we still have virtually no control over them and aren't even terribly good at predictions. Perhaps this is why people continue to be fascinated with weather. Movies such as The Perfect Storm, the Weather Channel with 24/7 weather coverage, groups of people who chase tornadoes to watch and film them are all indicators of how interested we are, particularly in extreme weather conditions. This Web tour takes you and your students into the world of extreme weather. Don't forget your umbrella!
Health and Safety
By Susan Silverman
Teaching students about health and safety can be fun and easy with the plethora of health- and safety- related sites on the World Wide Web. Susan provides the following sites that support learning standards in a variety of subject areas. Whether you are a health education or classroom teacher, you will find these Web sites helpful.
Web-Based Science Networks
by Alec M. Bodzin
Alec recommends Web-based science networks that provide collaborative projects for students to participate in. These include weather and animal data collection and comparison projects, scientific monitoring, and research expeditions.
Ken's Konnections #9 - Earth Science
By Ken Royal
The following Konnections will help to enhance earth science, geography, and weather studies. It's amazing how much recent data is available in this area through the Internet. Sites like "Storm Track" will impress you. Collecting some of this data can be down right dangerous, but you and your students can do it in the safety of your classroom, through the computer screen. Learn more about our unstable earth with this Konnections.
Ken's Konnection #6 - Animals, Insects, ZooCams, and Dinosaurs
By Ken Royal
Animal study plays an important part in most science classrooms, for that matter in any classroom. The following Konnections have links to everything from live zoo cameras to crocodiles and sharks. Also included are Insects and dinosaur sites. If you're looking for animal links, these Konnections will narrow down your search. Favorites like the Panda Cam will give you views that research scientists get, while SeaWorld's database can't be beat. The study of animals today is made more enjoyable by sites like these.
Ken's Konnections #5 - The Human Body
By Ken Royal
The study of the human body and health related activities lend themselves nicely to the Internet. The Konnections examples here will offer more information, in the simplest, neatest way. Sites like the "Bio Interactive" with animations are wonderful. Watch the blood flow to and from the heart. Actually "see" what a bypass is in places like the HeartPoint Gallery. Spend some time learning about the brain and senses too. If you can get a book to do what these sites can do, I want to see it.
Ken's Konnections #4 - General Science
By Ken Royal
All science teachers can remember their greatest lessons and teaching experiences. These science Konnections offer such a wide variety of information that it would be difficult to put them into just one category. Science teachers will find recent science news, information, and creative, interactive sites that will be invaluable. Remember when sharing with colleagues for a few moments before or after a teachers' meeting, was the only way to share, or gain new ideas. That has changed a bit. The Internet has helped teachers throughout the world share. Leading that sharing are sites created by and for science teachers. While the following don't quite fit into a specific grouping, beginning and veteran science teachers will enjoy the wealth of material provided. Every science teacher will find something here.
Ken's Konnections #3 - Space
By Ken Royal
Never again will the classroom study of space be the same. Take a look at these Konnections and see what your science book can't do. You'll find NASA's simulators, multimedia shows and graphics of the sun and planets. The affects of gravity, pressure, and even your change in weight on other planets are here. You're just a mouse click away from universal discoveries.
Ken's Konnections #2 - Chemistry
By Ken Royal
In this Konnection you will find some of the best Chemistry sites on the Internet, along with some online periodic tables that will never hang from a classroom wall.
Ken's Konnections #1 - Biology
By Ken Royal
Looking for an online biology text, or some great how-to lessons? Well, here are the Konnections. Look through Kunkel's microscope, hunt for viruses, and read about bad bugs. Dissect frogs and cats, worms, sharks, and crayfish. Discover what the animal was by just looking at its skull. Biology has found a home on the Internet and these connections will take you there.
Science Web Sites
By Ken Royal
The Internet has helped teachers throughout the world share. Leading that sharing are sites created by and for science teachers. The science sites that Ken shares in this column are not the only sites out there, but they are a good sampling for science teachers who are pros at surfing the web, and also for those science teachers who have just decided to get their feet wet for the first time.
Rainforests
By Roger Gottlieb
Rainforests are special. These warm, wet places cover about 15% of the earth's surface and need at least 80 inches of rain annually. Tropical rainforests grow mainly between the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern hemisphere and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. But civilization, with its deforestation and climatic changes, is rapidly pushing the Rainforest onto the endangered list. Students enjoy learning about rainforests and there are lots of web sites on the topic. Roger shares many of his favorites for both teachers and students.
Spiders on the Web
By Roger Gottlieb
If any living thing could be the Internet's mascot, it would probably be the mighty arachnid, commonly known as spider. These eight-legged creatures spin a web to ensnare bugs and other tasty objects. The Internet... well, the metaphor is better left unsaid. Anyway, for those of you who want information about spiders and want it on the Web, Roger provides the following sites.
Science Education Listservs
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Arun offers an assortment of web sites for science educators in a range of science topics. In addition, you'll find information about listservs themselves, how to subscribe, and important facts.
NASA Educational Resources
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
NASA provides many sites that offer different aspects of Space Science. This list provides a comprehensive list of the resources available at the various NASA labs throughout the country.
Science Web Sites
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Arun has compiled a list of fascinating, unusual, and definitely helpful sites for anyone interested in teaching science. For example, you'll find two sites dedicated to the contributions of Galileo and other Renaissance Mathematicians; a site dedicated to using computers in physics classes; and another site about the mathematics and physics of rainbows.
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