www.atoptics.co.uk Atmospheric Optics is a stunning collection of pictures that illustrate the strange and beautiful visual phenomena created by light, weather, and our atmosphere. Check out photos and explanations for everything from rainbows and ice halos to nacreous clouds and anti-crepuscular rays.
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Exploratorium
www.exploratorium.edu The Web site of San Francisco’s Exploratorium is an excellent resource for kids interested in finding out how the world around them works. Like its meatspace counterpart, the virtual Exploratorium emphasizes scientific discovery through activities and demonstrations, and there is plenty of fun content to keep curious kids engaged.
Nationmaster
www.nationmaster.com Don’t worry, it sounds more ominous than it really is. NationMaster aggregates world data on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects, letting you compare nations with one another based on many different criteria. For instance, America kicks the rest of the world’s butt at soft-drink consumption.
Search Me
www.searchme.com Searchme is an innovative search engine that essentially uses Apple’s Cover Flow interface to present your search results. To search, enter a term and then scroll horizontally through full previews of each relevant Web page until your find what you’re looking for. You can also create “Stacks” of bookmarked Web pages to revisit later.
Tag Galaxy
Visual representations of data are nothing new, but Tag Galaxy takes it to new heights in searching Flickr photos. Enter a single keyword (I used “frog”) and you’ll see a 3D representation of a solar system with the keyword as the sun, orbited by related word “planets” (e.g., “amphibian,” “green,” and “toad”). Click a planet Full Article…
Learning by quizzing
Students can use the LearningApps I’ve mentioned before to create little interactive quizzes for their classmates. The website enables you to create accounts for your students, so they don’t have to register themselves. I used this in my history lessons and I’m really happy with the results. The students had to use books and other Full Article…
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