Making Connections: Communicating Online

Discovery site: http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

ePAL’s Classroom Exchange: http://www.epals.com

Lightspan Network: http://www.lightspan.com

The oz-TeacherNet site: http://www.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet

Rubistar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org

Scholastic Web site: http://www.scholastic.com

The Staff Room for Ontario ’s K –12 Teachers: http://www.quadro.net/~ecoxon/Reporting/rubrics.htm

Change the Curriculum; Not the Technology

http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/neacom10.html

http://www.nclb.gov/next/overview/

http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/Labaree/Writing/ChronicFailure.PDF

http://myweb.lmu.edu/mryan/Curriculum%20History%20Project/

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/ilt/papers/construct.html

http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/jcs/98fall/sabar.html

http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/ed555/zone3/histroy2.htm

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdbest/mac/future.htm

"The Times They Are A-Changin'"

National Institute of Standards and Technology: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/

US Naval Observatory ’s Cesium Atomic Clocks site: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cesium.html

Eric Weisstein ’s World of Astronomy: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy

NOAA Improved Sunrise, Sunset, and Solar Noon Calculation: http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html

From Stargazers to Starships: http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/

Brittanica.com Clockworks:Measuring Time: http://www.britannica.com/clockworks/article2.html

Hipparchus: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hipparchus.html

The Julian and Gregorian Calendars: http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.htm

Information on Leap Years from the US Naval Observatory: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/leap_years.html

The SkyWiseArchive: http://www.mangobay.cc/users/moonfi nder/subject.htm (Click on Calendar and Timekeeping and then click on Gregorian Calendar.)

Julian Date Converter: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html

Ask the Space Scientist about:Earth –Rotation: http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/arot.html

The Nine Planets –The Moon: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html

Curious About Astronomy:Is the Moon moving away from the Earth? http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=124