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Contents:
- Review of Science Goals
- Science Sites and Searches
-Earth
and Space Science
-Life Science
-Physical
Science
- How to capture and save pictures, text and pages
Science Learning Outcomes for Grades K though Seven
Science Learning Outcomes from the Ministry of Ed. SiteAccording to the Ministry, schools should be building a foundation for the scientific literacy of citizens, for the development of a highly skilled and adaptable work force, and the development of new technologies.
We should develop science programs that help students:
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Communicating Scientifically draw conclusions share insights defend opinions debate discuss limitations of their work raise questions extend keep logs reinforce record data consolidate ideas report data
Using Science make connections solve problems explain ideas examining current issues apply ideas
Acting Responsible influence change design ways to solve problems define problems understand the impact of science
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| Starting places for Science on the Net |
Note: Go here to get good general information on Search Engines
Go here
for a quick lesson on how to improve your searching.
Yahoo Science Index(General Listings of all kinds of science)
Frank Potter's Science Gems K-Post High school (very impressive) Primary Teachers there is material here for you too!
Ask Dr. Universe All of the answers to all of the questions! Kid Friendly!
Interactive Science Lots of different levels and kinds. Requires Shockwave, down load it here
Nasa's On Line Resources for Educators Lots of material and links to other resources
National Science Teachers Association Science Links Page Endless material here, all good quality.
Lesson Plans from Newton's Apple PBS Science show ...good material here, lots of levels
Ask ERIC Science Lesson Plans Organized by subject
Media Links from the Dept. Ed Nova Scotia
Encarta Science Lesson Plans
K-12 Science Lesson Plans
Bad Science before you teach science check this page out, things NOT to teach
National Science Teachers Association Links More links to more pages
Science Websites by topic Several sites per topic
Study Web's Science Index 22 different main topics, each link is described and rated
Science Fair Information Good outline for students wishing to do a science project for a science fair
Science Sites
by topic Lots of material
(C) = Content related - information on the topic for teachers or students
(I) = Interactive - Ask a expert type(for information on how to ask an expert go here) do something on line
(S) = Source, -actual data, current weather or earthquake activity
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Weather
Grade 7
Learning Outcome
20 - Assess the impact of chemical pollution on a local environment
Description: sight with solid content on El Nino and La Nina.
excellent colorful charts,
diagrams and animation. For both teacher and student.
Space
Grant Grade level 6/7
23 - Identify the human and technological requirements for space
exploration
24 - List the contributions that space exploration has made to everyday
life
25 - Describe Canada's contribution to space exploration
26 - Evaluate piloted space exploration in comparison with unpiloted
exploration
Good general site for 6/7 Space science - the main bonus - lots
of hands-on activities that
look pretty easy to take and use.
Earth history Grade
level 6/7
Description
Building a timeline for earth history. Students are grouped into
eras and the internet is used to gather information.
Astronomy Question and Answer Site (University of Virginia) (I)
Eric's Treasure Trove of Astronomy More than you could ever want to know (C)
Cal Tech's
Earthquake of the Day (S)
The Electric Volcano has a listserv address as well as lots of visual data, photos, maps and data
Pictures of Earth form Space Clickable maps
The Nine Planets tons of info Gr 5/7 (S)
Star Child Project WoW! Two levels Primary and Intermediate (C)
NASA The Ultimate Space Stop!
Control a Robotic Telescope Grade 6/7 (I)
SeaWifs the ocean as see by NASA tons of maps and data (S)
Ocean Planet by The Smithsonian lesson plans, fact sheets, and more (S) Gr6/7
Tropical
Storm Tracker real time info on current storms (I)
| Life Science |
Body
systems Grade 4
Learning Outcomes
Describe the basic structure and function of the skeletal and muscular
systems
Description: sight with great pictures of all systems/ parts of
the body. Teacher and child
orientated
Cell Site Looks like about a Grade 6 level, good descriptions of difficult words, easy to navigate (C)
Ecology Grade 6/7 deals with biomes, populations, food chains (C)
Biological Chemistry Grade 6 level (C)
Circulatory system Grade 6 (C)
Composting Page Grade 3/4 and up (C)
Senses Site Grade 7 and up (C)
Anatomy Lesson Plans from AskEric by grade level (C)
Virtual Frog Dissection (no frogs were harmed in the making of this site!) (I)
Nervous System for Kids Grade 6/7 (C)
Butterfly Life Cycle and Coloring Page Grade 3/4 (I)
U.S. Geological Survey information on ecology and how humans change the environment
Exploratorium hands on requires Shockwave (I)
Interactive Science
Mysteries Grade 6/7 (I)
| Physical Science |
How Stuff Works Grade
4
Learning Outcomes:
20 - Manipulate simple machines to determine their characteristics
and uses
21 - Compare the uses of simple machines today with those in the
past
22 - Operate simple machines to demonstrate their usefulness in
everyday life
Description:
Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what
makes the inside of
your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you!
Biographies
of Scientists
-this site has short biographies of famous scientists related to
the field of energy such as Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein
(C)
Chem4Kids Grade 5/6 (C)
Eric's Treasure Trove of Chemistry Grade 7 and up, teacher background too, Tons of data (C)
Periodic Table (S)
Water Science Good
site, well organized
Salmonid enhancement project by Jeremy Sumner
Grade
Seven Science by Kirk Coleman, content and hands on ideas
by learning outcome
To be able to get back to a site:
-When you end up at a site you like and you want to be able to get back there choose Bookmark in Netscape(Favorites in Explorer) This records the address (URL) in the bookmark file. Next time you want to go to that site, click on bookmarks and choose the one you want to go to.
To capture an image:
- Any image that you find on
the web can be captured by clicking with the right hand button of the mouse
on the image that you want. This will also work for background images
as well. Just right click on the background.
- When you right click
on the image (or background) you get a box that pops up with lots of choices
in it. The choice that you want is Save
Image as or
Save Background as. When you
choose this, you will be asked where you want to save a copy of the image
to. Pay attention to where you save it so you can find it again!
To capture some text:
- The quickest way to capture a paragraph or two is to highlight what you
want to copy by holding the left mouse button down and moving the cursor
over the text you want to copy. When you do this it "highlights"
the text.
-Next, go up to Edit
and choose Copy.
This holds the text that you highlighted until you copy something else.
A keyboard shortcut for copy is Control
C.
-Start up a word processor such as Microsoft Works, open a blank page and
paste the text you copied by going up to Edit
and choosing Paste
(Keyboard shortcut Control V).
-A handy keyboard shortcut is Alt
Tab. Holding down the Alt button
and hitting Tab switches you between your programs.
To save the whole page:
- Go to File and choose Save as. You will be asked where you want to save a copy of the page, make sure that you pay attention to where you save it so that you can find it again! Note: when you do this you won't get the pictures, you need to save them separately.
Send a copy of a page using E-mail:
To send yourself or someone else a page via E-mail, choose File and Send Page. This will send a copy of the page as an attachment in an E-mail message.
Note: the drive names may be different at your school, but they all work on the same basis.
There are several drives (places to save information) on your lab.
The "A" drive - is
the disk drive in the station you are sitting at, saving here puts information
on a disk to take
with you.
The "C" drive -
is the hard drive at the station that you are at. Anything saved
here will only be saved on that
computer and no where else.
The "D" drive -
is the CD ROM drive on the machine that your are at.
The "H" drive is
your personal space. No one else can access your space on the system.
It is your home drive.
The "W" drive
- is the public drive. Anything saved here can be accessed by anyone
else who can log on to
your lab.
Labs also have many other drives, but for the
most part unless you are the lab administrator you won't deal with
these.
The Public Drive
The public drive is a very useful part of your schools computer lab. Here you can post information that all of your students can access. For example, if you have web pages that you want your students to explore, put the links in a web page and save that page in the public drive. You can also gather information yourself, and save it to the public drive as text, images, or a web page. Once saved in the public drive, students can use a browser like Netscape to look at the links or other information and because you are live on the net, the links will work.
Your Network Administrator can set up a folder for you on the public drive. Keep all of the material for your class in your own folder. The Network Administrator can also help you to set up who you want to access your folder on the public drive, perhaps just your class will have access. The drive can also be set so that only your class can make changes to the material on the drive but the rest of the users can still look at it.
Here is an example of the uses of the public drive.
My class was exploring the Inca's ( ok I know that not science but you get the idea ) they searched the Net using a variety of search engines. When a student found a good page they would copy the URL of the page to a word processor page that was saved in the public drive. Each time they copied and pasted a new address onto the word processor file, they would save it back to the public drive. After we had 10 -15 URL's, I converted the word processor page to a web page using Netscape Composer. I saved this web page back to the public drive and all of the class now had a web page with lots of links to choose from. We did this in about 15 minutes.
Intranets
The public drive can act as an "intranet" at your
school. You can save any information that you want there. The
students can then go there to gather information that you have selected.
It can be the data itself or links to web pages or any combination that
you want.
To start with you need to open a blank page in Composer.
Go to:
File
New
Blank Page
Remember, Alt
Tab will quickly switch you from here to composer
once it is opened. Also, at the bottom of the screen the Composer
icon has the little pen in the corner and Communicator has the ships wheel.
Formatting Toolbar
To type in text, just treat Composer like
a word processor. You can choose you font, size and color in the
dropdown box that says Variable Width
as a default. The font size is in the box with the 12
and the box to the right with black
in it is the color choice. The three "A's"
to the right are bold, italic and underline
. The next two icons add bullets,
either dots or numbers. The last three icons are alignment controls.
The center control is in the last icon. Click
on it to drop it down and then choose the center icon.
Composition Toolbar
In the tool bar there are two main items for
you to know about. One is the H.Line
this will draw a horizontal line to help you to organize your material.
The other one is the Link button. This
will be the major one that you need to know about.
Highlight the test or image that you want to be a link. Choose
the Link icon from the tool bar, in the Link
to space type or copy and paste the URL for the site you want to link to.
Make sure that you have the http:// at the start. You can also link
to a html file on your local system. When finished just hit enter.
For a good look at what composer can do and how to make use of it open it up by choosing Communicator in the menu and then choosing Page composer. Then choose Help and then Help Contents. This provides a good overview.
About Composer
Netscape Composer integrates powerful What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) document creation capabilities into Netscape Communicator's already rich set of World Wide Web features. In addition to electronic mail, threaded discussion group, and file transfer features included in Communicator, Composer makes composing for the Web, email, or newsgroups a simple cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop process.
The document creation capabilities in Composer are designed to provide both experienced and beginning content creators with a simple yet powerful solution for editing and publishing online documents. WYSIWYG editing allows first-time users to create dynamic online documents easily and publish them to local file systems and remote servers with ease.
There are a lot of things you can do with Composer:
Work in a WYSIWYG environment.
You can see the results of paragraph and font tags
applied as you type.
Add, remove and modify text.
Click on any part of a downloaded Web page and immediately
work with text and images.
Drag-and-Drop.
Drag-and-drop hyperlinks and images from the bookmark,
mail, news, or browse
windows, to a document in the editor (Windows and MacOS
only). You can also drag an HTML or image
file from the Windows File Manager (Explorer in Windows
95) and drop it in an edit window.
Publish your documents on the Internet.
Simplify the process of posting pages to a server by
using one
button to copy your files from your local hard disk
to a remote directory or server.
Format text to suit your needs.
You can apply paragraph and character styles to text just
as you would in your favorite word processing
application.
Change font, font size and color.
Use these features to create pages that focus a reader's
attention where you want.
Include objects in your pages.
You can insert tables, images, horizontal lines, and
hyperlinks in the Web documents you create.