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Updates 17 Sept 2004
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KNE Project Manager
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Sep 21, 2004 09:02 PDT
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HOT NEWS!
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Oct 30 is Cyber Safety Day!
Through its Internet Safety Web site at
http://www.sbc.com/gen/general?pid=1390, the SBC family of companies aim
to empower you with information about some of the most common issues
surrounding safety, privacy and security on the Internet including
identity theft, spam and sniffing; Internet cookies; and fraudulent
emails. Check out the glossary (http://www.sbc.com/gen/general?pid=1400)
for some terms you may not have heard of before. There is even an
interactive Internet Safety Game for Kids!
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HOT SITE OF THE WEEK
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Meet the Candidates
http://herrickses.org/searingtown/election/
Your students will learn about candidates and elections as they
participate in this timely project by working in teams to research
platforms and policies, develop marketing plans, or plan for public
awareness campaigns. All links are included and teacher planning
materials are available for convenience. Grades 5 and up.
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School
Content Area: Community Interest (Government/Politics), Education
(Curriculum), History & Social Studies (Government) [Dewey #320]
Application type: Projects
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NEW SITES THIS WEEK
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Lewis Carroll Scrapbook (Library of Congress)
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/lchome.html
The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress is an original
scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as
Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children’s author of Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Dodgson was a
lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. The scrapbook
contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings,
photographs, and a limited number of manuscript materials, collected
between 1855-72. A timeline, authored by Edward Wakeling, former
chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society, helps to place materials found in
the scrapbook in their proper context. Search by Keyword, Author,
Title, Subject; or simply browse page by page through the Scrapbook.
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College,
Adult/Professional
Content Area: Arts (Literature), English (Literature) [Dewey #800]
Application type: Information Resources
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ScienceInTheBox
http://www.scienceinthebox.com
Scienceinthebox.com covers a range of interesting and entertaining
topics! The site was created to share the science behind Proctor &
Gamble's laundry and cleaning products with a focus on addressing
sustainable practices and products which embrace social responsibility
as well as environmental practices. Product development and other
considerations are presented. Users can select topics can be saved into
a File Basket, downloaded, and printed. The interactive pages are
particularly fun - especially the history of washing -
/www.scienceinthebox.com/en_UK/publications/interactivecontents_en.html.
The glossary in the side menu provides definitions for numerous
chemicals and terms. Product safety sheets can get pretty technical; so
there's something for everyone here on a subject that we might not give
much thought.
Grade Level: Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School, High
School, College, Adult/Professional
Content Area: Community Interest (Health), Health & Physical Education
(Health), Health & Physical Education (Safety), History & Social Studies
(Anthropology / Archaeology), Science (Chemistry), Science
(Environmental Studies), Technology (Applied Science) (Manufacturing)
[Dewey #570]
Application type: Information Resources, Activities
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Transportation Futuristics (Harmer E. DavisTransportation Library)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/index.html
What is “transportation futuristics”? Many of us are familiar with
covers from Popular Science that depict commuters buzzing around in tiny
aircraft and landing on rooftops, or fanciful drawings of vehicles that
run on roads, float on water and also take to the air. The basic problem
many of us face each day-- how to get from Point A to Point B in the
least amount of time with the least amount of trouble-- has inspired
many to dream of marvelous ways to solve that problem. In spite of
failing at what they set out to achieve, many futuristics, especially
those from transportation practitioners, have influenced the design of
equipment, facilities or operations. This exhibit examines why these
intriguing ideas failed and what lessons we can learn from those
failures. There's not a whole lot of information; but there's quite a
bit of inspiration.
Grade Level: Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School, High
School, College, Adult/Professional
Content Area: Community Interest (Leisure), Technology (Applied
Science) (Engineering) [Dewey #620]
Application type: Information Resources
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Vote: The Machinery of Democracy (Smithsonian Institute)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/index.html
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy looks at the history of voting methods
in the United States, which are as varied as the individual states and
their local election districts. This site explores how ballots and
voting systems have evolved over the years as a response to political,
social, and technological change, transforming the ways in which
Americans vote. Sections include: Introduction, America's Voting
Patchwork, Paper Ballots, The Acme of Reform, The Gear & Lever Voting
Machine, Punch Card Democracy, Florida 2000, Design for Democracy, The
Present and Future Ballot.
Grade Level: Middle School, High School, College
Content Area: Community Interest (Government/Politics), History &
Social Studies (Government) [Dewey #320]
Application type: Information Resources
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AOL USERS
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<A HREF=http://herrickses.org/searingtown/election/>Meet the
Candidates</A>
<A
HREF=http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/lchome.html>Lewis
Carroll Scrapbook</A>
<A HREF=http://www.scienceinthebox.com>ScienceInTheBox</A>
<A
.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/index.html>Transportation
Futuristics</A>
<A HREF=http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/index.html>Vote: The
Machinery of Democracy</A>
<A HREF=http://www.sbc.com/gen/general?pid=1390>SBC Internet Safety</A>
Linda L. Woods, MLS. MA.,
Project Manager,
SBC Knowledge Network Explorer
http://www.kn.sbc.com/
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