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For the Week Beginning Monday 12/1/97 --
Below is This Week's Top Five Internet Homework Research Sites as selected
by the editors of Homework Heaven (http://www.homeworkheaven.com).
This is a weekly service provided by The Jumbo! Download Network to over
14,000 schools and school boards in the U.S. and in forty-one other
countries. A new list is emailed every Friday afternoon.
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It is designed exclusively for students from K-12 levels right through college.
The links provide access to specific information and research
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FIVE TOP INTERNET HOMEWORK RESEARCH SITES - WEEK OF DECEMBER 1 --
International Space Station
http://station.nasa.gov/
"We think the space station is awesome. Thank you for creating this
site," is a comment from a group of students from an
Indiana school quoted on the entry page to this site. The
launch of the station is 8 months away and the site is following the
countdown, posting the latest events. There is an outstanding section
on the assembly of the station, with extensive graphics which take some
time to download. The science, presented in interesting articles,
includes life, earth and space sciences, microgravity and engineering.
The reference section is a fine first stop in an exploration of deeper
space issues.
Jane Austen's Writings
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janewrit.html
Students of literature can find central sources on the Internet for
major writers. This one is a prime example, bringing together Austen's
writings in the same Web location with rich depositories of related
commentary, like the annotated and illustrated HTML hypertext of Pride
and Prejudice. There are genealogical charts for the characters in
novels. The contemporary drawings by Charles E. Brock of Austen's
characters and scenes from her novels help us revisit the romantic era
she captured, and undoubtedly to see at first hand images which
initiated visual ideas we have enjoyed in recent movies. The Jane
Austen Society of North America is here too, including their early word
of conferences to come, like ?Northanger Abby, Gothic and More, in
Quebec city, October 9-11, 1998.
Tools for Learning about Birds
http://www.mbr.nbs.gov/bbs/ident.html
Students and instructors can visit this Website of the Patuxent Wildlife
Research Center
in Maryland for the pictures and songs of birds from throughout North
and Central America, and to study identification tips from the experts.
Migratory bird research is explained and clickable maps exploit the
power of computing to display graphically the breeding seasons and other
distributions of information about many bird species. And there is
the Patuxent Bird Quiz, at both beginner and advanced levels, to test
what you learn by guessing which species pattern is displayed on bird
population maps.
Physics News Graphics
http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/condensed/1997/froth/froth.htm
This Web page is the American Institute of Physics's archive of images.
Choose from the earth's core, the first pictures ever taken with the
help of a space-based radio telescope, cosmic snowballs, nanodimonds and
dozens more images with explanations and resources. One of the
selections is frost heaving, a poorly understood process by which ice
columns grow upward against the force of gravity. Frost heaving can be
studied in the laboratory, and here it can be compared to a panoramic
photo of the macro version on the Mackenzie River in the Canadian
Arctic.
J.S. Bach Home Page
http://www.jsbach.org/
Sections here are Johann Sebastian Bach's life, complete works,
recommended (or not) recordings, cantatas, and Bach information around
the world. Perhaps a Website is the first medium which could put before
a student so much from this complex and prolific genius. In the
biography section a map shows the places where he lived, and the
extensive timeline gives a framework to Bach's life, with a parallel
column for contemporary musicians. The works and recordings are listed
by BWV number, category, instruments, key, title, and year. And the
composition of this Web work continues with the growing Cantatas
Project, which seeks to keep accessible some of the most beautiful
music ever written, for ourselves, but also for generations to come.
Amen."
THIS WEEK'S TOP 5 SCHOOLWORK RESEARCH SITES are chosen by the editors
of HOMEWORK HEAVEN (http://www.homeworkheaven.com) from the more than
11,000 homework-related links on our site. ...And a happy Thanksgiving
to you!