Connect with Other Places
Science/Ecology/Social Science
- Exploratorium List of Cool Sites for
K-12 Teachers -- you could spend
all days just cruising this wonderful list of links
- Check out the Exploratorium's Science Center in SF -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/index.html
- Earthwatch -- Blogs, photos, and links from Earthwatch Expeditions...and teachers and students can sign up to go as well
- Ben's Guide: U.S. Government Sites for Kids -- http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html -- Cool site with links to all sorts of kids' sites made by different government agencies, like Agriculture, Treasury, Smithsonian, etc.
- Franklin Institute Science Museum has in storage a century's worth of scientific instruments. "inQuiry Attic" offers an online exploration of some particularly interesting things in its "Attic"-- http://sln.fi.edu/qa98/atticindex.html
- Check out projects, games, and critters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium website -- http://www.mbayaq.org/lc/default.asp
Language Arts
- GoogleLittrips -- With Google Earth, you can overlay explorations through American literature -- very cool -- kids and classes have created lots of additional archival information and you can "fly" through where the books take you
- PBS/Classroom 2.0 -- Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students