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Mathematics - Aunty
Math - Every other week is a new math
challenge for Aunty Math's niece and nephews. These challenges come in the form
of story problems. Your class can post their solutions and strategies and look
at others answers also. Past archives with answers. Grades K-5
- Math
quizzes - There are four separate math quizzes and each one
features a new quiz for each day of the quiz. That's 28 to choose from. These
will tease your brain!
- Nick's
Mathematical Puzzles - The puzzles
presented here are selected for the deceptive simplicity of their statement, or
the elegance of their solution. They range over geometry, probability, number
theory, algebra, calculus, and logic. All require a certain ingenuity, but usually
only pre-college math. Some puzzles are original. Nick plans to add one new puzzle
each week, there are already 70 to choose from.
- Platonic
Realms features a daily math moment, historical fact
and quotation.
- Problem
of the Week - for anyone looking for
a challenge
- Problem
of the Week from MathCounts - Updated every Monday morning,
the problem of the week covers a variety of topics, and always focuses on a current
newsworthy event. On the right side of the page you will find links to yearly archives that go back to 2000.
- White
House Kids Math Challenge - Five categories; elementary,
middle, high, open, and a past problems archive
- Word
Problems For Kids - Hosted by St. Francis Xavier University,
this site features about 4 dozen word problems, and solutions, for each grade
level from 5 - 12
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| Science
- Astronomy
Picture of the Day - Discover the
cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is
featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
APOD's archive extends back to June 16, 1995.
- Braindrops
- Expand your knowledge of the science around you with a daily
Braindrop. This neat site is from the Franklin Institute Online.
- The
Inventor of the Week - Part of MIT's
Invention Dimension site. They have an archive that is organized alphabetically
by inventors' last names.
- Molecule
of the Month - one of the longest running scientific websites, on the web
since October 1996
- Physics
Question of the Week from The University of Maryland Department of Physics
- Each week a new question will be posted and the answer for the previous Question
of the Week will be shown. The questions involve real experimental physics, so
part of the answers will be photographs and even short videos of the experiments
carried out in determining the answers.
- Question
of the Day from PhysLink, physics and astronomy online education and reference
(Actually, this is the answer of the day.)
- Radar
Loop of the last 2 hours covering the contiguous United States. This Doppler
radar site indicates clouds, rain and snow with different colors, and refreshes
4 times per hour. Intellicast now offers a 12 hour java loop. More importantly, this loop allows you to step forward,
or backward, one image at a time.
- The
Science Question of the Week - These are high level questions designed for high school.
The Science Question of the week was brought to you by Jim Foster of NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center. The site has not been added to since 5/26/06, but offers a great archive of questions.
- The
Southeast Regional Climate Center Weather Quiz is composed
of weather-related questions that have been randomly selected. The test is targeted
at elementary school students, but may provide some challenge to people of all
ages. The quiz is updated daily with a new list of questions.
- Today's
Headlines - Links to the latest in science research news
- Tonight's Sky from Amazing Space [click on the Play Movie button to see a description of the current month's night sky]
- This movie is also available from the Hubble Site
- Tonight's Sky - This site will help you plan you observing sessions by helping you find objects of interest in your sky. Based on your input below a list of objects will be produced that are visible at your location when you plan to observe. Any object below the local horizon will be excluded.
- Weather
Image of the Day - from the Operational
Significant Event Imagery (OSEI) support team of the Satellite Services Division
(SSD) of the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS),
a division of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Who
Is That? - Students see a portrait
of a famous scientist or mathematician and one to four clues, depending on the
level of difficulty. This is one of the great games found at Funbrain.
- Memphis
Weather (i4c is based in Memphis, but you can find links to your local
weather at most of these sites)
- The
National Weather Service gives current conditions and
a 24 hour summary.
- USA
Today reports Memphis weather and a 4 day forecast.
- Weather
Underground gives the current forecast including sunrise/sunset,
moonrise/moonset, moon phases, and a 6 day forecast with images you could download
to create your own graphs in multimedia software.
- The
Weather Channel gives current Memphis weather and a 10 day forecast. This site has a new look with several radar options.
- CNN
Weather gives a 9 day forecast with the current weather.
- World
Science - science news "long before it's in the papers"
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Social Studies - Daily
Lesson Plans from the NY Times - An
excellent resource for Middle and High School students. Lesson plans are created
daily using the newspaper for Current Events. Academic Standards are listed as
well as overviews, activities, procedures and resources needed.
- Information
on obtaining classroom copies
of the NY Times newspaper (for a fee) (.pdf document)

- Happy
News - Start the day upbeat! "As far as anyone can tell, it's the first
international and national daily news organization dedicated exclusively to upbeat
stories." Dallas Morning News
- Geobee
Quiz - Play the new GeoBeeQuiz! Show
your geography smarts right here online. Each day five new questions from the
National Geographic Bee will be posted. Come back every day for brand-new questions
and another chance to beat the Bee!
- Geography
Quiz - Weekly quiz with answers. Huge selection of archived
quizzes.
- Global
Incident Map - As always, preview first. A global
display of terrorism and other suspicious events. Website and information on each
incident is given.
- On
This Day in History - from MIStupid.com,
almost from the beginning of time, historical events and happenings are listed.
- This
Day in History - presented by The History Channel. What happened
today? Many categories to choose like Wall Street, Cold War and more.
- This
Day in Asian History - presented by the Asian Society.
- Today
in History - A service of the Library
of Congress. This site includes a comprehensive set of links regarding the featured
historical event. They also include an archive.
- Who
Is That? - Students see a portrait of a U. S. president and
one to four clues, depending on the level of difficulty. This is one of the great
games found at funbrain.com
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| Ask
an Expert - The
Community Learning Network of Canada has a listing of "ask an expert" sites.
- Refdesk.com
has a large listing of experts you can ask.
- Ask
the Space Scientist - A set of Frequently Asked Questions
with answers by space scientists.
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