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If you are just getting started with the idea
of independent or small group Type III studies, click here for a
few sites within selected content areas to help guide your journey.
We have selected one or two within each content area, and you can
click on the content area to find others.
Language Arts/Reading
This website focuses on the unique learning needs of precocious
readers. Specifically, the author provides browsers with an extensive
list of books that are psychologically and developmentally appropriate
for young (7-10), but advanced readers. The author organizes her
recommendations into 8 categories: picture books, chapter books,
timeless fantasy, classic stories, modern fiction 1, modern fiction
2, epic fantasy, and non-fiction.
Just
for Kids
The following list of websites provides
all students, including those who are advanced readers and writers,
with the opportunity to explore a self-selected topic in depth.
Precocious readers may want to pursue an author study about their
favorite writer or illustrator. Book Links, a magazine designed
for teachers, librarians, and media specialists, publishes author
studies, essays linking books on a similar theme, bibliographies,
retrospective reviews, and other features for those who educate
young people. Several websites feature renowned authors and illustrators
and invite browsers to explore books, as well as their authors.
Some provide students with the opportunity to communicate directly
with selected authors.
Book
Links
Author
Studies for Primary Grades (1-3)
Jan Brett's
Children's Literature Site
Bibliotherapy
Use the following websites to provide resources for bibliotherapy
with highly able readers and writers. Bibiotherapy is the use of
children's books to help young people understand and resolve personal
issues. It is a particularly effective technique with avid readers
because they are capable of seeing the metaphoric implications of
the material not only for the characters in the plot, but also for
themselves.
Molding
the Minds of the Young: The History of Bibliotherapy
Helping
Children with Books
Science
The Exploratorium's website, in four languages, is as interactive
and hands-on as the museum in San Francisco! Thus, it's not surprising
that the website has earned a variety of awards. Monthly, the staff
presents "10 Cool Science, Art, and Education Sites". Recently,
the sites included Neuroscience for Kids, Calendars through the
Ages, Citizen Kurchatov, DNA for Dinner, Project Primary, Understanding
Color, Project Full Moon, and The Learning Matters of Chemistry,
among others.
Exploratorium
Mentorships
Provide mentorships for students with a passion in science. Mentors
can be located at local universities/community colleges, online,
in the business sector, and among parents of young people. Telementoring
projects include:
Scientific
American
Electronic
Emissary
HP E-mail
Mentor Program
for (5th - 12th grade students)
Cool Web Sites for Kids
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) maintains an
award-winning website that houses a special link to Cool Web Sites
for Kids. Students can access a variety of interactive, hands-on
activities and resources about: airplanes, the Earth, planets, space
travel, stars, and galaxies. All links are chock-full! Once into
the planet site, for example, students have a wide variety of options
such as, Make Your Own Scale Model of Galileo, Build Your Own Martian
Spacecraft, and Gravity Box, in which students compare Earth's gravity
to gravity on the Moon and Mars.
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kids Identifying and Discovering
Sites (KIDS) is a biweekly publication produced by K-12 students
as a resource to other K-12 students. It is an on-going cooperative
effort of 12 classrooms from around the United States. Since 1996-1997,
students amassed an archive of sites in science, mathematics, and
history, including, for example: Inventions, the Holocaust, and
Natural Disasters. Selection criteria are included for readers and
can be used by other students who want to use similar criteria for
identifying and selecting Internet sites for their own Web pages.
Kids
Identifying and Discovering Sites (KIDS)
Social Studies
The American Memory Historical Collection,
a major component of the National Digital Library Program, are multimedia
collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sounds,
moving pictures, and text. There are over 70 collections and some
investigate themes such as elections, immigration, inaugurations,
presidents, and women pioneers.
The
American Memory Historical Collection
National
History Day
Explore the discoveries and inventions that
have changed thinking and history. Some examples include: maps,
mapmaking and their role in exploration; photography and the printing
press and their ability to preserve the past, the railroads and
their ability to bridge people and continents; telescopes and their
ability to see into the past and future. A suggested website is
Teaching About Turning Points in History. The site provides teachers
with strategies and resources to encourage students to think critically
about turning points in history and to conduct research about historically
significant topics that interest them.
The
History Net
Mathematics
This is an award-winning site that contains over 200 pages of information
about Fibonacci numbers and the golden section and golden string.
Categories of information include: Fibonacci numbers and Golden
sections in nature, the puzzling world of Fibonacci numbers, the
intriguing mathematical world of Fibonacci and Phi, the Golden string,
applications of Fibonacci numbers and Phi, and resources and links.
Dr.
Ron Knott
Mathematics Contests and Competitions
Promote student participation in mathematics contests and competitions,
including:
Problem of the Day, Problem of the Week
Institute "Problem of the Day" or "Problem of the Week". Gather
problems from past competitions of Continental Math League or Math
Olympiad at the following sites:
MindWare
Marcy Cook
Books
More contests and competitions can be found in:
- All the Best Contests for Kids,
ISBN 0-89815-451-0, and
- The Ultimate Guide to Student Contests,
Grades 7-12, ISBN 0-8027-7512-8.
To make the task of facilitating Type III projects
easier, you may want to review the following links. They were selected
to help students learn more about independent or small group research
opportunities. Some are designed for teachers, but many are appropriate
for individual student use.
Electronic Resources to Assist
Students in Conducting Research
Mystery Tour - www.teachnet.org/MysteryTour/intro.htm
Experience the fun of being part of
an Internet fieldtrip. The only cost associated with this will
be postage and 30 stamped picture postcards. In return, your class
will receive a United States map, postcards from other tour guide
schools, and your class is eligible for prizes throughout the
tour.
KIDPROJ, a part of KIDLINK - www.kidlink.org:80/KIDPROJ
At this site teachers and youth group leaders
from around the world plan activities and projects for students
and other kids age 5 to 15. KIDPROJ is like a "family" who talk
to each other, participate in many discussions and work together
on many different activities and projects.
Kidpub - www.kidpub.org/kidpub
Aspiring young writers can submit stories,
poems, and data to this site for publication.
Poetry Pals - www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5165
In 1998-99 Poetry Pals published up to a
maximum of 50 poems per school for the year. Students' names are
not posted to protect the personal safety of young people.
Journey North, A Global Study in Wildlife
Migration - www.learner.org/jnorth/index.html
This cite is an ongoing global study of wildlife
migration provided by Annenberg/CPM Math and Science project.
Participants gather and submit data about migrations, sitings,
blooming of plants, etc.
iEARN - www.igc.apc.org/iearn
This cite enables young people to make a
meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet
an its people by offering 35-40 structured projects, each with
a teacher-facilitator, in social studies, science, environment,
math, arts, literature, and interdisciplinary areas.
PROJECTS & PROGRAMS - www.gsn.org/project/index.html
Projects & Programs provides Internet projects
for students. You can design your own project or join an existing
project created by other teachers and students. This cite gives
access to other organization's projects.
Online Projects - www.pitsco.com/p/collab.html
This cite provides on-line projects for students
to join. The meta-list has over 80 WWW sites that have information
on collaborative projects.
GLOBE - www.globe.gov
Globe is a hands-on program that will link
Oceanic and Atmospheric students with other students and with
scientists around the world. Students, guided by trained teachers,
take environmental measurements identified and designed by an
international group of scientists and educators.
Testbed - teaparty.terc.edu/about//about.html
This cite has created several science projects
including EnergyNet, Global Lab, Classroom FeederWatch Project,
and Cyber March.
Scientist Network - www.madsci.org
At this site there is an archive of questions
and answers to scientific ponderings. Also, students can pose
research questions. Scientist Network includes a listing of edible
and inedible experiments.
Museums Hotlist - sln.fi.edu:80/tfi/hotlists/museums.html
Musuems Hotlist provides a listing of science
centers and museums that can be used by the students to locate
information for a research project as well as providing contact
to museum curators.
HP E-mail Mentor Program - mentor.external.hp.com
The Hp E-mail Program is a structured, project-based
program where HP employees worldwide volunteer to telementor 5th
- 12th grade students in unique one-to-one electronic relationships.
The focus of this program is to help students excel in math, science,
professional communication skills and to develop solid education
and career plans for life beyond high school.
Department of Education - www.ed.gov/pubs/emath
E-mail based volunteer programs designed
to help students master challenging mathematics, science and technology.
My Hero -
myhero.com/home.asp
This cite is used to honor heroes and to pay tribute to local heroic
figures such as MLK Jr, Mark Twain, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein
and Rosa Parks. Through this web site parents and children can share
their heroes.
Classroom Projects - teams.lacoe.edu
This site provides projects and contests
for the classroom as well as giving a list of projects and contests
from other organizations.
KidsConnect - www.ala.org/ICONN/kidsconn.html
This cite is a question-answering, help and
referral service to K-12 students on the Internet. The goal of
the service is to help students access and use the information
available on the Internet effectively and efficiently.
National Student Research Center - youth.net/nsrc/webs.html
NSRC serves as an outlet for student investigations.
This site is on-line to assist teachers and their students on
how to conduct scientific research. Students can submit their
research findings to this site for publication.
Places to Publish Student Products -
www.edbydesign.com
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