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Possible Science Web Applications

04/17/2001

Web Mentor:

When students finish a major experiment, have a scientist available for questions, to help them interpret their data
Ask a scientist to help you outline your unit. What is the latest breaking question in the field? Begin an odyssey with your students to address that question.

Web Resource

Interview major players in a current science event or those affected, i.e., interview astronomers about the implications of finding life on Mars
Access data kept by government agencies.
Access Web sites that feature interactive learning opportunities (online frog dissections, etc.)

Web Collaboration

With other classrooms, create a library that explains the physics of everyday phenomena (for example: sports)
Track data on an endangered or rare species (such as loons) across the country.
Research the health of an ecosystem with schools that share a common ecosystem, i.e., assess the water quality of a shared waterway.

Web Survey

Survey students or others internationally about environmental or ethical issues raised by science (such as recycling habits, genetics research, etc.)
Survey schools on sightings of migratory animals across contiguous countries.
Identify environmental problems that need to be addressed

Cooperative Challenge

Create a cooperative game at your Web site around a science concept ( For example, using IRC, have students from all over join in teams to solve physics problems or answer biology questions. Offer progressively more difficult questions)
Have your AP students create a site where students can practice taking a sample AP test.
Create a simple Internet science scavenger hunt for young students (How many dinosaurs can they find on the Net?)
Have students design and moderate a science Problem of the Week.

Social Action

Join forces to take a political action on a current environmental issue, i.e., an online letter-writing campaign to key government officials.
Organize a statewide cleanup or other major effort
Create a public service campaign complete with educational resources on your Web site.

Multimedia

Create a demonstrtion of a physical science phenomenon, utilizing multimedia tools and publishing to a Web site. (For example, create a demonstration of acceleration by videotaping a ball drop and through slow motion analyze it frame by frame. Calculate the acceleration based on the frames per minute.)

Simulation

Animate a science concept for younger children. (Have your middle school class write a script for younger students to illustrate photosynthesis using a fictional character.