INTERNET LINKS:
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TUTORIALS:
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| Surfing Lessons
URL: www.svusd.k12.ca.us/surfinglessons
This site is an online tutorial on how to use Netscape. You can walk through all of the features at your own pace. |
| An Introduction to the Internet by PBS
URL: www.pbs.org/uti/begin.html
Learn the terminology and facts about the Internet on this site. |
FUN SITES:
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| Groundhog Day
URL: http://www.groundhog.org/
Punxsutawney Phil, famous weather prognosticator, makes his prediction on Groundhog Day. Features Quicktime VR movies. |
| Zip2
URL: www.zip2.com
Find door to door directions as well as map. |
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY:
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| Saddleback Valley's AUP
URL: www.svusd.k12.ca.us/aup
This is SVUSD's Electronic Network Agreement Form. All of the SVUSD staff and students are required to sign this form in order to use the Internet. |
SEARCH ENGINES:
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| Yahoo
URL: www.yahoo.com
A great directory. One of the most popular ways to search. |
| Yahooligans
URL: www.yahooligans.com
This is an excellent search engine for students because the sites it searches have been reviewed and have relevance to education. |
| Alta Vista
URL: www.altavista.com |
| Excite
URL: www.excite.com |
| SEARCH.COM
URL: www.search.com
Uses Infoseek. Search the whole Web, or use the pull-down menu at the top of their home page to limit your query within specific categories. |
| Hotbot
URL: www.hotbot.com
Wired magazine's search engine. Searches 50 million sites. |
META SEARCH ENGINES:
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| Metafind
URL: www.metafind.com
This is a multi-engine search tool. It will search: |
| Dog Pile
URL: www.dogpile.com
This is a multi-engine search tool. It will search:
Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, Go2.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, AltaVista, Excite & HotBot. Usenet: Hotbot, Reference, Dejanews, AltaVista and Dejanews' old Database. FTP: Filez and FTP Search. (Only the first word will be passed on to FTP Search.) News Wires: Yahoo News Headlines, Excite News and Infoseek NewsWires. |
LISTS OF LINKS:
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| Frank Potters Science Gems
URL: http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html
Look at this fantastic list of Science sites developed by UCI Professor Frank Potter and consultant Jim Martindale. |
| Saddleback Valley Unified School District's Curricular Links
URL:http://svusd.k12.ca.us/resources/InternetLinks.stm
This shows links organized by curricular area. |
| LA Times Launch Point
URL: http://www.latimes.com/launchpoint/
Launch Point is a joint project of The Times Orange County and the UC Irvine Department of Education. Great project sites and direct link to educational sites. |
| Saddleback Valley Unified School District's Grade Level Links
URL: http://svusd.k12.ca.us/resources/Curriculum/default.stm
Find a specific link that fits with your curriculum at your grade level and subject area.
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INTERNET LINKS:
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Program Two
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TEACHERS FAVORITES
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| PacBell's Blue Webn Site
URL: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Excellent links on this site. Full of great lesson plans and curriculum centered links. |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium
URL: http://www.usw.nps.navy.mil/~millercw/aq/
Find out the latest events and research at one of America's largest aquariums. |
| Cornell Law
URL: www.law.cornell.edu
The Cornell Law site. |
| Chico High School Library
URL: http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/libr/webres/helpful.html
An excellent one page list of links. Great for research and study. |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
URL: http://www.whoi.edu/
Marine research at its best. A great K-12 resource section giving schools resources about ocean topics. |
FEATURED EDUCATIONAL SITES:
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| SCORE SITES
SCORE - Schools of California - Online Resource for Education. This is s California California Technology Assistance Program project provided free to our district.
SCORE - Mathematics
SCORE - Language Arts
SCORE - Science
SCORE - History/Social Science |
| Frank Potters Science Gems
URL: http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html
Look at this fantastic list of Science sites developed by UCI Professor Frank Potter and consultant Jim Martindale. |
| Nanoworld
URL: http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/nanohome.html
The Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis is an interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated to an understanding of the structure and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and macromolecular scales. |
| Caltrans
URL: http://www.scubed.com/caltrans/
Real-time traffic and weather reports for Southern California. |
| Frog and Toad CyberGuide
URL: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/frog/frogtg.html
Find student activities, rubrics and links to the net. |
| Of Mice and Men CyberGuide
URL: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/mice/micetg.html
Find student activities, rubrics and links to the net. |
| AltaVista Search and Translation Services.
URL: http://www.altavista.digital.com
Translate a page into French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish and back again. |
| KV5
URL: www.kv5.com
Join archaeologists in Egypt's Valley of the Kings as they post their discoveries on the web as soon as they are made. This find of the century is KV5 thought to be the mausoleum of as many as 50 sons of Ramses II, one of Egypt's most important pharaohs. Leader of the expedition, Kent Weeks of American University in Cairo, says that more than 110 rooms have already been found, and thousands of artifacts. This website is growing by the week with postings of new discoveries,discussions by archaeologists, pictures of tomb painting and much more. |
| Scholastic Online
URL: http://www.scholastic.com
Scholastic is full of resources for teachers. Projects and experts add a new dimension to traditional lessons. |
FUN SITES:
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| MovieLink
URL: http://www.movielink.com
Check your local theater to see what's playing. Find out more information about movies including reviews. |
| Dancing Baby
URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rlussier/animpage.htm
See the baby that was on Ally McBeal. Whatch him dance. |
| Twinkie Experiments
URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gouge/twinkies.html
Two college students use the scientific method on a twinkie. Find out all of the strange but true facts about twinkies. |
Plug-ins and Add-ons
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| Adobe
URL: http://www.adobe.com
Download the Acrobat reader from this site. Acrobat reads and prints documents that are on the web in the PDF format. |
| Apple's QuickTime Plug-in
URL: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/sw/index.html
Allows you to view QuickTime Movies through your browser. Read all of the instructions to determine what version you need. |
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INTERNET LINKS:
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Program Three
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TEACHERS FAVORITES
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| PacBell's Blue Webn Site
URL: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Excellent links on this site. Full of great lesson plans and curriculum centered links. |
| Scholastic Online
URL: http://www.scholastic.com
Scholastic is full of resources for teachers. Projects and experts add a new dimension to traditional lessons. |
FEATURED EDUCATIONAL SITES:
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| The Global School Network
URL: http://www.gsn.org
This is site is a FANTASTIC place to find an online project. |
| GSN's News Day Project
URL: http://www.gsn.org/project/newsday/index.html
Newsday is a multi-curricular project in which your students produce their own newspaper based on the news articles submitted to the Newsday news wire by cooperating student correspondents. Your students become news gatherers and reporters, editors, layout and graphics artists, and publishers. Participation on an international scale leads to understanding of broad issues which transcend local concerns. This project can involve your students in weeks of cross-curricular activity. |
| GSN's Geogame Project
URL: http://www.gsn.org/project/gg/index.html
The object of this game is to try to learn where the TEACHER PAL classrooms are located; and, learn a little United States geography at the same time. |
| GSN's Woodsy the Woodchuck Buddy
URL: http://www.gsn.org/project/woodsy/index.html
Follow this little stuffed animal in his adventures around the world or start your own travel buddy project. |
| PacBell's Blue Webn Site
URL: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Excellent links on this site. Full of great lesson plans and curriculum centered links. |
| Hewlett Packard Telementoring Project
URL: http://mentor.external.hp.com/
The HP E-Mail Mentor program creates one-to-one mentor relationships between HP employees and 5-12th grade students and teachers. HP employees motivate students to excel in math and science and improve communication and problem solving skills. In addition, HP employees help students develop the skills they need to pursue professional interests in a successful way. |
| Hello Dolly "the cloning project"
URL: http://204.102.137.135/PUSDRBHS/science/clone/dolly.htm
An Inquiry-Oriented Activity Where Learners Interact With The Internet, Evaluate Information, And Formulate A Solution To A Complex Problem. |
FUN SITES:
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| Four11
URL: http://www.four11.com
Find a person online! This has sections to find businesses and persons. You can even find E-Mail addresses. |
| FTD online
URL: http://www.ftd.com/
Send your loved one some flowers for Valentine's Day. |
| Phonetic
URL: http://www.phonetic.com
Find out what your phone number spells! |
| Magic Trick Online
URL: http://pw2.netcom.com/~sleight/index.html
Try this online magic trick. |
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- Wired to the Web - Now What? What is it? - Homework - Quiz - Schedule - Credit - Sites
- Saddleback Valley Unified School District - KOCE Television - January 1998.
- E-Mail Questions to: morrisonm@svusd.k12.ca.us
- Coastline Students CLICK HERE for questions.
- Michael Morrison - Technology Specialist - Saddleback Valley Unified School District
