BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The internet site found contained on this disk is the result of work completed by teachers who attended the Generation II: MASER project and the Mathematics and Science Internet Workshops held during the summers of 1997, 1998, 1999,  2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.   Workshop participants researched science Internet sites using a set of developed evaluation criteria.  A set of internet learning activities for teachers and students were developed which correlated directly with the Michigan Science Curriculum Framework. The result is that teachers and students will be able to use the resources as a learning tool which is fully integrated with their science curriculum.

This workshop was supported in part by the Mathematics and Science Center grant awarded by the Michigan Department of Education (State School Aid Act) and by SVSU Partnership Grant for Improving Teacher Quality awarded by the U.S. Department of Education (Title II funds)

Each site page contains hypertext links related to the major science topic contained on that page.  A short paragraph describes the type of information that can be found at each linked site.  Information on each page is organized by elementary (E), grades K-4; middle school (MS), grades 5-7; and high school (HS), grades 8-12. By clicking on the hypertext link, it will launch your internet connection to the source(s) to achieve the outcome.  Internet sites "New" to the disk are marked and sites found by participants to be "Outstanding" are also identified.

The General Internet Sites are Internet sites that do not meet specific science "Content Statements and Expectations". Listed are numerous outstanding sites which contain resources that will be useful to teachers.  The "General Science Sites" contain links to science knowledge in each of the major disciplines organized by grade levels. Also found in this area are resources on Assessments, Concept Maps and Misconceptions for Science. The "General Resources Sites" contains links to science media resources, encyclopedias, multiple subject indexes, women and minorities issues, careers in science, Teacher Resources 1 (Information / Pictures / Diagrams / Movies / Videos / Animations); Teacher Resources 2 (Science Fair Projects / Science Games & Activities / Science News / Live Web Cams / Museums & Science Centers) and links to Science Dictionaries. The "Using Internet Media Resources" contains information about using Internet media resources and other general information related to that topic.

INSTRUCTIONS

This disk contains an Internet web page site that can be run using any common Internet browser software (Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer, Safari, Firefox, etc.).

The user of this disk can launch the web site by clicking on the "Click Here to Start" alias Icon found on the disk.  The home page has hypertext links to all the individual web pages making up the site.  At the top and bottom of each page in the site is a hypertext link back to the home page.

To install this site on your computer, drag the disk Icon to your hard drive.  This will create a folder on your hard drive which will contain the site.  The site can be launched by opening this folder and clicking on the 'Click Here to Start" alias.