Carol Engelmann's
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This can be a link to new and exciting educational
experiences. Check out the locations below. Have a nice trip.....
I am a High School science teacher in Ralston, Nebraska. The Ralston community is a suburb
of Omaha, Nebraska. Our school has about 900 students in grades 9 through 12. We have a
lot of exciting things going on with education reform. Our current freshman are all on
interdisciplinary teams and we have an interdisciplinary sophomore team.
- As Chairperson of the Science Department, I am working to make our
course offerings reflect the new National Science Standards by the
piloting of "Chemistry in the Community" and "Integrated Science".
- As a leader of
the sophomore team, my students and I have designed a WWWeb document on
our ongoing study of the Missourri River and it's relationship to the
community. Check out our River Web Project!
Thanks to ConAgra Foundation for funding our project!
- As team leader for our next stage in the River Study, I am writing
curriculum for our team students to become Virtual Reality World
builders. Thanks to U.S. West for our $8,000 and the Connecting Teachers
With Technology Award!
- As team leader for our Nebraska Wind Energy Project, funded by the
Nebraska Math/Science Coalition,
I am working with my Earth Science students investigating wind as an
alternative energy power source. Our project will be documented on the
WWW soon!
- As a member of the Ralston High School assessment team, I have been developing
"performance-based" assessments for Ralston's students to demonstrate their skills.
- As a board member of the Governor's Council to Keep Nebraska
Beautiful, I am working
to integrate environmental education into the K-12 curriculum.
- As part of a High School curriculum development team at NCSA, I
helped to develop and maintain a
Web-based resource aiding teachers in the integration of cutting-edge technology into the
secondary science classroom. Secondary
Math/Science Resource
Some of my Favorite Internet
Stops
- The
Ralston Rampages, our school newspaper!
- Science
Resources: a World Wide Web Reource for High School Interactive Modeling Applications.
- Teachers interested in teaching a Hydrology unit
would find this site useful.
- Eisenhower National
Clearinghouse Digital Curriculum Lab has lots of great resources for
K-12 mathematics and science.
- If you are interested in a thorough curriculum database, try Explorer.
- For a wide variety of interesting internet links, try Yahoo.
- Global SchoolNet
organizes, manages,
and facilitates collaborative learning projects for schools with any level of connectivity
. . . from email only.. . to desktop videoconferencing.
- AstroWeb Astronomy/Astrophysics on
the Internet
-
Access Excellence is an excellent site for biology teachers. Classroom and lab activities, interviews with prominent biologists and research updates are just a few of the things you will encounter at this site.
-
K-16 Science Education is an excellent site for science teachers. It serves as a clearinghouse of software and websites pertaining to physical, earth and life sciences, mathematics and engineering. Additional sources include Martindale's Health Scienc
e Guide and Reference Desk.
- The
Biologist's Web Resource Page is a good molecular biology resource.
- The
Tree of Life is a new phylogenetically-based resource that encompasses all
kingdoms of living things.
-
Biologist's Control Panel is another good molecular biology resource.
- The
RSE Home Page is a the Home Page of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications program which brings visiting educators to develop technology-based materials and curricula.
- The
Discovery Channel Online is an enjoyable, educational site that changes daily. Science and Nature sections are particularly well done.
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Biological WWW Sites is just what it says...
- The
The WWW Virtual Biology Library is a great resource for research, student or teacher.
- The
Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server is a useful database of organisms in a number of different kingdoms.
- An excellent source of health information is the
World Health Organization WWW Home Page.
- An ever-changing biology-based website is the
CSUBIOWEB.
- The
Environmental Protection Agency WWW Home Page provides a huge number of links to environmental and legal resources.
- The largest environmentally oriented WWW site is
EnviroWeb. Great graphics and information.
- The science
educator is a great resource for all areas of science.
- Teachers
interested in teaching a
Genetics unit would find this site useful.
- Hubble Space Telescope
has the lastest press release about what is happening with the Hubble Space
Telescope.
- For learning more about the mapping of genes Flybase-Drosophila.
- Netscape's Internet search engines (InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, W3 and CUSI) make up the most useful resource I've found up to this point.