WhaleNet is dedicated to education while focusing on whales and whale research.
WhaleNet is a unique interdisciplinary, hands-on, collaborative telecomputing
project to foster excitement and learning about the natural world in schools
across the nation and around the globe. Access to live satellite data on
position of whales, curriculm material and an ask-a-scientist pages are
all available through this great web site!
Join students, teachers and parents across North America in an Internet-based
learning adventure about the global study of wildlife migration and seasonal
change. Track a wide range of animals in real time through the use of satellite
tags, spotter postings and partner classrooms.
Join the North Carolina Zoo and a team of researchers on an interactive
project
to track and study elephants in northern Cameroon. Read daily journals,
interact with scientists in the field and track the elephants in real
time!
Kids from all over are joining with scientists to track ocean-going albatrosses in Hawaii !!!
They are using sensitive satellites in space, miniature transmitters on
birds, and rapid email communications to investigate the travels of these animals on the open ocean.
Through this web page, you can view a regularly updated map showing the
migratory movements of endangered sea turtles being tracked by satellite.
It is hoped that by providing this unique look at the migratory habits of
sea turtles, you will also be compelled to learn more about sea turtle
biology, the threats they face and the ways in which you can help protect
marine turtles.
Join Dr. Jackie Giacalone Willis as she conducts research in the
rainforest of Panama. Read daily journals and get to interact with the
scientists on a daily basis as they conduct their research.
These projects allow students to share in the excitement of NASA's authentic
scientific and engineering pursuits like flying the shuttle, spacecraft
explorations of distant planets, and space-based life sciences research.
One Sky, Many Voices engages students in 'real-time', inquiry-based weather
projects. Come join students all around the world and discover the wonders
of weather. This is one of the best and most professional organized
weather related project, don't miss it! SMALL FEE REQUIRED.
Blue Ice: Focus On Antarctic involves several virtual field trips to Antarctica.
Students, grades 4 - 12, from around the world are working together in
this online "class" to learn just how an ecosystem as rich and vast as
the Antarctic food web can survive in the icy waters that surround such
a cold and barren continent as Antarctica. As we investigate the food web,
we also learn about the geography, weather, history, geology and wildlife
of Antarctica, and begin to consider our role as human beings in the stewardship
of all the earth. FEE IS REQUIRED.
Rivers of Life: Mississippi Adventure engages grades 3-12 students in an
interdisciplinary exploration of one of the world's greatest river systems.
The Mississippi's rich natural and cultural history come to life through
interactive on-line field reports from guests such as river managers, barge
pilots, biologists, poets, musicians, historians, and lock and dam operators.
Flood and stream data will be monitored and students will paricipate in
a range of data collection activities. FEE IS REQUIRED.
Using the internet, you can participate in a real science experiment
conducted here at the Center for Biological Timing. View
actual experiment results, analyze real-time data, form hypotheses, suggest variables for
new experiments, and share conclusions with other scientists from all over the
world. NOTE: Data is collected from experiments involving LIVE animals,
site should be previewed before use with young students.
VolcanoWorld brings modern and near real time volcano information to specific
target audiences and other users of the Internet. VolcanoWorld draws extensively
on remote sensing images (AVHRR, Landsat TM, Magellan, Gloria, etc.) and
other data collections. This is a MUST visit
site for anyone who teachers volcanoes!
This project, based at the University of Washington in Seattle and sponsored
by NASA, has developed educational materials based on realtime and retrospective
Atmospheric Sciences and Space Sciences data and information. These resources
are provided to K-12 educational systems, museums and the public via the
World Wide Web, with special emphasis being placed on making the resources
suitable for use in science and mathematics instruction in the kindergarten
through twelfth grade. Atmospheric Sciences resources to display and explore
the unique meteorology of the Pacific Northwest and the Puget Sound region
with live data are available in conjunction with LIVE data from the Mars
Mission.
Track drifter buoys in the world's oceans, forecast today's space weather,
investigate tropical storms viewed from space. Project Athena engages students
in observing phenomena using remote-sensed data to construct knowledge
about the world. Data sets and instructional pieces are related to oceans,
the atmosphere, Earth resources, and space/astronomy. Real-time data is
used where possible. The material is intended for direct use by students
with appropriate assistance from teachers. The goal of Athena is to enhance
the K-12 science curriculum, and facilitate use of the powerful computational
tools in classrooms networked to the Web.
AfricaQuest will take an online audience of students on a
1,500-mile, six-week mountain bike journey through Africa's Great Rift
Valley. Each week our online collaborators will vote to help decide our
route and with whom we interact. Then, we'll tap into their expertise,
research abilities and intuition to help illuminate some of Africa's greatest
mysteries.
FEE IS REQUIRED.
The Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience (IPPEX) site on the World
Wide Web allows
students and teachers to participate remotely in scientific research at
the country's largest fusion energy laboratory. Students create a
knowledge base that helps them operate a virtual tokamak (a fusion energy
device) and analyze data from the actual experiment (which may have been
acquired just minutes before) in the same way that professional physicists
do.
The Chemistry Visualization program at NCSA (ChemViz) is a program which
uses the power of the World Wide Web in combination with the power of the
SGI
supercomputer to generate images of atoms, molecules, and atomic orbitals.
The user inputs a set of parameters as they are prompted and submits these
parameters
to the supercomputer. A picture file is generated which the user downloads
and views either in their Web browser or with a visualization program,
NCSA Collage,
available for free from this site.
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is
a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together
to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from
over 4000 schools in over 60 countries are working with research
scientists to learn more about our planet. GLOBE students make a core set
of environmental observations at or near their schools and report their
data via the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and
provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Each
day, images created from the GLOBE student data sets are posted on the
World Wide Web, allowing students and visitors to the GLOBE web site to
visualize the student environmental observations.
There are many good sites. That's the glory and the challenge of the Internet.
Our goal is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students,
researchers, parents, educators, citizens at all levels who have an interest
in mathematics education. This is a MUST visit
site for mathematics teachers. If you are looking for middle school Internet
based math projects at the math forum CLICK
HERE.
The University of Bradford has been working for a number of years on the
development of low-cost robotic and remote telescopes. Robotic telescopes
are also useful in education where students can send observations to the
telescope from their classroom and pick up the results the next day.
This site allows student to request real time images from the research
grade telescope which are available the next day, a very compelling use
of the Internet!
The Hands-On Universe is an education program sponsored by the National
Science Foundation and the Department of Energy that helps high school
students perform genuine astronomical research in their classrooms. Students
from around the world can request observations from an automated 30" telescope,
select and download images from an archive of over 1500 images, and learn
the math and science involved in professional astronomy through Hands-On
Universe curriculum. NOTE: Teacher training is required prior to access
to curriculum material.
The JASON Project was founded in 1989 by Dr. Robert D. Ballard following
his discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic. After receiving thousands
of letters from children who were excited by his discovery, Dr. Ballard
and a team of associates dedicated themselves to developing ways that would
enable teachers and students all over the world to take part in global
explorations using advanced interactive telecommunications. Each year a
new adventure is available for your students to take part in via real time
interactive activities.
The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project is thousands
of students, over a hundred teachers, and dozens of researchers and scientists
working to improve science education in middle and high schools. They do
this by approaching the learning of science more like the doing of science,
and by employing a broad range of communication and collaboration technologies.
Participating students study atmospheric and environmental sciences through
inquiry-based activities. Using state of the art scientific visualization
software, specially modified to be appropriate to a learning environment,
students have access to the same research tools and data sets used by leading-edge
scientists in the field.
