Hello From Online Educator, Here are the five Education Super Sites for the week of March 1, 1997 from The Online Educator, creators of "Point, Click and Teach.". 1. MATH - Math can be pretty when it is used in the RAINBOW LAB. How are rainbows formed? Your students can learn the inside scoop at the University of Minnesota's Calculus Initiative. They will learn about reflection, refraction and how light travels. They will be able to calculate the path of a beam of light through a water droplet and predict the best viewing angle for observing the resulting rainbow. Tuck this lesson into your math curriculum and then send your students out on a rainbow hunt. 2. GEOGRAPHY - Learn more about the effects man-made and natural disasters have had on the environment with the help of Earthshots. The best way to measure how a child grows and changes over the years is to take a series of photographs over time and compare them. The same is true about the world in which we live. Earthshots is a collection of satellite images which show how our environment has changed over the last 20 years. Check the pictures that the United States Geological Survey has put online and you'll be able to chart the effects of droughts, fires, deforestation, urbanization, irrigation, desertification, and other natural and man-made events has had on the earth. 3. ENVIRONMENT - Take your students on a virtual field trip to one of the most inetresting (and educational) places on Earth--THE VIRTUAL GALAPAGOS EDUCATION WORKBOOK. There are few places on Earth more interesting than the Galapagos Islands. A living evolutionary laboratory, the islands have long been a destination for scientists and explorers. Now your class can join them on the Internet. Study wildlife, history and ecology, all from the [51 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=4285208&hilit=ART+SATELLITE> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&4281287 Score: 78 Subject: Re: Three Indispensable Books