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Volume 12 Issue 24
June 17, 2008

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THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS
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Solar Eclipse
A sub-site of the amazing Exploratorium: Don’t look right at it.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r0907-10.shtml

Physlets (PHYSics appLETS)
More than 100 applets that help teach physics in a lively way.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r0907-07.shtml

Astronomy Online
The whole universe on one Web site? Maybe.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r0907-05.shtml

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REVIEWS
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Solar Eclipse
A sub-site of the amazing Exploratorium: Don’t look right at it.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r0907-10.shtml

REVIEW: A+
Solar Eclipse provides students and teachers lots of information and resources for learning about solar eclipses. The site is divided into three main sections: Webcasts, Features, and Resources. The Webcasts section offers archives of solar eclipses from 1998 to 2006, including the eclipse in Greece in 2006 and in the U.S. in 2002, as well as the rarest eclipse, the transit of Venus in June, 2004. Visitors can read articles about the myths surrounding the eclipse, the earth-sun connection, and journal excerpts from eclipse expeditions dating back to 1901 in the Features area. The Resources section explains what to look for during a solar eclipse, how to create a pinhole projector for viewing an eclipse safely, why eclipses happen, a world map of future eclipses, stories of individual experiences witnessing an eclipse, and a list of annotated links to more information.

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Physlets (PHYSics appLETS)
More than 100 applets that help teach physics in a lively way.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r0907-07.shtml

REVIEW: A+
Teachers will be delighted with the applets found here to use as demonstrations to accompany their lectures. The neat thing is you don’t have to be a Java expert to use these materials. The site gives students easy access to customized curricular material on such topics as kinematics, force, momentum, torque, gravity, optics, electrostatics, circuits, and much more. Users will want to begin by reading through the introduction on using these phsylets before moving on to explore the more than one hundred that are available. The Physlets are grouped into two major categories, Physics 1 Applets and Physics 2 Applets, with sub-categories for each.

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Astronomy Online
The whole universe on one Web site? Maybe.
http://educationworld.com/awards/2007/r0907-05.shtml

REVIEW: A+
Astronomy Online provides a wealth of resources and information for teachers, students, or anyone interested in astronomy. The content is arranged into nine broad categories including Observation, Science, Solar System, Stars, Our Galaxy, Cosmology, Astrobiology, Exop***ts, and Astrophotography. Each main category is grouped into easily followed sub-categories that cover such topics as constellations, astronomy tools, the solar system formation, stellar evolution, and much more. Each of the topics includes a number of informative and illustrated essays with embedded links that lead to even more information. Visitors won’t want to miss the Astrophotography section as it contains some magnificent professional photographs from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope at the top of Mauna Kea, as well as some excellent amateur images of the solar system, star clusters, nebulae, and more.

Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom
Many books on classroom management are aimed at K-8 or, more often, the early end of that range. So here is a "grown up" classroom management book that takes an approach and adopts a style more in keeping with the college-preparatory level (whether the kids are actually sitting down and getting enough work done to get into college is another question!). In particular, this book's appendices, including observation and analysis worksheets and a student satisfaction survey, are a good commbination of the practical tool often found for younger grades and the more "adult" methodology appropriate to high schoolers.
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Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading
A guide to developing ambitious thematic units, a "balance diet" reading list of 150 books of interest to teens, and special help tips for students who struggle with reading, all help make this book a strong candidate for becoming a core content-area-reading playbook for middle school and high school teachers.
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