Objective 3: Share Educational Websites / Software

Updated Sources of Good Educational Websites:
1. Subscribe to my "Tools for the TEKS" mailing list: http://www.wtvi.com/teks(fill out and submit the form at the
bottom of the page)
2. Subscribe to "Homework Central's" mailing list for periodic updates: http://www.homeworkcentral.com/top8.htp
3. Check out "What's Cool" on Yahooligans: http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/cool/
4. Join Classroom Connect's "Connected Teacher" and utilize their resources: http://www.connectedteacher.com/

From the 5-10-99 TEKS update:
Tornado Links
Scientific American: Scientists unravel the twisted ways of tornadoes.
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/052096explorations.html

Tornado photo gallery from the University of Illinois: Excellent photos as well as diagrams/drawings of meteorological forces at work in the creation of tornados that are overlaid on top of real photos
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/stormspotters/html/tornado.html

FEMA tornado site
http://www.fema.gov/library/tornadof.htm

Photographs tell the story of tornado damage in Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma (if you look at any of these tornado links, this is the most striking one to see):
http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/weather/tornado/photos/index.htm

Map of storm damage in Wichita, Kansas: My cousin lives on 52nd street east of Seneca, revealed in this map to have been frighteningly close to substantial storm damage and several of the fatalities (of a state total of 5) from last week's deadly storms:
http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/weather/tornado/damagemap0507.htm

"Walking the path of destruction: Discover what a tornado takes -- and what it leaves behind" (touching photos and first person accounts of the storm and its aftermath in Wichita):
http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/weather/tornado/seneca/index.htm

Memorial Day Resource Guide:
http://members.aol.com/vetsofamer/memday.htm

Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/wow/files.htp?fileid=45135&use=hc

Dinosauria : Life History & Ecology (great site about dinasaur nest, footprints, anddiet)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinolh.html

US Treasury Website for Kids: Learn all about US currency
http://www.ustreas.gov/kids/

Student Study Guide for the Kosovo Conflict: Includes a wide variety of links to background information as well as current developments
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/spotlight/kosovo/

From the 5-17-99 TEKS update:
Math in Daily Life: How do numbers affect everyday decisions? This super website by the Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection provides great examples of how important math is in our daily lives.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/

This section of NASA's huge and wonderful Website provides a new dimension for students who are learning the state capitals. Click on one of the states on the interactive United States map to see a satellite photo of its capital. http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/capitals/capital.html

The Korean History Project: This award winning site describes the history and culture of Korea in exquisite detail. http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/Ket/CvrSht.htm

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Tour the museum, take in the exhibits, and learn how the "great ones" of baseball made history.
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/

The Wiretap Electronic Text Archive includes links to thousands of online documents and literature. This website started in the infancy of the internet, therefore many of its links use the old, text-only "gopher" protocol. You can still access them directly from your web browser, however. If you have a PDA (like a PalmPilot) and have been looking a for a site containing full text books you can download and read on the road, this is the site for you.
http://wiretap.area.com/

An example of the resources available from Wiretap includes access to full text copies of Shakespeare's works: Comedies: ftp://wiretap.area.com/Library/Classic/Shakespeare/Comedies/
Tregedies: ftp://wiretap.area.com/Library/Classic/Shakespeare/Tragedies/
Poetry: ftp://wiretap.area.com/Library/Classic/Shakespeare/Poetry/

"A APPLE PIE," BY KATE GREENAWAY: AN OLD FASHIONED ALPHABET BOOK. Help primary age students learn their alphabet with this book online.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/greenaway/pie/A-Apple-Pie.html

This animated page from the Gulf of Maine Aquarium includes facts about turtle defenses and crafts, and teaches you how to explore a pond or build one of your own.
http://octopus.gma.org/turtles/index.html

From the 6-5-99 TEKS update:
Did NATO win the Cold War?
This digitized document summary, prepared on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, focuses into the past with rapidly developing lenses of Internet research. As opinion is rampant on the Internet, so more and more is fact -- in increasingly organized, cited, and accessible forms. Although the title of this Website asks a question, what it provides is not an answer, but the basis for thoughtful opinion.

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/NSAEBB/NSAEBB14/index.htm

Art Safari
This is "An Adventure in Looking for Children and Adults" from New York City's Modern Museum of Art. As questions display about paintings from the MOMA collection, the audio encourages expressiveness: "Write about what you see, and use your imagination." http://artsafari.moma.org/

Civil War music
Listen to music from one of the most influential wars in this country's history: the Civil War.
http://www.erols.com/kfraser/music.htm

Picture Playground
Got a favorite photo of a loved one, family member or group of friends? Visit Kodak's Picture Playground and have some real fun with it. Features allow you to turn your photo into a digital cartoon, make it look like an antique, add animal features to humans, saturate colors or choose use several other special effects to make it into a "picture worth a thousand words..."
http://www.kodak.com/go/play

Holidays in the United States
Unsure about the meaning of Memorial Day? Scroll down this page to read all about it. While you're there, take a minute to learn how Americans celebrate other holidays.
http://www.usia.gov/usa/infousa/facts/portrait/holidays.htm

Bird Watchlist4Kids
The Audubon Society explains to its young cyber audience: "The big idea behind the WatchListis prevention. By taking action now, we can prevent these at-risk birds from becoming threatened or endangered birds on the brink of extinction. If we can help them now, we won't have to rescue them later!"
http://www.audubon.org/bird/watch/kids/

RiceWorld
Students can practice Web skills while picking up knowledge about the grain that is the basic food for 3 billion people, in this beautifully constructed, richly interactive site.
http://www.riceworld.org/

Currency Converter
There are a lot of currency converters available online: this one has the added benefit of letting users specify different dates, so you can compare relative currency values that have changed over time.
http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic

From the 6-17-99 TEKS update:
National Geographic's Amazing Facts website includes sections on "Far Out Facts," "Why in the World," and "Animal Trivia."
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/amfacts/

MIT's "The Invention Dimension!" includes lots of super links appropriate for student scientists and would-be inventors: http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/links.html#kids

This detailed ThinkQuest site tells you the facts and the legends of pirates throughout history. http://despina.advanced.org/16438/index.shtml

Companion site to this PBS series for dog lovers and owners. Includes info about the show, weekly dog care tips, answers to common dog questions, dog stories, and more.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/woof/home.html

Good general site for educators looking for resources:
http://www.education-world.com/

View an original copy of the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key and learn more about it at the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm065.html

Learn about the history of the US Flag:
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/flag.html

This constellation list is a great guide for star watchers this summer (or any season in any hemisphere): http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/constellns/constlist.html

From the 6-23-99 TEKS update:
A photographic exhibit of the building of America's first transcontinental railroad
http://cprr.org/

The Prisoners' Dilemma game has been used in biology, sociology, public policy to explore alternative strategies of competition and cooperation. Now it is an online, interactive game:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/~ann/pd.html

For a slightly longer explanation of why the game is important and what can be learned from it, visit: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/~pgrobste/pdref.html

TeachersFirst is a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers who want useful resources and lesson plans to use with their students.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/

Learn about cool scientific concepts like membranes, fluid flow, cracking dams, and crackling noises through computer simulations.
http://simscience.org/

On "Your Nation," visitors choose any two countries and compare or rank them according to a huge number of various categories. Super resource for finding likenesses and differences.
http://www.your-nation.com/

The Amazing Picture Machine: Do your students need to find a picture about a specific topic, but you are (understandably) hesitant to use Altavista or Lycos? Try this engine maintained by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory in Illinois.
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

"Ready Web" is a resource for parents and educators. Investigate topics like "Helping Children Get Ready for School", and "Helping Schools Get Ready for Children."
http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/

Yuckiest site on the Web: Learn about bugs and worms and body parts through sound, video, graphics. Great site for elementary students.
http://www.yucky.com/

The Texas Teacher's Network: Links to many resources including "message boards" where you can post threaded questions and answers to other Texas educators:
http://texas.teachers.net

The Texas Education Network (TENET)
http://www.tenet.edu/

The Texas Education Agency's TEKS website
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks

Source for most of the information in the presentation, "Our Challenge as Educators in the Network Economy":
http://www.tcpd.org/tcpd/handouts.html
(under "Ian Jukes' Handouts, see "Born to Be Wired")

Information Literacy: A Clarification by Linda Langford
http://www.fno.org/oct98/clarify.html

Working the Web for Education: Theory and Practice on Integrating the Web for Learning by Tom March
http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

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