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This guide shows teachers and students how to locate and view satellites in orbit. Topics include how to observe, some of the brighter objects such as the International Space Station and Space Shuttles, and how to use orbital tracking programs to identify which satellites are visible. Full description.
Grade level: High (9-12), College (13-14)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Space science, Technology
 
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This tutorial provides instruction in algebra and trigonometry. Although intended as a refresher, it should be understandable to students who are new to the material as well as provide new insights to those who are already familiar with it. Full description.
Grade level: High (9-12)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Mathematics
 
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This tutorial explains how satellite images are taken, transmitted to Earth, and converted into viewable form. Descriptions of each phase of the process are included: capture and transmittal of the image by a satellite or spacecraft, receiving the signal at one of the Deep Space Network's antennas, and processing the data into an image at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Multimission Image Processing ... Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8), High (9-12)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Space science
 
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This site is part of a step-by-step process which explores the design elements of a web lesson. The aim of this essay is to make teachers aware of the considerations of learning goals that will influence the shape of their course, and to emphasize that the key to developing effective technology-based learning activities is to start with clear goals about desired outcomes. The site also provides a ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This brief tutorial presents information about how students can be supported in acquiring information processing skills as technology, particularly the internet and the web, is integrated into schools and classrooms. The author uses text, slides, exercises, and example resources to discuss how to use scaffolding techniques in web-based learning. He defines scaffolding as supportive, task-oriented, ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Educational theory and practice, Technology
 
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This Module Maker tutorial uses templates to show users how to build online research modules that structure and guide student research efforts towards higher level thinking. Completed modules should be able to challenge students' critical thinking skills while supplying them with information to support such thinking. The tutorial discusses why strong questioning skills are essential to successful ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Educational theory and practice, Technology
 
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This site allows students to interactively explore the answers to basic questions regarding fossils. It explains what we can learn from fossils and demonstrates how their characteristics can be used as clues to the past. Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8), High (9-12)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Paleontology
 
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National Science Education Standards (NSES): Read
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This site focuses on salt marsh environments such as beaches, dunes, and estuaries. Specifics include the diversity of flora and fauna in coastal areas, the ecology of these areas, threats to these environments, and habitat information. Designed as an electronic tour, it guides the user through different web sites as stops, providing a comprehensive overview of salt marshes. It outlines teaching objectives, ... Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8), High (9-12)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Biology, Ecology
 
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These simple diagrams of the structure and materials of a volcano show a magma chamber and define magma as molten rock that is located under the surface of the Earth, lava as the same material when it hardens on the surface, and tuff if it hardens in the air. A dike is described and a photograph of Devil's Tower in Wyoming is shown as an example of an ancient conduit. Other terms defined and depicted ... Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Geology
 
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This site contains information about the crust, lithosphere, mantle, convection currents, outer core and inner core of the Earth. The composition and thickness of each of the layers are described along with how they work together. The site also contains goals, objectives, and materials, a hands-on demonstration, and discussion questions with answers. Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8)
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Geology
 
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