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.
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