Science Sites
Here are some science sites submitted by computer mentors and tech support people in Charlottetown from Feb-May 2001.
An interesting site is:
www.scorecard.org/pollutionwatch/about/txt/media_centre.html
--see who is polluting in any neighborhood in Canada.
SPACE
A NASA site with science educational resources for
grades 1-12. Excellent.
www.nasa.gov/
A site for older kids:
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/
A site for younger kids:
kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
A site for kids to earn their own "merit badges" (for Scouts,
but could be used by anybody.):
www.execpc.com/~culp/space/space.html
A CNN interactive site on shuttle missions:
www.cnn.com/TECH/space/shuttle.html
A NASA educational website with links to a broad range of space themed
websites:
aag.org/Education/Nasawebsites.html
I know, I know, there are hundreds of great NASA sites, but
here's one more anyway. It lets you look at any object in the solar system
from a vantage point other than earth, using real and simulated graphics--and
at whatever time day/month/year you choose to see it.
space.jpl.nasa.gov/
OIL SPILLS
The following site has lots of information on oil spills.
www.oilspill.state.ak.us/history/history.htm
Bird Migration Sites
Here is an awesome site.
www.ducks.ca/geese/
These sites were found by Jamie Trainor, one of our SchoolNet Employees.
The Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries Site Israel is a large migrating
birds center. It is located in Asia, on the seashore between Europe and
Africa. Therefore all the species that migrate from Europe to Africa have
to be passing through Israel. This site tracks migrating birds and contains
explanations about them.
www.birds.org.il/
Spring Migration of Birds in Nebraska
This site talks about Nebraska and the spring Migration of birds
there.
ngp.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/homesprg.html
Migration of Birds
This site is a review of literature, as it existed in the early 1970's,
on the history, habits, routes, and patterns of bird migration throughout
North America and parts of Europe.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/migratio/migratio.htm
Bird Migration Facts - National Audubon Society
Audubon presents a multi - media exploration of bird migration.
north.audubon.org/facts.html
Birds - Migration and Photography
This site is about birds, bird migration and photography. Photo stocks,
bird watching, books, reports, alerts, maps, and other bird migratory information.
www.nanana.com/birdmigration.html
Wild Wings: Heading North
This site is a site where you can track the northward migration of
10 snow geese on the net.
north.audubon.org/
Jaybat's Birds Ahoy! -- Birds-of-Prey Page of Links
This page from Birds Ahoy ! contains links to web sites with information
about raptors and other birds of prey.
www.jaybat.com/birdsahoy/hawks/
Birds: Breeding and Migration
This site is about the Breeding and Migration of birds.
www.subbooks.demon.co.uk/birdsbm.htm
Learn About the Fascinating Migration of Wild Birds at Wild Birds Forever
This site is a site where you can learn about the fascinating migration
habits of wild birds compliments of Wild Birds forever.
www.birdsforever.com/migrate.html
Migration of Birds
This site is about Migration of Birds and the origin and evaluation
of migration.
members.tripod.com/~SirOrfeo/idtraining/oem.htm
BIRDS: Migration Status in Texas
This site is about the Migration Status in Texas.
www.edc.org/INT/EEPP/birdsnet/0056.html
Migration across South Carolina - Early Birds
This is a web site that tracks the progress of avian migration across
South Carolina and reports on the occurrence of seasonal residents in non
- migratory seasons.
www.conterra.com/dsbailey/earlybird.html
Migration Adaptations
This site is about Migration Adaptations.
www.sfgate.com/getoutside/1996/dec/migrate-adapt.html
Bird Cast: Why You Should Care
This site is a site about predicting bird migration patterns with
radar, enabling a better understanding of the location of critical stopover
habitats.
www.birdcast.org/whycare.html
Synchronies is a software program that no computer teachers
should be without!" (quoted from Ted Johnston) Take a look!
www.smarttech.com/synchroneyes
Try this site and do a search for drugs....some lessons may be for older
kids but maybe you can adapt!
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
The Southern Kings web page has a lot of great things on it that you
might be able to use in your schools. There are numerous great search engines
here. I hope this is useful!
www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/index.htm
WOW! It has dinosaur everything, there are fact pages, coloring
pages, quizzes, puzzles, calendars everything you can think of. You gotta
look....Also, I found a multilingual dictionary there. It has Eng, Fr,
Spanish, Portuguese etc.
www.enchantedlearning.com
To find 700 sites on various educational disciplines, go to :
www.ala.org/parentspage/great
sites
I went to two great ones for the junior high level:
www.chem4kids.com/
www.kapili.com/physics4kids/index.html
There are links as well to astronomy, geography, biology , technology
and more.
Mapping Websites
Try this one; it is pretty good.
www.freetrip.com
I have two sites.
www.mapquest.com
www.infospace.com
-Choose Maps/Directions
I hope that one of these will be useful!
www.transcanadahighway.com
www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/dest.htm
FANTASTIC site on SPIDERS!!! for elementary students
and teachers.
www.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm
Check who's polluting in your area!
www.PollutionWatch.org
If you have Real Player:
www.exn.ca/Bugs/home.cfm
Here's an interesting website that includes activities/games
such as trying to figure out what dinosaur head belongs on the skeleton,
dinosaur puzzles, and figuring out with the use of detective clues which
animals are actually dinosaurs. It's connected to the Carnegie Museum:
www.clpgh.org/cmnh/discovery/
Possibly everyone has a hundred websites like these ones, but
anyway...
www.glavac.com/topeducatorsites.htm
--large collection of websites annotated by a teacher who claims
these sites have made his/her teaching "easier rather than harder"
and are "worth the most precious commodity a teacher has...time."
www.harvesthomeeducators.com/jobopp.htm
Here's a site of educational and resource websites organized
on a variety of topics. Worth a look.
Here is a site with links to supplement the APEF Biology curriculum; probably
best for the high school level.
www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/selig/AP/AP_Horton%20links.htm
Here are some geography sites aimed specifically at schools; Hope
they're useful to someone!
home.iSTAR.ca/~whamilto/
www.statcan.ca/english/edu/index.htm
agc.bio.ns.ca/EarthNet/
Here are some sites on map-making:
www.mapquest.com
ceonet.cgdi.gc.ca/cs/en/index.html
www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/
And a dinosaur website:
www.tyrrellmuseum.com
Another science website:
scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/
Hi everyone! Just wanted to tell you all about a great site with
lots of great resources. Select the theme page option. The theme pages
are filled with teaching resources and tons of excellent links.
www.cln.org
I have found two websites that I think are pretty useful:
This website allows you to create rubrics and then print them off.
There are choices for language arts, science, and media assignments from
grades K-12.
www.4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml
Oceanography Websites
The Franklin Institute Science Museum offers an Undersea
and Oversea (study of the ocean) site. It's located at:
www.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html
Lots of fun for students to go through and answer trivia.
www.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/neptune/htm
May also want to check out this link:
ioc.unesco.org/iyo/classroom/an_endangered_world.htm
Look for stuff at this link
school.discovery.com/
This includes a science fair link which might help someone.
www.discoveryschool.com
Here is the Education web site:
www.upei.ca/~fac_ed/projects/Student/reslinks.html
Hi everyone! I hope things are going well. I found an excellent website
yesterday....it has great tutorials for teachers, students. It also has
lesson plans...check it out!
www.2Learn.ca
An excellent science site, and caters to all grade levels with
a wide range of topics. I hope you find it useful.
scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/
Here's one from the UPEI education web site, and it's a list
of great resources for links, lesson plans, etc
www.upei.ca/~fac_ed/projects/Student/reslinks.html
Terrific website of K - 12 lesson plans (all subjects), as well
as other technology in the classroom info. It's the Community Learning
Network site from BC.
www.cln.org/
Here are some more Science sites:
Ideas for Science Fair Projects