Here are places to start looking for experts. *
Ask An Expert: http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html
From the New Jersey department of education comes this great site
with links to experts in all areas of expertise. Find an expert
by searching in the appropriate section of Science and Technology,
Medicine and Health, Computing and the Internet, History and Social
Studies, Economy and Marketing, Professionals, Personal and College
Advisors, Library Reference, Literature and Language Arts, or
Just out of Curiosity. The site also lists some other "Ask
an Expert" sites on the web.
NASA's Quest Project- Online
Interactive Projects: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive/
This site showcases the interactive online projects hosted by
NASA. Currently these include Women of NASA, Space Scientists
Online, Space Team Onlin, and Aero Design Team Online. These projects
allow students to share in the excitement of NASA's authentic
scientific and engineering pursuits like flying the shuttle and
International Space Station, exploring distant
planets with amazing spacecraft, and aeronautics/airplane research.
The focus of these projects is the enthusiastic people of NASA;
it is hoped that students will finish the project feeling like
they've met these interesting folks through chats, e-mail Q&A
and live audio/video programs.
The National Student Research
Center: http://youth.net/nsrc/nsrc.html
The National Student Research Center helps students from distant
schools have the opportunity to participate in cooperative student
research teams and interschool research projects, exchange scientific
data, query a support team of professionals about their topics
of study, and send research abstracts to the NSRC for publication
in its printed and electronic journals and databases of student
research. The site offers students the ability to publish their
scientific papers in the site's e-journal.
EarthWatch OnLine Resources: http://www.earthwatch.org/ed/olr/resources.html
As part of the Earthwatch Global Classroom, these people encourage
teachers and students to send in questions addressed to specific
Earthwatch Projects. Depending on the nature of your inquiry,
your question will be routed to the Center for Field Research
at Earthwatch, the Project Scientist, and/or an Earthwatch Teacher
Fellow who has worked on the project.Please be sure to check the
project's on-line resources such as the Mission Alert or Ground
Truth before posting a question. You may find your answers there.
Great Lakes Information
Network: http://www.great-lakes.net/
The Great Lakes Information Network, or GLIN, is a partnership
that provides one place online for people to find information
relating to the binational Great Lakes region of North America.
The site offers a wealth of data and information about the region's
environment and economy, tourism, education and more. Educators
and students will find all sorts of resources, including curriculum
guides, directories, interactive software and more. Be sure to
check out their E-mail Lists section at:
http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/listlist.html
GLIN hosts more than 50 e-mail lists on a range of topics.
Some are private
for people participating on certain groups or project teams; others
are public and open to anyone with an e-mail account. If you're
interested in creating a new Great Lakes list, contact the GLIN
webmaster.
Mathematics Center:
http://www.eduplace.com/math/indexlo.html
From Houghton Mifflin comes this site with the following major
sections: (1) Brain Teasers where you match your problem solving
skills against their series of challenging word puzzles; (2) Math
Project Watch where you can find other classrooms to participate
with you in a web project related to Mathematics; (3) Parent Handbook:
Help Your Child Understand Mathematics
which gives parents a wealth of ideas and resources to use with
their children; (4) Activity Search which is a database of classroom
activities by grade level and curriculum area; and (5) Math Links
- a directory of just math-related internet sites.
FRONTIERS Web site on PBS
Online http://www.pbs.org/saf/
On the Web site, you'll also find an array of activities and features
related to the show, including cool science projects for students,
opportunities to ask Alan or the scientists questions, links to
other science sites and resources, photos of Alan on location,
a teaching guide for classroom use, opinion polls, contests, surveys,
and much, much more!
Science Netlinks: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com
This is a great resource for teachers from American Association
for the Advancement of Science that can point you in the directionof
good science resources on the Internet. It includes activities
and a discussion board where you can pose questions.
America Dreams: http://www.internet-catalyst.org/projects/amproject/splash.html
As we near the dawn of a new Millennium, America Dreams creates
a timely forum for citizens to consider the dreams of our past,
the realities of the present and our hopes for the future. This
project, a collaborative effort by Leni Donlan and Kathleen Ferenz,
1997 Fellows, American Memory Program, Library of Congress, challenges
students to explore the American Dream from three perspectives:
As historian, as celebrant, as storyteller. The site includes
teachers' notes, calendar of events, internet relay chat, CU-SeeMe,
and Wall of Dreams.
Society of Wetland Scientists:
http://www.sws.org/index.html
The Society of Wetland Scientists is a non-profit organization
founded in 1980 to promote wetland science and the exchange of
information related to wetlands. This is their site and it contains
a motherlode of material, information, and access to experts on
the subject of wetlands including a great set of wetland links
at: Wetland Related Sites http://www.sws.org/wetlandweblinks.html
ePALS Classroom Exchange http://www.epals.com/
"Connect with classrooms from 96 countries speaking 98 languages.
11,884 classrooms, representing more than 850,000 students, are
now registered with ePALS!" Started in 1996 as Email Classroom
Exchange, this site has grown from 10 classrooms in 4 countries
to be the world's largest and most active epal network of wired
schools. By connecting with other classrooms around the world,
students and teachers K-12 are able to gain a sense of what every-day
life is like in a foreign country as well as connect with other
classrooms for teacher-monitored school projects. A great resource
to have.
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