From: Ronald Wong (ronwong@inreach.com)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 11:58:23 PDT
Message-Id: <l03102800b57d9a455eb7@[209.209.19.172]> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:58:23 +0100 From: Ronald Wong <ronwong@inreach.com> Subject: stuff
mathematics - History, biographies (over 1300), and much more.
You can search by birthplace, birthdays (mathematician de jour), quotation,
birthplace, daily posters (probably one for every day of the year), sex
(loads of female mathematicians that I've never heard of), etc. Time lines
are available covering periods from the early Greeks to the 20th century.
Early Greek and Islamic mathematical efforts as well as current work is
covered (right up to January 2000) - and much more (like an illustrated
biography of Dürer for one). It's a fun place to poke around if you or your
students are so inclined.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/
Created by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson
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astronomy - extensive list of activities for K-12 students covering a wide
range of topics in astronomy.
It's called the "Good Astronomy Activities on the World Wide Web" by Andrew
Fraknoi (of Foothill College & the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
http://www.aspsky.org/education/astroacts.html
If you've "run out of" or "are looking for" ideas for activities/labs in
the area of astronomy here's a great place to start looking
Many of the activities offer teacher materials and student work sheets.
You'll find material here that is interactive and some of it uses the raw,
visual data available to the astronomer as the basis for the activity (such
as learning how to classify galaxies by using the pictures taken with the
Hubble Space Telescope). The range of activities run from the traditional
pencil and paper, to hands-on with common, everyday materials, and to
web-based activities (such as one where students build a galaxy like our
own out of components).
Like many websites that refer the visitor to other websites for
information, you may find yourself confronted with the "file not found"
page on occasion. The "How Many Days are in a Year?" activity is a good
example. The standard trick to finding the correct/new address (if there is
one) is to look at the location field in the header and strip the URL down
level by level. You start from the right and press the return key after
each deletion until you get a hit (in this example, stripping the URL all
the way down to http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov). Once there, you can usually
work your way from the webpage you've landed on to the one you are looking
for. You'll frequently find the process serendipitous. In this case, PUMAS
rearranged it's web site while Andrew Fraknoi wasn't looking.
Areas in which activities can be found:
General Astronomy
Moon Phases and Eclipses
The Seasons and the Sun in the Sky
Constellations and Sky Observing
The Scale of the Solar System
Planets and Satellites: General
Planets and Satellites: Specific Worlds
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites
The Sun
Stars and Stellar Evolution
Galaxies
Cosmology
Light and Color
Telescopes, Observing, and Instrumentation
The Universe at Many Wavelengths
The Search for Life Elsewhere
Debunking Pseudo-science
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Astronomy
Appendix: Some Activity Books That Can be Printed Out
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stuff - physical constants from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology
You won't find a better place for the most precise, up-to-date value for
your favorite physical constant. They're all here. There's other stuff here
that you might also find of interest.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
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