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This website has been developed to provide current
flood-related information such as water levels, weather conditions and
highway closures or restrictions. On this website you will also find the
latest flood forecast and valuable information on subjects such as health
issues related to flooding, a list of steps to take in case you are evacuated
and guidelines to follow when returning to a flood-damaged home
This site features an interactive atlas that can display
international locations on six continents; maps detailed to the highway and
boulevard level.Registration is free of charge. The US-only services on the
site include Tripquest, a route planner that covers the U.S., Canada and
Mexico.
The U.S.G.S. has created this site to describe different
types of maps and their uses. It explains the concept of scale. An
opportunity to learn about compasses and how they should be used is also
available.
Marie Currie went on to pioneer the study of
radioactivity, discover the elements polonium and radium, earn two Nobel
prizes and survive tragic personal loss and professional rivalries.
This site is primarily designed for students and teachers.
Visitors are invited to send in questions to the Pathfinder team. The archive
of questions is full of information such as what kind of computers and
software the Sojourner is using, human life on Mars, the incoming science
data, and much more, all answered by the designers, operators and scientists
themselves.
This web site was developed to help students improve their
math skills interactively. It includes games, flashcards and homework help
for elementary students.
Contains more than 100 on-line calculators for various
applications. Includes: code translators; finance and loans; distance;
banking; college; retirement/benefits; taxes; mathematics; medical
statistics, sailing; aeronautics; physics; sports and weather.
Gordon's Games has over 25 simple arithmetic games and
variations which are contained in a 24 page booklet. As well, there are
suggestions for similar games using number, letter, and word cards. There is
also a spelling game and an arithmetic game for the whole class.
Math Central is a service for people involved in mathematics
education from kindergarden to grade twelve -- a meeting place for teachers
to share resources, a service to teachers, studentsand parents who may need
an answer to a mathematical question and a facility to allow teachers tocarry
on a dialogue amongst themselves.
Are your students tired of the same old math lessons?
Challenge them with some brain-busters from the MATH FORUM MATH PUZZLES PAGE.
(K to 12 level)
This site serves as an on-line component of the reference
timekeeper. It also contains background information and a form that
calculates the sunrise, the sunset, the twilight, the moonrise, the moonset
and phase times for any U.S. location.
Gordon's Games has over 25 simple arithmetic games (math games)
and variations, made up by the author over a number of years in teaching
young children, which are contained in a 24 page booklet. As well, there are
suggestions for similar games using number, letter, and word cards. There is
also a spelling game, and an arithmetic game, for the whole class.
The purpose of this site is to provide students, teachers
and the general public with information about the rapidly growing fields of
molecular modeling. Highly recommended for K-12 students.
Simply fill in the spaces with your own information (loan
balance, interest rate, etc.) and click! You can adjust your monthly mortgage
payments and save thousands of dollars !! Great learning tool!!
This site contains more than 70 math sites for
Kindergarten to Grade 12 and about 40 math software sites.
Thoth's Place is intended to provide support for teachers,
parents, and learners. The site is a carefully selected, and constantly
evolving system of links to other Internet sites, Thoth's Place provides
access to information, ideas, and dialogue with others.
The currency universal currency converter performs
conversions flawlessly -- and as fast as a speeding data packet. Most, but
not all, countries are represented.
MEDLINE provides access to over nine million scientific
articles published in various biomedical journals. The National Library of
Medicine's site provides a directory of health topics for consumers and
professionals, with information on everything from aging and allergies to
sleep disorders and STDs.
This is a premium site for information on all aspects of
Mexico as a country to learn about or visit.
This site searches through the largest repository of food,
cooking and recipe resources on the World Wide Web with more sites added
daily.
MobiNet is a software for programming the behavior of animated mobile
objects using an intuitive interface and language. MobiNet is totally interactive,
easing learning and tuning of mobiles. Moreover, MobiNet is built to work in
network (but it can also be used on a standalone computer). MobiNet is
especially interesting as a pedagogic platform, for initiating students (from
high school to university) to games programming, or more generally to provide
them with a concrete intuitive and fun version of the notions seen in math
and physics course.
Learn all you wish to learn about this beautiful and
mysterious site.
Simply fill in the spaces with your own information (loan
balance, interest rate, etc.) and click! You can adjust your monthly mortgage
payments and save thousands of dollars !! Great learning tool!!
A site with events of interest from classical music to the
US Open Snowboarding Championships. It features biking in the Balkans,
mountain climbing in Central Asia and the World Extreme Skiing Championship
in Valdez, Alaska.
Your favourite kiddie host is on-line with his very own
Mr. Rogers home page. Mr. Rogers wants you to read his Internet greeting,
check out those "plan and play activities" and memorize Mr. Rogers'
booklist. Best of all, you can learn the lyrics to Mr. Rogers' most popular
songs.
All the information you require on Jim Henson's
Muppets.
This site features collections in earth and life sciences,
decorative arts and archeology, in addition to activities for children, VR
tours and an identification clinic on-line.
A guide to museums and cultural resources. The site
contains a searchable index of museums worldwide.
A unque site comprising museums from the four corners of
the globe.
Archives & Museum Informatics offers "consulting,
publishing, and training for cultural heritage professionals," which
makes them uniquely qualified to evaluate the best new museum sites on the
Net.
Discover Happy Note! a REAL computer game that will teach
you musical notation even as you play!
This educational supplement to a travelling exhibit about
what makes music is part of the virtual museum at the Franklin Institute
Science Museum.
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