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Space Weather High School Hub   Teaching the News Periodic Table of Comics

Science Fair Links  Geometry in Our World 2002 Olympics Teaching Resources

Above: This six-day animation (Nov. 23-29) shows sunspot 9715 expanding and approaching the center of the Sun. Credit: SOHO. [From SpaceWeather.com]

http://www.spaceweather.com/ 

SpaceWeather.com is a site devoted to the interaction of the Sun with our planet. You'll find a near "real time" picture of the surface of the Sun, showing sunspot conditions at this time. Also, look for lots of information about Auroras and the "space weather" which causes them (great Aurora pictures!). Recent ,or upcoming meteor showers usually make this page also.

High School Hub

http://www.highschoolhub.org/

High School Hub is " . . . a noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, arts, health, and technology." The site is mostly a source of links to off-site resources, but they've done a good job of sorting out the commercial chaff!

Teaching the News

Teaching the News is a feature on Riverdeep's website. The stories themselves are free, and include links to related sites and suggestions for teaching. The full interactive instructional units require a browser plug-in which Riverdeep sells, making this a commercial site - but the stories themselves are worth it, and free.

Periodic Table of Comic Books

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

The Periodic Table of Comic Books is the result of a project at the University of Kentucky. The authors have put together a collection of comic book references to most of the elements in the periodic table. Click on the element and see what comics have used the element as part of their story. Actual pages from comics are shown and sometimes an explanation of the use of the element is given. Students who get involved may also want to go to the Webelements site (http://www.webelements.com/)  which is a very good “real” periodic table from Sheffield, England. Here they’ll find more than they ever wanted to know about each element. The Webelements site is accessible from the Comics site.

Science Fair Links on Northern Elementary School's website

http://www.northern.fcps.net/scifair.htm

Paula Whitmer has graciously assembled a variety of resources for schools still working on science fair projects. 

http://intranet.fcps.net/edresource/math/

This is a link within our own Fayette County Intranet to a collection of PowerPoint presentations useable in any Geometry classroom. This site is only available for teachers logged into the FCPS computer network.

http://www.uen.org/2002/ - The official education arm of the Salt Lake Cities Games, maintained by the Utah Education Network. Lots of resources!
http://www.saltlake2002.com/ - The official Olympic Salt Lake City Site. Look under menu item "Games Programs/For Kids" for information/activities, including the mascots and their association with Native American lore.