HubbleSite: Way Out!
Who says STEM concepts are always dry and boring? If you use netTrekker’s Refinement Menu to refine your search by Subject and Interactive Media, you can find sites like today’s Site of the Day! Can you help a cow plot a path out of the Milky Way? This space game is fun for all ages and is offered by HubbleSite. Users may pick their level of expertise and can choose from novice, pretty smart about space, or astrobrainiac levels.
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Maths Is Fun: Algebra
Many state standards in Algebra take different approaches and teaching styles to meet. With netTrekker, you can find really helpful sites that benefit both students and teachers – like today’s Site of the Day! As an educator, you can certainly take advantage of the definitions and lessons. Students can explore problem-solving steps and strategies, as well as example questions to help them learn how completing an algebra problem is a lot like solving a puzzle. After viewing introductory material and basic math information, students can also review exponents, simplifying, factoring, logarithms, polynomials, linear equations, quadratic equations, and functions.
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PBS Parents: Matisse Cut-Outs
So, studying Henri Matisse in Art History isn’t engaging your students? Try using netTrekker’s refinement menu for Interactive Media. netTrekker can help you find sites that get your students actively involved in learning and creating their own “Matisse like” work. For example, today’s Site of the Day features a simple, fun game for young learners that allows them to create a design inspired by the work of artist Henri Matisse. Students get to learn about layering, manipulating shapes and other elements of art and design.
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Global Green USA: Yahoo! Virtual House
Help your students understand how a structure can be green with today’s Site of the Day! Interact with the Yahoo! Virtual House to examine the design and elements of the new energy-efficient homes that are part of the Global Green program working to rebuild New Orleans. You can look in several rooms, the backyard, and the structure itself. Each space provides many energy-efficiency ideas.
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Mannahatta Project
Yesterday’s Site of the Day was about the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb. Today’s Site of the Day, the Mannahatta Project, is an effort to show what the ecology of Manhattan was once like and how it has changed from forests full of animal habitats to a habitat mainly for people. There is an interactive map to view changes in specific locations and plenty of links to learn about the science behind the project. There are also lesson plans that may be adapted for those outside of New York.
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Genie in a Bottle Unleashed
Today’s Site of the Day gives a great example of students showing what they can do with technology! Two 13 year-old students created an award winning film on the Manhattan Project and the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. In this film they are able to interview Nobel Prize winners, the mayor of Hiroshima, and other important people. The video gives students a good understanding of this difficult topic, and shows them how a simple summer film project can turn into much more! When presented at the UN, the film got a standing ovation and an encore showing.
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A Healthy Lunchbox Game
Other than picking out a fun design on the outside of their lunchbox, what do students know about healthy lunches?
Today’s Site of the Day challenges students to find foods that make a healthy and balanced lunch. After choosing one of the fun lunchbox designs, players build a healthy sandwich from the choices provided, choose two sides, and finish up with a drink. After students complete their lunch, feedback will be provided about their lunchtime choices.
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National Park Service: WebRangers
Now you can finally learn what those cool park rangers do in today’s Site of the Day. Become a park ranger online and participate in the puzzles, games, and learning experiences provided. Learn to take care of our National Monuments and Historic Sites through insight gleaned from the National Park Service.
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National Science Foundation: The Science of the Olympic Winter Games
Is your classroom ready for the Winter Olympics? Take advantage of this famous and historic sporting event to help your students learn science!
Today’s Site of the Day features a 16-part video series from the partnership of NBC and the National Science Foundation, highlighting the “physics, biology, chemistry, and materials engineering behind the Olympic Winter Games.” Exciting and engaging videos give students a way to connect to different science concepts and still get to enjoy the sport!
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Internet Public Library: Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
Today’s Site of the Day can help you prepare for President’s Day! Learn all about our country’s presidents with this great resource from the Internet Public Library. The site includes concise background information on each president, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd but fun facts on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included. This repository of information helps to give students context and reasoning behind the extra day off of school coming up!
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Glossopedia: China
Glossopedia makes encyclopedia entries come to life – check it out in Today’s Site of the Day, featuring an article on China!
Discover many fun facts about China. Did you know it is the second largest country in Asia with the largest population in the world? This article also discusses China’s long history, many inventions and basic cultural information. China’s varied topography is explained, as well as the country’s vast biodiversity and natural resources. Take advantage of Glossopedia’s Fast Facts, Pictures and Videos to engage students. You can even find a picture of students in China using Glossopedia!
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“English Fairy Tales” by Joseph Jacobs
Today’s Site of the Day features an illustrated collection of full-text fairy tales, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Henny-Penny, The Three Little Pigs, and The Three Bears. Try using the netTrekker Read Aloud tool to bring these tales to life! The netTrekker Dictionary HotKey can help students understand the language in these tales, and the Translation HotKey can assist your ESL population while they read the text.
This site also includes a very helpful Notes section that advanced readers will want to check out. While some of these English tales will be very familiar, there are quite a few that are probably new to most modern readers!
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