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Greetings,
Lots of great reading today.
best,
<Karen>
1)
Kids Page: science education links
http://glendale.edu/kids
Just wanted to share a website that I have set up for the Science
Center at Glendale Community College. The goal for the site is to
gather links for online games and activities to support our Youth
Science Program.
2)
alexander the great ancient greece egypt solar energy Webquest:
http://jtubbs.21publish.com/weblogCategory/k8xl9dcmx5ji
I actually created a Webquest with a blog last year on solar energy.
As involved as kids get in the content with Webquests, they get even
more so when you use a blog. You can post each section (e.g.
introduction or task) of the quest as a separate entry and then have
students complete those sections by posting a comment on them.
Jamie Tubbs misterteacher.blogspot.com
http://www.misterteacher.com
3)
MATH
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
http://www.amser.org
is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically
for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free
for anyone to use.
AMSER is a non-profit organization and is funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF)
as part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). We are a
fairly new project, and are constantly adding new resources to our
library. (About 200-300 per week) The resources we add to our site
come from other online digital collections, staff (area expert)
additions, as well as from faculty from around the country. The goal
of AMSER is not only to provide a site where instructors and students
can find high-quality and authoritative web resources but to provide
tools to use these resources as well. We provide a folder system
(which allows you to share resources online), bulletin service
(to update you with subject specific resources), saved
searches, rating and comments systems and more. Because we are new,
we would appreciate any feedback for improvements that could be made
to the site to make it more useful for you, as well as any
suggestions for online material that we could add.
Collection of 521 lessons for preK-12 math educators
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
4)
What is Relative, Absolute and Perfect Pitch
http://www.edu-cybrpg.com/music/Sing_in_tune.html
Steps:
1. Hear sound
2.Think (remember) the sound
3. sing the sound.
5)
Rhythm, melody and harmony stimulate several areas of the brain
http://www.edu-cybrpg.com/music/neurological.html
suggesting that music could be used to help repair everything from
damaged speech to damaged emotions, researchers say.
6)
30,000 year old ivory flute found in Germany is the oldest instrument.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/worldmusic.html
The flute's makers lived in the Upper Palaeolithic era of the last ice age,
a period when Europe was occupied simultaneously by the last
Neanderthals and the first modern humans.
7)
What is the evolutionary science of interspecies language?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/interspecies.html
8)
Musical training during childhood may influence regional brain growth
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/braingrowth.html
9)
Native languages influence the way people group non-language sounds
into rhythms
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/originvocal.html
10)
The origin of words: or Where does language come from?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/evolution.asp
11)
Babies Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/BabySign.html
12)
Sign Writing is a system of writing the movements and
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/signwriting.html
handshapes of sign languages. It was developed in 1974
by Valerie Sutton, a dancer who had two years earlier developed Dance Writing.
13)
End of the year music activities to help stop classroom management and
discipline problems.
http://www.edu-cybrpg.com/music/endofyear.html
13)
Why is Play So Important? Keeps kids from being disicipline problems.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/Play.asp
14)
Find out the importance of laughter and learning research (for adults
and children)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/Laugh.asp
Keep your sense of humor towards the end of the school year.
13)
Reading Assessment and Readability Tests and Tools
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/readability.asp
14)
US Sens. Harkin (D-IA), Isakson (R-GA), Bingaman (D-NM),
and Lieberman (I-CT) introduced a bipartisan bill today dedicating
$43 million to help reverse the nation's critical shortage of preventive
medicine and public health doctors.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/acop-usi041607.php
This is increasingly important
as the country faces continued threats from infectious diseases such
as pandemic flu, bioterrorism attacks and an aging public health workforce.
15)
Bird Flu Disaster Information
"BIRD FLU" INFORMATION FOR ETHNIC LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
AVIAN FLU, BIRD FLU, H5N1, AVIAN INFLUENZA
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguisitics/birdflu.html
16)
Homework -- Keeping children, parents and teachers together
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/esr-hkc041107.php
A new interactive learning system which helps parents keep in touch
with what their children are doing at school is proving to be a great
success with children, parents and teachers, according to new research
funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The research, based at the University of Sussex and the London
Knowledge Lab, developed the 'HOMEWORK' interactive learning system
which enables children between the ages of 5 and 7 to learn and
practice Key Stage 1 maths using a range of multimedia technologies -
both in the classroom and at home with their family.
The researchers found that using HOMEWORK:
improved communication between parents, teachers and learners
provided continuity between home and school learning
made numeracy learning more engaging for many learners
increased participation and enjoyment in homework (by parents as well
as pupils)
and may have increased the effectiveness of time spent learning.
17)
Last month, as part of a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer sharing
of music files on college campuses, the Recording Industry Association
of American asked North Carolina State University to forward 23
prelitigation notices to students identified only by their Internet
addresses. The university complied, but the director of student legal
services, Pam Gerace, has advised students not to identify themselves
to the RIAA, according to an article in the campus newspaper,
http://media.www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007/04/13/News/Riaa-Files.23.Lawsuits.Against.Ncsu-2839394.shtml
The Technician. Ms. Gerace warned students that if they reveal their
identities to the RIAA, the trade group might then sue the students or
give their names to record companies, the newspaper said. An
accompanying editorial
http://media.www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007/04/13/Viewpoint/Fight.The.Riaa-2839422.shtml
applauded Ms. Gerace's efforts, saying that if
students settle with the RIAA, it will be encouraged to go after more
students at the university that it suspects are infringing copyrights.
"It is imperative that the university community makes it clear that
the RIAA can't shove us around with its deep pockets, and the
opposition starts with the accused -- students," the editorial said.
--Andrea L. Foster
18)
This article will describe an efficient and simple method for
decoding ir signals.
http://www.datasingularity.com/html/makeshift_ir.html
First thing you want to do is grab your guitar, or whatever you have,
and route it from an amp of some sorts to your input on your computer.
There is no electronics experience or use necessary. You will need an electric
guitar or bass (or some kind of magnetic coil pickup), something to amplify
the signal from line level, a sound card with audio input, and some kind of
program to record and view the waveform. There are many freeware
programs available such as Audacity. Just Google search "Wav editors".
19)
ASTEROID FLYBY:
http://spaceweather.com
Newly discovered asteroid 2007 HA is flying past Earth today about
2.5 million kilometers away. There's no danger of a collision, but it is
an interesting flyby: the asteroid is big (300 meters wide), bright
(13th to 14th magnitude), and an easy target for large backyard telescopes.
A beautiful movie of 2007 HA streaking among the stars of Virgo on
April 16th and tonight the asteroid cuts through the Big Dipper where
undoubtedly it will be photographed by many astronomers.
CRESCENT MOON: A super-slender crescent Moon emerges from
the glare of the sun this evening, April 17th, and will proceed over the
next few nights to glide by Comet 2P/Encke, the Pleiades star cluster
and the planet Venus.
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