Hoboken Summer Institute
August 8, 2005
K-12

Today's workshop will serve as an introduction to various unique and compelling Internet resources.  Participants will see examples of collaborative and real time data projects, as well as Ask-an Expert sites.

Consulting Experts in the Field

One simple way to incorporate the Internet into classroom lessons is to utilize experts in appropriate fields to answer your students' toughest questions.

• Ask Dr. Universe
• Ask Thomas Jefferson
• School World Zoo Experts
• Ask Dr. Universe
• The Wild Ones Scientists' Network
• Scientific American
• Ask a Biologist and Mystery Images (Arizona State University)
• CIESE As-an-Expert Links

• Exploration of Unique and Compelling Internet Applications
• Bucket Buddies  Are the organisms found in pond water the same all over the world?
• Movie in the Making
• Human Genetics Project
• Square of Life Study plants, animals, and non-living objects found in your school yard

• Kids' Network (TERC) - Web based projects for grades 2-8
• Houghton Mifflin Project Center
• Pigeon Watch
• Create A Graph
• Graph (Excel)
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
• Flat Stanley
• Sands of the World - Earth Science
• Co-nect Classroom Projects

• Introduction to Internet-based Real Time Data
• Wonderful World of Weather
• The Weather Underground
• Musical Plates
• Interactive Weather (National Weather Service)
• CIESE List of Real Time Data Sites

Web Cams

• The Elecam
• Peregrine Falcon Cams
• San Diego Zoo Panda Cam
• Kennedy Center
• Leonard's Cam World

Reference

• Purportal - The bunk stops here
• NJ Core Curriculum Standards
• Refdesk.com
• The Quotations Page