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EDUCATION PLANET NEWSLETTER (4/22/02-4/28/02) __________________________________________________________ The Education Planet Newsletter brings you this week's top educational sites, news stories and featured "Curriculum Corners" as selected by our team of teacher reviewers. Please visit the Education Planet site at http://www.educationplanet.com to access over 100,000 educational resources including 16,000 lesson plans. Note: Click here to view the newsletter in html format. http://www.educationplanet.com/weeklynewsletter/ __________________________________________________________ CONTENTS: What's New At Education Planet --New Lower Price for TEACHER WEB TOOLS This Week's Featured Curriculum Corner --Mars Planetary Lander Top Sites of the Week --Science: The National Information Center for Polymer Education --Mathematics: Slates, Sliderules, and Software: Teaching Math in America --Social Studies: History Globe.com --Language Arts: Phonetiks.org: Online Language Laboratory --Online Project: Dositey - Learning Site --Teaching Resources: A Vision Learning to Happen Top Educational News Stories --Student Behind Global Telescope Network --Study: Teens Want Small, Solid, Schools --NASA to Send Teacher Into Space in 2004 __________________________________________________________ SPONSOR: SpeekWithaGeek.com SpeakWithaGeek.com will help make the time you spend using your home or school computers more productive by providing live computer advice 24 hours a day. 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CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW! http://www.teacherwebtools.com __________________________________________________________ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED "CURRICULUM CORNER": Title: Mars Planetary Lander URL: http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/mars.html Resources for the Mars Planetary Lander and Deep Space 2 Projects __________________________________________________________ TOP SITES OF THE WEEK: SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCE Title: The National Information Center for Polymer Education URL: http://www.uwsp.edu/chemistry/polyed/ Grade Level: Grade Level: K-12+ Rating: * * * * * Content: Programs for K-12 Teachers, College/University Student, College/University Faculty, Gov't/Industry Professional; Teaching Resources for Polymer Overview, Polymers in Today's Workplace, Grades K-5, Grades 6-9, High School, College/University. Polymers are materials made up of macromolecules that have molecular weights that are above 5,000. Ok, you mean plastics? Yes, but there are many other types of materials that fall under this category of materials with large molecules such as naturally occurring substances DNA, silk, wool, rubber and cellulose. Synthetic materials such as polyester, nylon, polycarbonate, and synthetic rubber are also polymers. Learn all about these types of materials at this site. In the Teaching Resources section you will find background material, lesson plans, and hands-on activities for your classroom. SUBJECT AREA: MATHEMATICS Title: Slates, Sliderules, and Software: Teaching Math in America URL: http://americanhistory.si.edu/teachingmath/ Grade Level: 4-8 Rating: * * * * * Content: The Early Republic, The World Stage, The Cold War, The Information Age, Resources. Follow along and explore the history of math teaching in the United States at this website sponsored by the National Museum of American History. Starting in the colonies and continuing up to the present day, the history of math teaching is charted accompanied by web site and book references. Who were the important people who made a difference? What types of devices have been used? Be sure to not miss the Resources section which includes a list of excellent math education and history websites as well as print resources. SUBJECT AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES Title: History Globe.com URL: http://www.historyglobe.com/ Grade Level: 3-12 Rating: * * * * * Content: The Jamestown Online Adventure, The Oregon Trail - A Virtual Tour, Anglo-Apache Conflicts 1861-1886. The History Globe.com website presents interactive areas for three historical periods. The Anglo-Apache Conflicts section provides detailed information about the events as well as the people involved. Pressing the Assess buttons pops up a report form for students to fill out and print. The Oregon Trail section takes you on a virtual tour of the trail and presents detailed information and pictures for each site along the way. The newest area Jamestown Online Adventure takes students along as the colonists land in the new world. Students are asked to take part in the decisions that the colonists make as the colonization of Jamestown proceeds. How will their choices affect the course of the colony? SUBJECT AREA: LANGUAGE ARTS Title: Phonetiks.org: Online Language Laboratory URL: http://fonetiks.org/ Grade Level: 5-12+ Rating: * * * * * Content: Website Available in: Bahasa, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais, Italiano, Purtugues, and Japanese; Language Instruction Available for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Purtuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, and Thai; More Language Resource Learning to read a new language is often tough enough but then there is all that tricky pronunciation stuff to learn. This website provides a guide to the major pronunciations from each language. For several languages, there are also a series of variations included such as Australian, Canadian, British, Welsh, Irish, Scottish and American English. Additional language websites are listed on the More Language Resources page and language dictionaries can be accessed by clicking on the Country Flags on the main page. SUBJECT AREA: ONLINE PROJECT Title: Dositey - Learning Site URL: http://www.dositey.com/ Grade Level: K-8 Rating: * * * * * Content: Interactive Lessons, Games, Exercises, and Printable Worksheets for Language Arts and Mathematics, Online Educational Games, Worksheet Builder. Practice makes perfect so now you can have your students view interactive lessons here at the Dositey website and then continue to the interactive exercises. The math area includes basic arithmetic as well as number sense, measures, fractions, decimals, algebra, positive and negative numbers and math challenges. The Language Arts Area includes alphabet, phonics, spelling, reading and writing skills, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. There is also a free worksheet builder for teachers. SUBJECT AREA: TEACHING RESOURCES Title: A Vision Learning to Happen URL: http://www.implicity.com/index.htm Grade Level: K-12+ Rating: * * * * * Content: Learning About Learning to Learn: Publications, Essays and Presentations, Books and Journal Excerpts, Technology Models and Patents. The world is changing rapidly and this rate of change is only expected to increase in the future. Helping our students learn to learn will help prepare them for the world of the future. They will have to constantly work to stay up with their field in order to survive. This website provides extensive commentary on learning vs education and serves as a guide to teachers that are interested in Constructivism, Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, Multiple Intelligences, Information Theory, Critical Thinking, Self Esteem, and Social Responsibility. __________________________________________________________ TOP EDUCATIONAL NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK: Student Behind Global Telescope Network http://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/13/student.telescope.ap/ Study: Teens Want Small, Solid, Schools http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/11/school.climate.ap/ NASA to Send Teacher Into Space in 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/04/12/teacher.astronaut/ __________________________________________________________ TELL A FRIEND: PLEASE FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND! 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