Web-Based Science Networks
Water What-ifs
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/depot/experiments/water/
Water What-ifs is a Web site for encouraging inquiry investigations of water
quality in North Carolina and Delaware. Students engage in water quality
testing to monitor specific parameters in local sources of water. Data is
collected and analyzed to compare the ecological health of different bodies of
water in these two states.
One Sky, Many Voices
http://onesky.engin.umich.edu/
The mission of the One Sky, Many Voices Project is to create innovative,
inquiry-based K-12 weather curricula that utilize current technologies such as
CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web for the interactive study of current weather
and air quality. Students, teachers, parents and scientists can participate from
classrooms, homes, or other educational settings. Four-week and eight-week
programs centered around environmental science themes are featured at this
Web site. Programs run during set time periods so that individuals worldwide
can coordinate their learning with many other participants.
Estuary-Net Project
http://inlet.geol.scarolina.edu/estnet.html
Estuary-Net is an excellent Web site for teachers to use guided inquiry learning
activities in their classroom. Estuary-Net was developed by the National
Estuarine Research Reserve System in response to water quality issues arising
in coastal areas. This project strives to develop collaborations among high
schools, community volunteer water quality monitoring groups, local officials,
state Coastal Zone Management (CZM) programs and National Estuarine Research
Reserves (NERRS) to solve non-point source pollution problems in estuaries and
their watersheds. This
Web site provides comprehensive information about characteristics of
estuaries, estuarine ecology, water quality monitoring, and quality assurance,
quality control, and standard operating procedures of a water quality
monitoring program.
This Web site provides many classroom activities from the Estuary-Net
curriculum. The classroom activities are divided into three levels in order to
provide various degrees of involvement in the subject, ranging from lab
experiments to single field experiences to long-term monitoring. The benefit of
this scaffolding is that schools which do
not have easy access to watershed areas can still participate in the
Estuary-Net activities by engaging in hands-on/minds-on laboratory activities.
All Estuary-Net activities contain objectives, assessments, time needed,
materials, procedures, and hypotheses.
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