NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 30 Nov 2000 - Special issue (#2000-374)
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Topics in this special issue:
1. PROJ> Project: Landmark Game
2. K12> Discovery's Ancient Civilizations Shows
3. K12> Website: NetDay Compass
4. K12> NASA Educational Workshops
5. K12>: [netsites] Ask A Biologist
6. K12> [netsites] Help Your Child Improve in Test Taking
7. MISC> [netsites] Essays on Science and Society
8. MISC> [netsites] sites4moms
9. MISC> [netsites] Weather at the North Pole
10. RESOUR> [netsites] Space Shuttle News Reference Manual
11. K12> [netsites] Youth and Children's Resource
12. RESOUR> [netsites] Christmas Around the World
13. MISC> [EdResource] The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts
14. K12> Re: student-written web pages
15. K12> HIT:Holiday Websites for Countries & Cultures
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:25:40 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: PROJ> Project: Landmark Game
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:25:01 -0800
From: Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher <tea...@CLASSROOM.COM>
Subject: Project: Landmark Game
To: C...@LISTSERV.CLASSROOM.COM
************************Landmark Game 2001 Announcement ********************
I am happy to be moderating the landmark game again this year. This is
actually my eighth year. It's hard to believe! It seems like yesterday. I
am looking forward to meeting new participants as well as renewing old
friendships as we play the game.
To participate
To participate you must send in your Four Response Questions to Kidlink and
subscribe to the Kidproj listserv. All correspondence for the game will take
place on the Kidproj listserv. To subscribe to Kidproj send a message to the
listerv.
Address: list...@listserv.nodak.edu
subject: Blank
Body: subscribe kidproj (your name)
Summary:
Choose a Landmark any where in the world. Have your students research facts
concerning the landmark and compose nine interesting clues. Three clues per
week will be posted by the landmark moderator to the Kidproject board over a
three week period. All registered schools can ask one question per week
which requires a yes or no answer to each clue posting school. At the end of
the three weeks the school which guessed the most landmarks will be declared
the winner!
Timeline:
Registration
January 1 to January 8, 2001
Phase I -Letter of Introduction
January 8 to January 15, 200
Phase II - Compose Clues
January 15 to February 1, 2001-
Phase III - Game Time
February 5 to February 26, 200
Phase IV - Make Your Guesses
February 26 to March 4 , 2001- Send one e-mail message to the landmark
moderator containing the name of each particiating school and your guess for
their landmark. This message must be in the hands of the moderator by
midnight March 5.
March 5, 1999 - The game is officially over midnight March 3 and a winner
will be announced by March 12. The moderator will post a list of each
school's final tally to the kidproject board. A list of all the schools and
their landmarks will also be posted at this time.
Reminders:
All participants must be a member of the KIGPROJ listerv. All communication
for the project will take place on the KIDPROJ board.
Send registration to - land...@ga.k12.pa.us - not the Kidproject board.
Send your nine clues to the landmark moderator by February 1 -
land...@ga.k12.pa.us
Send all questions to the posting school. You will have a list of each
participants email address from the list being sent by G.A. Add each
participating schools email address to the address book of your mail program
and then it will be handy through out the game.
Send your guesses to the landmark moderator by March 5-
land...@ga.k12.pa.us.
Registration: (Do not send the name of your landmark)
School Name
Address
Phone
Contact person name
Contact person email
School URL
Reflection
This project brought excitement and enthusiasm to our classroom, our school
and to the learning process. It allowed me to be the guide on the side
instead of the sage on the stage as my students organized the game, used
both public and private e-mail to send the announcement and all the
correspondence. They wrote and worked in small groups as they not only
researched the clues for our landmark but researched the clues submitted by
the participating schools. As the clues came in weekly my students posted
them to boards in our classroom and to a general board in the students
cafeteria and teacher's lounge so that many students and teachers throughout
the school participated. They submitted questions each week to the
participating schools, helped participating schools with questions of
organization or rules which needed to be clarified, submitted our guesses to
partcipating schools and kept a tally of all landmarks guessed correctly by
setting up a data base.
This project has many wonderful aspects. It not only crosses the curriculum
areas allowing students to call on their writing, problem solving, critical
thinking, map reading and organizational skills but it also crosses grade
levels and cultures. As you can see from the participant list elementary,
middle and high school students from around the world participated as
equals.
Game URL http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/~carol/landmark.html
Regards,
CArol Siwiinski
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:26:05 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> Discovery's Ancient Civilizations Shows
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:26:36 -0800
From: Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher <tea...@CLASSROOM.COM>
Subject: Discovery's Ancient Civilizations Shows
To: C...@LISTSERV.CLASSROOM.COM
Are you teaching about Ancient civilizations and digging around for just the
right resource to add some pizzazz to your lesson plans? Look no further
than the Discovery Channel and its award winning series created for teachers
ASSIGNMENT DISCOVERY. You can take off your pith helmet and tape the
following programs on Discovery Channel from 9 - 10 a.m. ET/PT. All are
copyright-cleared for one year and commercial-free:
The Great Wall of China
(Monday 12/4/01)
Europe and Asia: Horse Warriors
Spartan Warriors
Viking Warriors
(Tuesday 12/5/01)
Zimbabwe: The Lost City of Africa
In Search of the Maya
(Wednesday 12/6/01)
Discover Magazine: The Earliest Immigrants
Discover Magazine: Sky Watchers
(Thursday 12/7/01)
Ancient Inventions: City Life
(Friday 12/8/01)
Put down your shovel and pick up your videotape to discover these great
classroom resources which include; lesson plans, discussion questions,
activities and content rich Internet sites.
All these resources are just a click of the mouse away at:
http://school.discovery.com/ontv/themes/ancientcivilizations.html
Be sure to visit the Conversations area at Discovery Channel School where
you can bring up issues facing your classroom and get feedback from your
colleagues or swap teaching ideas on timely topics.
http://school.discovery.com/conversations/shoptalk.html
Gary Carmichael
Discovery Channel School Teacher
Ancient Civilizations
http://discoveryschool.com
mailto:ga...@discoveryschool.com
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:26:25 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> Website: NetDay Compass
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:53:41 -0800
From: Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher <tea...@CLASSROOM.COM>
Subject: Website: NetDay Compass
To: C...@LISTSERV.CLASSROOM.COM
I wanted to share this site that was developed by the staff at NetDay. It is
called the NetDay Compass site at http://www.netdaycompass.org
The site is described as;
a site to help educators "think beyond" the technical connections of
computers and the Internet to educational results.
The central feature of NetDayCompass is a directory of high-quality
educational resources designed to help schools maximize technology
investments. These resources help you make smart decisions about technology
planning, infrastructure, funding, and classroom support. The "Real
Stories-Best Practices" section highlights the experiences of other
technology decision-makers-their stories provide perspective on what works
(and what doesn't!) in schools.
Laurel Lipsick
mailto:lau...@ctnba.org
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:29:59 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> NASA Educational Workshops
From: BBr...@aol.com
To: K12A...@listserv.syr.edu, ed...@lists.umass.edu, d...@egroups.com
Subject: NASA Educational Workshops
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:07:30 -0800
NASA Educational Workshops (NEW) model the integration of the national
standards in science, mathematics, geography, and technology. Educators
will be provided with with an opportunity to observe NASA's state-of-the-art
research and development through direct interaction with NASA scientists,
engineers, technicians, and educational specialists at a NASA Field Center.
Translation activities are incorporated into the workshop to help teachers
adapt their new content knowledge, experience, and materials into their
specific educational situations.
Selected participants will spend two weeks in the summer at one of NASA's
Centers. Travel, housing, and meal expenses are provided by NASA. Graduate
credit is available. The two-week workshops occur during mid-June through
mid-August. Participants will be notified by April 15th of their NASA Center
assignment and workshop dates.
Eligibility
All applicants must:
- be citizens of the United States;
- be certified;
- instruct full time in public or private schools in the U.S., the U.S.
territories, Department of Defense Dependant Schools, Department of State
Overseas Schools, or Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools;
- have a minimum of three years teaching experience;
- instruct at the K-6 grade levels; or
- instruct mathematics, science, geography, or technology at the K-12 grade
level; or
- serve students at the K-12 grade level as a media specialist, resource
teacher, or curriculum specialist with a special interest in mathematics,
science, geography, or technology;
SUBMIT THE ORIGINAL AND TWO COPIES OF THE ENTIRE APPLICATION PACKAGE:
PARTS A AND B (I-IV) TO NSTA NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 20.
All workshops are conducted in English.
Previous applicants are encouraged to reapply, however, previous
participants are ineligible.
APPLICATION: To apply, print out the Adobe Acrobat version of the brochure
(pdf) or the web page application (html) and complete it. You may also save
the application as a text file to your word-processing program.
Original application and two copies must be received by NSTA no later than
February 20. Send to
NASA Educational Workshops
NSTA
1840 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201-3000.
The Educational CyberPlayGround <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
New York Times, USA Today, MSNBC Hot Site Pick Awards
[DUC]Diversity University Collaboratory ISSN:1529-7861
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html>
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:38:09 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12>: [netsites] Ask A Biologist
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Ask A Biologist
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:27:13 -0800
"Arizona State University's question and answer resource for K-12
students and their instructors."
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://www.ashlists.org/
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:39:12 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Help Your Child Improve in Test Taking
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Help Your Child Improve in Test Taking
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:34:29 -0800
U.S. Department of Education presents...
"Help Your Child Improve in Test Taking"
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/TestTaking/index.html
"A brief resource that parents and students can use to help reduce test
anxiety. Provides basic Do and Don'ts of test taking and other ideas
how to make tests not so stressful."
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://www.ashlists.org/
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:38:55 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Essays on Science and Society
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Essays on Science and Society
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:31:09 -0800
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/150essay.shl
"In monthly essays on Science and Society, Science features the views
of individuals from inside or outside the scientific community as they
explore the interface between science and the wider society. This
series continues the weekly viewpoints on science and society that
Science published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of AAAS."
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://www.ashlists.org/
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:38:28 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] sites4moms
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] sites4moms
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:28:12 -0800
"Choose from a variety of website reviews on parenting, education,
recipes, working moms, crafts and insights into the mother's heart. A
valuable resource for finding wholesome information for everyday living."
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://www.ashlists.org/
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:40:02 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Weather at the North Pole
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Weather at the North Pole
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:45:46 -0800
Pretty soon your thoughts will turn to the weather at the North Pole.
We begin to wonder how Santa Claus is getting along in his neck of the
woods. :-)
weather.com (The Weather Channel online site) has a special page for
just this purpose as well as other holiday services:
http://www.weather.com/holidays/index.html
You can check the weather at the North Pole; find out about historic
probabilities of "White Christmas'"; see special holiday maps; interact
with others in the message boards; special seasonal shopping
suggestions; see the holiday cam set up to view NYC residents during
the holidays; and much more...
Alan
ASHa...@ASHLists.org
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:40:29 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Space Shuttle News Reference Manual
From: Curt Davis <cu...@curtdavis.com>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Space Shuttle News Reference Manual
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:47:58 -0800
http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/sts/newsref/stsref-toc.html
A great information source for NASA's space shuttle program. Learn
all about shuttle missions, from the start to Challenger's accident,
to mission preparation and pre-launch operations.
--
http://www.curtdavis.com
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:41:20 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Youth and Children's Resource
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Youth and Children's Resource
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:53:04 -0800
"Everything for children, youth, parents, teachers and youth workers.
Resources from Streetcats Foundation for Youth and National Childrens
Coalition."
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://www.ashlists.org/
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:41:51 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Christmas Around the World
From: Curt Davis <cu...@curtdavis.com>
To: nets...@egroups.com
Subject: [netsites] Christmas Around the World
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:01:38 -0800
http://www.christmas.com/worldview
"Award-winning site for parents and kids. Check your naughty or
nice rating. Play games in Elf School. Print your Honorary Elf
Diploma. Christmas recipes. Choose and name your Elf Buddy. E-mail
Santa Claus. See Santa's amazing Magnetic Kinetic Hulla-Ballu toy-
making machine. Holiday Karaoke. Track Santa's journey Christmas Eve.
Count how many cookies he eats. Wonderful illustrations. Uniquely creative."
--
http://www.curtdavis.com
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:54:35 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: MISC> [EdResource] The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts
To: edres...@egroups.com
From: John Walker <jwa...@hwcn.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:36:15
Subject: [EdResource] The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts
The Net, Issue #15
http://www.themestream.com/articles/250913
Click on:
Seen on the Web
North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective
The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts
Roanoke Island, located off the NE coast of North Carolina, is some 12
miles long and 3 miles wide. The island is the site of the earliest
English colony in North America (see map). The first group of colonists
landed on Roanoke Island in August of 1585 but, returned to England a year
later, in 1586. A second group of colonists, arriving in 1587, mysteriously
disappeared and not a single colonist was found by the time additional
supplies were brought from England in 1591. Historians have long wondered
about the fate of those colonists, who became known as the Lost Colony of
Roanoke.
Some light has been shed on this mystery by a group of scientists who
used the rings of baldcypress trees (Taxodium distichum) to reconstruct
the history of drought for this region.
More... http://www.themestream.com/articles/250913
Please feel free to pass this great resource along to others.
John Walker, Publisher, The Net
mailto:jwa...@hwcn.org
More at: http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker/thenet.htm
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:55:19 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> Re: student-written web pages
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:46:46 -0500
From: Liz Dunbar <edu...@GREENMOUNT.ORG>
Subject: Re: student-written web pages
To: WWW...@LISTS.LIGHTSPAN.COM
Over half our 2200+ page high school website is student-created pages,
which predictably vary widely in quality. However, the IB ITGS project
sites are pretty good and many are based on web research. Take a look at
http://baltimorecitycollege.org/ib/itgs.htm#proj
The most web-research-intensive project sites are All About Stress and
Programming Guide for High School Math, but most of these projects involved
some degree of web research.
Most of the other student-created pages are in the Athletics, Activities,
and CourseWeb sections of the school website; they're generally at least
competent if not spectacular in most cases.
Liz Dunbar
Technology Coordinator, Teacher, and Webmaster
edu...@BaltimoreCityCollege.org ... Baltimore City College ... Baltimore
MD USA
http://BaltimoreCityCollege.org ... edu...@greenmount.org
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:56:33 -0600
From: Gleason Sackmann <gsac...@classroom.com>
Subject: K12> HIT:Holiday Websites for Countries & Cultures
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:46:45 -0800
From: Charlotte Poole <cpo...@REMC11.K12.MI.US>
Subject: HIT:Holiday Websites for Countries & Cultures
To: LM_...@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Thanks for all your input. Here are some great websites that were
recommended by LM-Netters
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/pages/departments/media/holiday.html
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/winterholidays.shtml
http://www.infotaft.marioncity.k12.oh.us/ss.html#hol
http://www.websterschools.org/classrooms/state_library/hirschler.html
check out mikids.com - great site!
Go To Yahooligans - Christmas Around the World
--
Charlotte Poole
Middle School Library Media Specialist
Lakeshore Middle School
1459 W. John Beers Road
Stevensville, MI 49127
e-mail -cpo...@remc11.k12.mi.us
phone-(616)428-1408
fax-(616)428-1571
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