High School Information Technology Center Coordinator, Mrs. Ruth de Luna shares with the community ten (10) websites that can serve as teaching and learning tools.

1. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Aside from lesson plans, this site offers brain boosting activities to serve as ice breakers during class.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

2. SOS MATH was established in 1995 by three Mathematics PhDs. This offers a variety of lessons on Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Diff equations & complex variables among others.  Moreover, this site offers sample quizzes and a forum where students can register and post questions or interact with the administrators and other students all over the world.

http://www.sosmath.com/

3. The Visible Earth from NASA is a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth. Major headings include agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, land surface, and oceans. The images have descriptions, where or how the image was created (space shuttle, Jet Propulsion Lab, Landsat). Click on Browse to see the wide variety of subjects housed at this site, it is a must stop for any class discussing weather, plate tectonics, and biomes. You can also browse by sensors or location. Note: QuickTime is required for animations.

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

4. 1001 Periodic Table Quiz Questions contains "over 1000 Science and Chemistry Questions Per Grade Level and Topic for School, College and University Students. " It allows students or teachers to quiz themselves about the periodic table, with a score sheet at the end of each quiz to check their ratings. Good for students preparing for exams.

http://www.1001-periodic-table-quiz-questions.com/

5. SMILE PROGRAM CHEMISTRY INDEX contains sample lessons on Chemistry.some of which shows experiments applying chemistry to daily life and making use of everyday things to relate to chemistry concepts.

http://www.iit.edu/~smile/cheminde.html

6. Knowing Edgar Allan Poe “The telltale heart beats, the raven croaks, and you enter the life and times of Edgar Allan Poe. This site is full of fun activities where you are in the midst of the action searching for the cause of Poe's death or trying to decipher one of his messages in secret writing. In "School Days" you figure out what Poe's bills at boarding school were when he was nine years old and then you figure out your expenses for a year of school, housing, food and other typical expenses. Plan to spend lots of time here, there are many avenues to explore. With RealPlayer, you can view some video clips including the entire poem "The Raven" read by John Astin (Sean's father)."

http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp

 7. Color Vision & Art “ The science of vision and the emergence of art is the subject of this site which investigates how our eyes and light work and how artists over the generations have used color in their paintings. Other topics include peripheral vision, luminance and equiluminance (used to blur outlines and suggest motion). Many of the paintings have a sliding scale for you to experiment with color saturation. There is detailed information about rods and cones in your eyes, egg tempra and oil paints, and the role of varnish in a painting.”

http://webexhibits.org/colorart/index.html

8. Merriam-Webster Online allows visitors to access their dictionary and thesaurus database without subscription fees. The site has the ability to give a word’s definition, etymology and even pronunciation. As a plus, it has the “Word for the Day” component which may be sent through one’s email to give provide instant words to fill one’s vocabulary.

http://www.m-w.com

9. The Inventor of the Week is a part of MIT’s Invention Dimension site. Everyday the life and works of a new inventor is presented through their index site. If you missed as particular inventor, they have an archive organized alphabetically by inventor’s last name.

http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-main.html

10. Collapse Why do civilizations fall? War, drought, natural disaster, disease, overpopulation, economic disruption can occur alone or in combination to bring a civilization down. This site investigates why the Maya, cultures in Mesopotamia, Chaco Canyon, Mali and Songhai disappeared. The Maya exhibit has a virtual archaeological dig to look for clues into the collapse of Copan. Sift through information about monuments, people, bones, botany, and houses and note your discoveries in an online journal. Information about how archaeologists find, interpret, and date evidence they have found.

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/

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