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Scholastic: You Innovate 21
21st Century Skills and STEM together? Sure! netTrekker makes that connection and supplementary resources quick and easy to find. For example, do a keyword search for “science”. Check out the Subject Refinement Menu and look for “21st Century Skills” in the list. When you refine by that choice, the resulting resources are based on the curricular area of Science and focused on the 21st Century Skills framework. Today’s Site of the Day, You Innovate 21, is a great example of this example search in the high school tab:
This multimedia website helps students explore the relevance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics in their lives today, and encourages them to consider a career in STEM in the future. After launching “You Innovate 21,” students will be taken to an animated city block where they can read an interactive graphic novel, view museum exhibits, enter virtual city shops, and answer brain teasers – all while applying and expanding their STEM knowledge!
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National Park Service: Roadside Attractions
Do you consider giant statues of Paul Bunyan and buildings shaped like milk bottles monuments to the American culture? Doing a search for “American Monuments,” and using the Maps/Charts refinement (under the Learning Aides Refinement Menu) will take you to a set of resources that help illustrate these truly American icons. Today’s Site of the Day features one of these resources from our National Park Service on Roadside Attractions.
This captivating site explores American’s love of road trips and includes critical thinking questions and eye-catching pictures. Discover funny and unique roadside attractions throughout America. This site is bound to entertain your class, and you!
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I Want to Fly!
Drill down into Science topics like Physics and you would think that the resources might get a little “dull”. Not so! Check out Science > Physics > Principles of Motion > Force. Inside this area is a wonderful example of how students can be engaged by some of these complicated STEM topics. Check it out in today’s Site of the Day - I Want to Fly!
This cartoon based interactive site uses a character named Toby to introduce many physics concepts including the principles of motion and force. Toby the wizard wants to fly! Learn how three items can help him accomplish this goal. Real world information and video can be found on this site, helping to further explain the properties of flight.
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Academy of Achievement
Students learn and achieve in many different ways, as you know. Now you can help your students see the value in their own approach. Using biographies of great role models to show examples of different styles and approaches to achievement is easy with netTrekker!
Two approaches will help you with this initiative, depending on your own style. First, check out the Teacher Tools area. Teacher Tools is full of great learning styles and strategies, and will help you address that old but new again area of character education:
Teacher Tools > Learning Styles and Strategies > Character Education
Next, use the keyword of “Achievement” with a refinement of Biographies (under the Learning Aides Menu) to get sites about great leaders and how they have achieved. One great example is Today’s Site of the Day, the Academy of Achievement! This resource offers biographical sketches of hundreds of modern “leaders, visionaries, and pioneers” from around the world, and from the fields of the arts, business, public service, science and exploration, and sports. Learn both what makes these men and women unique and what common traits have placed them in this list. Be inspired and challenged by their lives and deeds to see how you might change the world, too. You can even search the list based on some of your own qualities to find people to whom you might look as mentors or role models!
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MasAlto: Escritores/Writers
Engage your ELL/ESL group by finding sites in their language quickly! Use any keyword in any grade level, then personalize those search results to your non-English speaking population by applying the Language Refinement Menu. Many times there are multiple language choices you can make, depending on the keyword and availability of those topics in different languages.
For example, keyword search “writers” and refine by Spanish to locate this user-friendly Site of the Day written in Spanish and geared toward younger internet users. The site features information about many famous authors from throughout the world. For each writer, students will find a picture and short biography.
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Sammy Salmon
Get a life cycle! Check out life cycle information for all kinds of animals – it’s easy to find using a subject and keyword combined approach. Keyword: life cycle AND using the Subject Refinement Menu to drill down in the subject of Science on a path such as this one:
Science > Biology > Animals > Animal Classification > Chordates > Fish > Bony
Today’s Site of the Day, a great site about the life cycle of Pacific salmon, can be found using the combined keyword and drill down approach. Learn all about Pacific salmon from Sammy Salmon and his friends. Come along with Starfish as he follows Sammy the Salmon’s life cycle. Authors provide links to other fun sites such as a salmon story, games, information about Sammy and much more!
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BrainPOP Jr.: Make Inferences
Check out another fantastic collection in netTrekker while helping your students become better readers and writers! The BrainPOP Jr. collection (available under the Collections Refinement Menu) uses interactive movies, games, quizzes, and activities to explore topics.
In today’s Site of the Day, you’ll learn how to make inferences. Find out how to infer what you know or see to come up with an idea. You’ll explore ways to observe and find clues that can help you figure out a writer’s message in a book, essay, or paragraph. You’ll also learn how you can take notes and analyze details to help you infer as you read. Explore how you can become an active reader!
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NOVA Online: Operation Heart Transplant
Congratulations Doctor! Discover the amazing and engaging Teacher’s Domain collection in netTrekker! One of our favorite resources, the virtual heart transplant, is featured in today’s Site of the Day. Each one of the resources in the Teacher’s Domain collection has wonderful background information and discussion questions to save you even more time.
Put on your surgical gloves and get ready to do a virtual surgery in the NOVA operating theater. You’ll get a set of surgical tools and instructions you need to understand the step-by-step process doctors use for this vital operation.
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Repeat After Us
The availability of full-text Literature in netTrekker is great, but when you add Audio as a refinement, you really find some powerful resources! Check out this great example in today’s Site of the Day, a collection of copyright-free literature ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy and literature from many time periods and cultures. There are more than 6,000 texts, and over 1,100 of them are accompanied by audio readings. The site was originally designed to help English language learners, as users can hear and see the texts. It is also useful for those who are hearing-impaired, as well as anyone who is looking for simple access to these texts.
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Get Safe Online
Have you checked out the netTrekker Teacher Tools area? There are many valuable resources about using technology and the internet in the classroom – like the one from today’s Site of the Day! Check out others by going to Teacher Tools (under the Features Menu on the right side). Next you can drill down by following this path: Teacher Tools > Technology in the Classroom > Social, Ethical and Legal Issues > Internet Safety
Online computing can be dangerous! Viruses, spyware, and identity theft are just a few of the pitfalls that await online computer users. This site presents an online risk assessment to determine the user’s safety consciousness. It also offers information and advice on how to avoid rip-offs, scams and identity theft.
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Women, Power and Politics
Welcome to Women’s History Month! Welcome to a world where women rule!
Use powerful advanced searching techniques to search for resources within a topic like “Women.” Try “women” as your keyword, then use the Subject Refinement Menu to narrow the resources in the area of Social Studies and Politics. OR, check out the Search in Context feature! Use the drill-down approach to get to the Politics area under Social Studies, then use “women” as your keyword and select the Search in Context box. This will keep your search results focused on great resources such as today’s Site of the Day!
The International Museum of Women (a museum dedicated to women) offers an online museum exhibition organized around nine themes related to women, power and politics. Learn how women around the world continue to claim a place at the political table, what forces have tried to keep them away, and where they are claiming victories. Themes include Power, Environment, Voting, Appearance and Religion, among others.
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Sixty Symbols: Videos about the Symbols of Physics and Astronomy
Touch screens and Quantum Tunneling?
How do students get a handle on all the strange symbols and notations used in the areas of Astronomy and Physics? netTrekker can help with today’s Site of the Day, featuring a collection of videos explaining many of these symbols. The video refinement option under netTrekker’s Multimedia Refinement Menu can lead to you many other video resources from your keyword search results.
In this site, Astronomy and Physics experts at the University of Nottingham explain the strange symbols, letters, and “squiggles” you often see with equations or diagrams in textbooks and other materials. Enjoy lively discussions, simple demonstrations, and humorous anecdotes as these scientists share their years of experience, demonstrating scientific concepts and discussing what humans have yet to uncover in our universe. Topics include our Solar System’s planets, the speed of light, polarization, the magic square, the number pi, entropy, and Planck’s constant.
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