Web+Sites

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/groundup/

//Telescopes from the Ground Up//, provides students with a variety of information to support a majority of units that are taught at the eighth grade level. This site allows students who do not have physical access to a variety of telescopes the opportunity to explore and learn about the many types of telescopes that exist. These sites allow students in a virtual setting the opportunity to explore basic concepts of light, color and optics. This site also allows students the chance to manipulate different types of lenses. This is such a valuable resource because it levels the playing field for schools that cannot afford such expensive tools.

http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/planetarium.html

//Animated Virtual Planetarium// allows students the chance to observe celestial bodies in schools that do have facilities such as observatories or planetariums. The Animated Virtual Planetarium allows students to do manipulation of viewing points across the planet. The ability to have students change their viewing location allows them to observe a variety of stars that are not visible from their home viewing location. Animated Virtual Planetarium also allows the students to use eclipse and comet predictors to forecast when and where the next comment/eclipse occurs.

http://www.cellsalive.com/meiosis.htm

//Cells Alive// allow students to see a variety of interactive cell models. It provides students with vocabulary reinforcements and interactive demonstrations that allow students to study each phase of the cell cycle. The site also allows students to see various types of infections first hand many of them the students have had some prior knowledge of. The ability to see these infections provide concrete examples of cell division, cell mutation, cell adaptation and even cell death.