 | The Wright Flyer lifted from level ground and Orville Wright
achieved the
first powered, controlled, sustained and piloted flight. His brother, Wilbur
Wright, timed the flight with a stopwatch from the ground. On that first
flight, the Wright Flyer traveled slightly more than 9 meters; the flight
lasted 12 seconds.
The Wright brothers were the first to fully appreciate the interaction and
interdependence of aerodynamic stability, propulsion, and flight dynamics.
The YES I Can!
Science Team of York University has created an online
resource for middle school teachers providing background information,
transparency masters, investigations, and topics for discussion in order to
facilitate student understanding of concepts related to aerodynamics and
flight. |
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| Spelling Ticklers offers almost four dozen different
activities to improve the use of language. Teachers of all grade levels will find something
useful here. |
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| UC Atlas of
Global Inequality is a wonderfully
interactive look at the world as we rarely see it. It is from the ALA's
Social Responsibility Roundtable's listserv. Provides a discussion about global
income inequality. |
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| The Global Virtual
Classroom is a free online educational program to promote
communication, collaboration and understanding among students around the world.
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Reflections on Water
Project 2003 is an opportunity for students (either individually or working
as a collaborative team) to reflect on how water is
important to them or their local community. |
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| The Starfall
System of reading instruction is free to the public. AND...
teachers can request free writing journals for classroom use! |
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| Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand
for at Acronym Finder. |
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| Virtual Science Centre
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Several corporate partners present different activities for teachers to
use. Don't forget to check their e-zine, uh, I mean Q-Zine. |
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| Last year, it was
Sydney, Australia and this month, it is British
Columbia. Many of us here in Edmonton have friends and family in
Kelowna and are shocked by the devastation of the forest fire there.
Over 30,000 people were evacuated this last weekend - the largest
evacuation in Canada. Learn more about this fire and how this
close-knit community is taking care of its own as best as it can...Castanet. |
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| If you can use some puzzles to get started with your
new classes, Rozie's is your site. There are Word Puzzles, Rebus Puzzles,
IQ Tests and much more... |
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| Say It Better.
WordNet is an online
lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs,
adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing
one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. |
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| Rulers.org contains
lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de
facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all
countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also
included are the subdivisions of various countries as well as a selection
of international organizations. |
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| Eric's Slide Rule Site
contains scans and descriptions of a growing collection of slide rules,
along with several pages of (hopefully) useful background information. |
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| This is a highly important site.
The State Department of
Education contains Gateway Proficiencies, Gateway Testing Initiative,
Curriculum Frameworks, and more. Click on "For Education" to find
this information. |
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| Teaching Treasures
contains online interactive activities, projects, worksheets, and much
more. |
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| Kids Domain is a beautiful
site that has games, sports, graphics, and activities for holidays. |
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Tech LEARNING offers a site of the day with a detailed description of
the site. Visit this site DAILY! |
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| What could learning about making a pinhole spy have to do with
anything? Visit Pinhole Spy
Camera and find out. |
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| Mr. Hoffman's
Math Page offers just about anything a high school math class could
need, no matter how hard or easy it might be. |
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