Exploring Planets in the Classroom: Hands-on science activities
Exploring Planets in the Classroom was a long-running summer workshop in Planetary Geosciences offered at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa for the state's K-12 educators and librarians under the direction of Dr. G. Jeffrey Taylor. Hands-on activities in this course were developed and/or tested by the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium in cooperation with educators statewide. In 1996 the workshop transformed into this website to assist educators and resource specialists around the globe to find hands-on activities that match science standards in elementary, middle, high school, and college classrooms.
A WebQuest about WebQuests
Introduction Since early in 1995, teachers everywhere have learned how to use the web well by adopting the WebQuest format to create inquiry-oriented lessons. But what exactly is a WebQuest? What does it feel like to do one? How do you know a good one when you see it?
Adapting and Enhancing Existing WebQuests
Creating a WebQuest from scratch might seem like a daunting task, no matter how enthusiastic you are about the format. It takes a certain level of technical skill, familiarity with the subject matter, and time to round up appropriate links. Fortunately there are thousands of WebQuests in existence out on the web. How many? Try typing the word WebQuest into Google and see what you get.
Multimedia Seeds: Collection Use: Learning: WebQuests and Lesson Plans
Audio and video can be integrated into activities across the curriculum. Why reinvent the wheel? You can find lots of units, lessons, and webquests on the Internet to explore and adapt. WebQuests provide an authentic, technology-rich environment for problem solving, information processing, and collaboration.
"Autumn Star And Planets : And Why The Stars Change With The
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Astronomy OLogy
Photos: The first Moon Walk, Buzz Aldrin: courtesy of NASA, taken by Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11; Earth forming: courtesy of JSC and NASA, Apollo 17; The Sun forming: courtesy of EIT Consortium/NSSDC and NASA, SOHO's EIT EIT Asteroids flying, Ida and it's moon Dactyl: courtesy of NSSDC and NASA; Galileo Sun's nuclear energy: courtesy of EIT Consortium/NSSDC and NASA, SOHO's EIT; Colliding galaxies: courtesy of The Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA and NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Center, Debra Meloy Elmegreen, Bruce C. Elmegreen, Michele Kaufman, Elias Brinks, Curt Struck, Magnus Thomasson, Maria Sundin, and Mario Klaric; Black Holes: Accretion Disk Binary System: STScI and NASA; The Center of Centaurus, E.J.
English-Language Arts Worksheets
1st Grade Reading Comprehension Read the article, poems, and stories, and answer the reading comprehension questions. Passages written for students at a first grade reading level.
Literature Circle Extension Projects
Literature circles offer students the opportunity to extend and develop interpretation through artistic forms of response. Ending a literature circle unit with an extension project provides readers additional ways to revisit what they've read, continue the conversations (and the discoveries), and create even more meaning. Extension projects are not art activities for their own sake. A good extension project will keep the thinking and response alive even after students have finished a book. The goal is to lure students back into the book to cement, enhance, and even reinvent what they gained from their first visit. Planning Projects includes forms to download and print
Free Handwriting Worksheet Editing
This form can be used to create printable handwriting worksheets. Creating a worksheet fromt the templates shown here is as simple as picking a template, and then picking a theme for the template. The worksheet you create will be a result of filling the template with a list of words based on your chosen theme. Note that only a few of our handwriting worksheet templates are available here. An abcteach membership allows you to create fully customized handwriting worksheets that can be saved and edited online. As a member, you will have two tools available for creating worksheets.
3d Geometric Shapes - Nets
"Math Salamanders Free Math Sheets" Welcome to Math Salamanders Nets for 3d Geometric Shapes for Prisms and Pyramids. Here you will find a wide range of free printable nets for a range of 3d shapes for display or to support Math learning.
