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THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS
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This week, Education World reviewed three Web sites of interest to educators.

Carmine's Landscape Adventure
A cyber art studio for budding J.M.W. Turners.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-01.shtml

Probability Tutorials
What are the chances…?
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0108-30.shtml

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Education
Ocean motion: all about marine life in America's national sanctuaries.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0108-28.shtml

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REVIEWS
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Carmine's Landscape Adventure
A cyber art studio for budding J.M.W. Turners.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-01.shtml

REVIEW: A
Children will enjoy learning about the use of depth, light and atmosphere in creating landscapes in this interactive game. The simple tutorials teach children about setting the mood, using size to make objects look close or far away, and how to use lighting and objects to show the weather. Simple interactive quizzes throughout the games reinforce the basic concepts.

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Probability Tutorials
What are the chances…?
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0108-30.shtml

REVIEW: A
This site offers students a chance to review or learn about probability. It covers almost every aspect of the subject within twenty detailed tutorials. Topics include measurability, product spaces, Jensen inequality, finite variation, differentiation, and Gaussian measure among others. These tutorials are accompanied by a page of Proved Theorems, a glossary of terms, and a history page with links to biographies of all the mathematicians mentioned in the tutorials. The solutions to exercises are provided and can be printed. Included is a discussion board, a page describing the notations used and links for further exploration.

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NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Education
Ocean motion: all about marine life in America's national sanctuaries.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0108-28.shtml

REVIEW: A+
The National Marine Sanctuaries Education site offers teachers and students a wealth of information and resources for teaching and learning about the incredible diversity of life and habitats in the National Marine Sanctuaries. Visitors to the site will want to begin by taking the virtual Sanctuary Tour where they can observe the sanctuary habitats by viewing video clips and image galleries with stunning photographs. Students will go for the Fun section that includes high-tech simulations and games as well as coloring books, puzzles, and more. Or, they might like the Student section, where they will find interactive digital labs and activities, online story books, information on marine careers, activities, free materials, and other cool stuff. For teachers, there are curriculum offerings such as the “Oceans for Life Lesson Plans and Videos” that include twelve free and downloadable lesson plans and short videos. There is also the &ldq uo;Navigating Change Curriculum." Other activities include “Coral Cores: Ocean Timelines” and an activity about how to foster a “Coral Spawning Globe." In all, this site provides a good range of short-term and longer-term learning experiences for a range of grades.

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Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn
Montessori is one of those words in education that evokes a little mystery, especially for those of us who haven't really been immersed in the theories or practice associated with the name. This book takes an unusual approach to introducing us to Montessori: It is really a teacher's first-person account of the experience of teaching using Montessori methods, together with enough theory and practice to make it possible for other teachers to pick and choose those concepts that seem most applicable to their own "non-Montessori" classrooms.
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Case Studies for Teacher Problem Solving
With 37 detailed case studies, this book takes almost a Harvard Business School approach to illuminating the problems teachers must solve in classrooms every day. Certainly, reading this book would present a classroom teacher with a number of situations that, even if he or she might never encounter those situations exactly, should open up new avenues of thought concerning situations indeed faced regularly. An advantage to this approach is its open-endedness; the reader is inspired to think independently rather than prescribed definite solutions.
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