Exploratorium Web Science Workshop

By clicking the links below, you will find a variety of on-line "Web Lessons." "Web Lessons" are activities intended to help science teachers integrate the Web into their science curriculum. Since a "Web Lessons" may use dynamic content or require communication via the Internet, "Web Lessons" are best done during an active Internet session.

Title
Description
Author

Bridge Out!

Use a chatroom to solve an engineering problem.

Eric Muller

The Chemistry of Asprin

Search the Web for a headache cure.

Robert McClard

Color Mixing Lab and Activities

Links to hands-on activities about color mixing.

Marti Andreski and Carol Wawrukiewicz

Fog in San Francisco!

Can you make a lesson about fog?

Eric Muller

Polymer and Hydrogen Bonds

Forming and isolating large molecules.

David Lauter

Locating Earthquake Epicenters!

Map the plate boundaries of our planet by using the web.

Eric Muller

Mountains from Space

Satellite image game.

Ronna Voorsanger

Science Fair Projects

W eb links for s cience projects

Peg Dabel

Where Am I?

Introduction to map skills and links.

Clem Wings

New- Puzzled Partners

A communication and skill building activity

Eric Muller

New - What's your Position?

Locating your location by using latitude and longitude.

Eric Muller

New - What's the Size of What You See?

A size and estimation activity.

Lori Lambertson

New- Moon Phases and Earthquakes

Does the phase of the moon effect earthquake activity?

Tim Evans

New- Catch a Wave

Find the P wave of a recent earthquake on a seismogram.

John Lahr

New- Where are You ?

Find your latitude and longitude.

John Lahr

New- Map Your Earthquakes

Make a map of the earthquake in your region.

John Lahr

New- Plates in Motion

How fast is the plate under your feed moving?

John Lahr

New- Volcanoes Now

How many volcanoes erupted today?

Coral Clark

New - Too Close

Asteroid Monitoring

Tom Clark

New- Weather Maps

Take a look at real-time weather maps.

David Barrios

New- Discover a Habitat

Research plants and animals in your neighborhood.

Karen Mendelow Nelson

New- Seasons and Migration

Understanding the seasons.

Sue Marvit

New- Weather Around the World

Weather in any area of the world.

S. Sue Khuon

New- Hurricane

Track and map a hurricane.

Candy Sykes

New- Current Events

Starting place for student to find environmentally related current events.

Monya Baker

New- Fill it up!

How long would it take to fill your school with water.

Eric Muller

New- Area Above

Figure out the width and length of a structure using aerial photography.

Eric Muller

New- Come rain, come shine

Find out the accuracy of web-cams and weather forecasts around the world.

Chris Miller

New- Value of a dollar

How does the value of money change over time.

John Burke

New- Temperature
or ?Weather

Forecasting temperature around the world.

Jose Hernandez

New- Beetle Pace

Find out how long it would take the beetle to reach the top.

Arva Robinson and Feliciadad Pierce

New- Volume

Find the volume of retangular prisms.

Lillian Somarriba

New- Water Quality

Find out about pollution and quality of water.

Mona Muniz

New- Budgeting Income

Find out the principles of budgeting.

Adele Medel

New- Jake's Lesson

Find out more about bi-lateral symmetry.

Poe Asher

New- Pythagorean Theorom

See a real life application of the Pythagorean Theorem.

Poe Asher

New- Tesselation

How to make tesselation manually and with your computer.

Irene Bautista and David Crenshaw

New- Fraction Attraction

Fractions explained through geometric figures.

James Anderson

The Web Science Workshop lessons were created in cooperation with the Exploratorium Teacher Institute .

This site developed and maintained by Deborah Hunt and Eric Muller .
Last update: June 2000

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