The following links were gathered, annotated and edited by Barry Sovel, Petaluma Junior High School, along with contributions by friends and colleagues, especially Rick Massell, El Molino High School (Sebastopol, CA). The intent of these bookmarks is to support connecting telecommunications to classroom curriculum and activities for teachers, students and parents. If you should have additions to these links, that you have used in your classrooms, please forward your contribution to Barry Sovel. [last updated: 4 December, 2001 ]

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Teacher/Classroom resources for connecting technology to curriculum

General Resources	Ask an Expert...	Learning to do research
Virtual Field Trips	Teacher Projects	School page examples

 

Educational resources by subject area

U.S.History	Mathematics and Pi	Math and History	Language arts/Literature
World History	Science and Weather	UN/International	Languages (bi-lingual )
Political Science	Social Science: General	Physical Education	Return to Home page

Search Tools	College Preparation	Sonoma County Resources
Reference Books	Magazines	General Resources
Software support		Newspapers/news services

 

Education resources by subject areas

These resources are primarily targeting 6-12 grade students, as per the California State subject area frameworks. They were selected to support research, resources and inquiry for teachers, students & parents. They represent a reference work in progress.

Mathematics

Welcome to the NCTM home page

Welcome to the National Council for teaching Mathematics home page. You can find the NCTM Standards here

http://www.nctm.org

Ask Dr. Math

One of my favorite sites on the web, its archive of frequently asked questions and "Dr. Math's" answers is a superb resource for math teachers and students. Students from Swarthmore College have a revived a 1994 program where K-12 students could send in questions to "experts" and get personal answers. Today the Web and email maintain that immediate and long term contact by Swarthmore's SWAT team.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html

Plane and Simple

This site contains an article and lessons on teaching the Cartesian Coordinate System to Pre-Algebra and Algebra students. It includes 8 hands-on activities that involve discussion, physical activities, writing and problem solving that are modeled on the NCTM standards.

http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/PandS.html#PandS

Forum Internet Resource Collection

The Swarthmore Math Forum has developed a distributed, universal index that can be relied on for up-to-date, comprehensive access to all of the sites and individual pages available for mathematics education.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/library/

Math Forum Home Page

Funded by the Nat'l Science Foundation, this Swarthmore site is a virtual center for math education on the Internet. Goal is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents & educators. Includes a math search engine.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

Frank Potter's Science/Math Gems

From UC Irvine, a wonderful collection of science and math links. The greatest strength of this page (and subsequent links) is its clear and clean organization by field and subject area.

http://www.sciencegems.com/

PBS MATHLINE

A collaboration between PBS and the NCTM designed to form "online learning communities" of groups of teachers, led by a trained facilitator. The Middle School Math Project begun in 1994 is now being followed by a similar Elementary School Project. Teacher

http://www.pbs.org/mathline/

Dave's Math Tables

Formulas and more formulas, neatly broken down by subject and part.

http://www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm

The Abacus

History, how to use; one to practice with.

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/

Martindale's 'The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line'

From the UC Irvine, this page is almost beyond imagination. 100+ calculators, conversions tables and weather from everywhere. Be sure to scroll beyond the initial directory for more details on each calculator.

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html

The Pythagorean Theorem

A nice introduction to the Pythagorean Theory, with several excellent proofs, both algebraic and geometry based, with Euclid's original proof. Some excellent gifs for printing and overheads

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt669/Student.Folders/Morris.Stephanie/EMT.669/Essay.1/Pythagorean.html

Exeter Kite Central

From the United Kingdom, a wonderful set of sites related to kites. In particular, hit the link labeled projects and try out the Sled Kite project.

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~jastaple/kites.html

Kite Flier's Site

Kites: histories, events and detailed instructions-a very comprehensive set of kite related links.

http://www.kfs.org/kites/

Zvi Har'El's M.C.Escher Collection

Over 60 of Escher's works, starting from very early in his career. Some color. The initial is jammed full of expandable gifs., therefore initial loading takes awhile; be patient

http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/

SCORE Mathematics:

Schools of California Online Resource for Educators

The SCORE Mathematics Homepage is one of four subject matter web pages called The Schools of California Online Resource for Educators (SCORE). This page is designed especially for mathematics teachers and students in California, the contents and links of which are intended to reflect our state's Mathematics Framework. It includes links and databases to connect you to math lessons and math resources, both by grade level and subject area.

http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/

Teachers Helping Teachers-Math

Some excellent math methodologies and lessons, although they are not indexed or in chronological grade levels. Therefore they require a lot of scrolling. The lessons are mostly K - 6.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/Math.html

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

Welcome to the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC), the nationally recognized information source for K-12 math & science teachers. Also, each month presents new math & science links. Includes lessons, activities and grant info

http://www.enc.org/index.htm

21st Century Problem Solving

Problem solving strategies for Algebra I, Chemistry and Physics. In particular, there are 13 great Algebra I story problems that illustrate their problem solving approach, with solution sets.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html

Currency Convertor

Just as it says, currency conversions for 180 exchanges.Great for math practice or comparing shopping lists between international classrooms.
http://www.davis-company.com/currconv.html

Mathematics: Vatican

This Library of Congress exhibit has manuscripts, art and history, from Rome to China and back. In particular, check out its history of mathematics section under original manuscripts: Euclid, Ptolemy and Apollonius

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Mathematics.html

A Brief History of Algebra and Computing:

An Eclectic Oxonian View

"If you are faced by a difficulty or a controversy in science, an ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument." J.B.S Haldane (1892-1964) . Oxford brings us a brief history of Algebra, wih superb links.

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/jonathan.bowen/algebra/

Calculus and Mathematica Home Page

Produced by the University of Illinois, it contains lessons for those using and teaching with Mathematica software.It also includes links to other sites using C & M and a superb WWW search engine home page.

http://www-cm.math.uiuc.edu/

Fun With Numbers

Find fun and crazy links to Pi, the powers of 2, factorials and Buckminster Fuller. Great for math teachers who want to create their own classroom posters.

http://newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/

This is Mega-Mathematics

From the Los Alamos Laboratory, excellent lessons for math concepts, especially for 4th -9th grades

http://www.c3.lanl.gov:80/mega-math/

AIMS Education Foundation

AIMS is the acronym for "Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science," the AIMS magazine home page is both educational, promotional and commercial. Fun activities to go along with their Historical Connections column (under what's new link).

http://www.aimsedu.org

Links to History of Mathematics pages

A browsers delight, another set of primary links to math related pages, from the University of Kansas.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/External/external_links.html

MathMagic!

Math Magic is a project designed for students to integrate the learning of problem solving skills with computer skills. Local grade level teams compete, via the net, against each other in problem solving.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/

Mathematics Archives WWW Server

Exceptional primary link page for mathematics, from software to abstracts.

http://archives.math.utk.edu/newindex.html

Explorer Home Page

From the Univ. of Kansas, this page contains countless math science resource materials. Although most are only available in Michigan and the East Coast, many have downloadable Claris and Adobe packages.

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer

Pi folder

Pi_through_the_ages

A pleasant and informative journey into the approximations of Pi.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

The Uselessness of +Pi and its irrational friends

Need links to Pi? Html's for Pi to the 100, 31,000 and 1,200,000 places. Play with "Friends of Pi" . And do not forget about the annual "PI DAY" on 3/14 [at 1.59 of course].

http://www.go2net.com/internet/useless/useless/pi.html

Pi picture

Just a cute graphic of pi for a color printer.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~eveander/pi.html

Fun With Numbers

Find fun and crazy links to Pi, the powers of 2, factorials and Buckminster Fuller. Great for math teachers who want to create their own classroom posters.

http://newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/ r own classroom posters.

http://www.newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/

Archimedes' Constant

More scholarly calculus and trigonometric approaches to looking at Pi. Also includes superb links to "Unsolved Mathematics Problems."

http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/pi/pi.html

Math and History

Women Mathematicians

An extensive set of well written biographies of women mathematicians, written by students from Agnes Scott College, Georgia.

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/

MacTutor History of Mathematics

This set of more than 100 HyperCard stacks was assembled at the university of St. Andrews, Scotland. In addition, it has a wonderful set of history topics from trig functions to pi to the beginning of the Quantum Age.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html

A Brief History of Algebra and Computing

Oxford university brings us a brief, entertaining and well linked history of algebra and Computing, from the ancients to analytical engines to recent developments.

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/jonathan.bowen/algebra/

Past Notable Women of Computing

This is one portion of the Yale ADA collection of resources for women in computing. In particular for the K-12 classroom, be sure to visit both the notable women of the past and of the present sections.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/~tap/past-women.html

Pi_through_the_ages

A pleasant and informative journey into the approximations of Pi.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

The History links to Mathematics

From Trinity College, Dublin, excellent resource for links to the history of mathematics

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html

AIMS Education Foundation

AIMS is the acronym for "Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science," the AIMS magazine home page is both educational, promotional and commercial. Fun activities to go along with their Historical Connections column (under what's new link).

http://www.aimsedu.org

Languages (Bilingual pages)

Universal Translator

This Altavista site will provide translations into English and frrom English to a dozen other languages. Although it translates literally, rather than in context, it is a wonderful tool. It can also translate an entire web page just by entering the URL.

Welcome to Coqui!

Great links for educators, especially for Spanish teachers, Spanish students or Spanish speakers. The Spanish links includes links to magazines, newspapers, countries and regions, education, food/recipes, music/art & personal pages.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4444/

Le Monde Diplomatique (french)

Le Monde Diplomatique's archives (in French, English, German) is a text archive for contemporary political, economic & social events world wide; the archives extend back two years. You can search by month or by keyword (thesaurus)

http://www.ina.fr/CP/MondeDiplo/EN/

Latin World - Latin America on the Net (Spanish)

Primary link for all things connected to latinos and Chicanos. Excellent search mechanism for Latino themes for North, Central and South American related information.

http://www.latinworld.com/

Nuevo (University of Guadalajara (Spanish)

Art, culture, pre-Columbian artifacts and more. Superb graphics. English and Spanish versions.

http://udgftp.cencar.udg.mx/ingles/CUAAD-INGLES.html

COLOQUIO

La Revista Cultural en espanol publicada mensualmente en Baltimore, Maryland. The Governor of Maryland's 1993 Award winner, it is a Hispanic Cultural magazine published monthly in the Spanish language. It is meant for the community & teachers of Spanish

http://coloquio.com/coloquio/coloquio.html

World of Vikings (Danish)

Coordinated by the Nat'l Museum of Denmark and the N.Y. Archeological Trust; home page links to Viking History, with a particular focus on the years 800Ð1100 CE; includes brief text histories, rune FTP's, photos and Viking MUD's.

http://www.pastforward.co.uk/vikings/index.html

NativeWeb Home Page

Welcome to NativeWeb, a project of many people. Our vision touches ancient teachings and modern technology. Our purpose: to provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples. Wide range of site organization tools.

http://www.nativeweb.org

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