~~~  High School Websites  ~~~

NB: Sites have been chosen for their link to project base learning.

Mathematics

• NCES Maths Games: A dice game using Probability and Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Probability/ 
  Create your own graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/ 
  Which famous mathematician most interests you? http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/MathQuiz/ 

• NRICH Online Maths Club: http://nrich.maths.org/ 

• Dr Maths: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/

• World of Maths http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cone.html 

• SMILE Maths program - concepts: http://www.iit.edu/~smile/mathinde.html 

• Latin Focus:Latin Focus give access to economic figures from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela. http://www.latin-focus.com/  How can we be part of a global economy without knowing more about the economics of other countries? 
  
• 2020Green http://www.2020green.com/index.jsp  Aetna Financial Services and Second Story Interactive produced 2020Green to help students in middle and high school acquire a sense of finance as it affects their lives.

Science

• The Just Science Websites: a large range of interactive websites
  http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1135/sciweb.htm 

• ENO: Environment Online
  http://pp.eno.fi/eno2000/ 

• Virtual Laser Lab http://vll.phys.dal.ca/
  
• How Stuff Works: www.howstuffworks.com 
  
• CIESE Online Classroom Resources http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/ 
  To particpate in science projects that can only be done using Internet resources, take a look at "The Gulf Stream: A Global Investigation" or a past Blue Web'n pick, "The Morgan Tutorial," which investigates the field of genetics.

 English

• Crunch - An online 'zine for students to share their ideas and opinions.
  http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch/ 

• Great English Sites http://eleaston.com/ 
  

 SOSE

• Gympie SHS  http://www.gympieshs.qld.edu.au/curriculum/sose_8-10/index.html
  Includes year 8 unit on Egypt

•  Year 8 Human Rights Report by Kenmore SHS
  http://www.kenmoreshs.qld.edu.au/resourcecentre/workunit1.html 

• GlobalWeb 9 ****Are your students researching world cultures from 4000 BC to 1700 AD?
  http://www.bestschools.org/hs/sstudies/global9/home.html 
  

• Ancient Egypt -- The British Museum http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html 
  

• Social Critic ***** http://www.socialcritic.org/ 
  This site is described as selected readings in social criticism.

 Geography

LOTE

• Ultralabs Schools Online Project http://sol.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/pages/schools_online/languages/mflhome.html 

• Roger Ganderton's Languages and Language Learning
  http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/~rogerg/langll.html 

• Languages Made Clear 
  http://home.wanadoo.nl/mvgompel/ 
   
• Translations: http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn  

  http://www.freetranslation.com/  has Norwegian

General Sites

• AOL@school: http://www.school.aol.com/highschool/index.adp

 School Sites

• Gympie SHS: http://www.gympieshs.qld.edu.au/

• Kenmore SHS: http://www.kenmoreshs.qld.edu.au/ 

• Marsden SHS: http://www.marsdenshs.qld.edu.au/marsden.html 
  Award winning site

• Nambour SHS: http://www.nambourshs.qld.edu.au/ 
  Good genre guides and online tutorials.

• Windaroo Valley SHS: http://www.windvallshs.qld.edu.au/
  Great student pages

Internet Activities: Knowledge Acquisition to Higher Order Thinking

Make your own Internet projects  

• Filamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/  

• Web and Flow: www.web-and-flow.com  

• Creating Web Based Lessons: templates
  www.esc20.net/techserv/projects    

  See an example of each type of Activity:

• Six Paths to China
  www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/index.html  

• Thinking Through Linking: Examples of Activities
  www.ozline.com/learning/thinking.html

• Australian Activities
  http://www.occ.act.edu.au/home/itpd/webquests/matrix.htm 
  
  
  Hotlists

• China on the Net www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html  

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Knowledge Hunts

Subject Samplers

• My China
  www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html

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Concept Builders

• Searching for China – Religious Leader
  www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/religion.html  
  

• No Fear o’ Eras
  www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/eras/byzantine.html
  

• Fantasy Vs Science Fiction
  www.web-and-flow.com/members/mchapple//builder.htm

• A 5 day PD event on WebQuests 
  http://www.thacher.org/webquests/index.htm 
  
  
  

WebQuests: Open ended inquiries

• Matrix of secondary WebQuests
  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/9-12matrix.html