FIBONACCI WEBQUEST-RELATED

University of St. Andrew Math Department

A webpage with links about Fibonacci and Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci for preliminary research.

The first page looks at the Fibonacci numbers and why they appear in various "family trees" and patterns of spirals of leaves and seeds. The second page then examines why the golden section is used by nature in some detail, including animations of growing plants.

Wikipedia.org: Fibonacci

Leonardo of Pisa (c. 1170 – 1250), also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Fibonacci, or simply Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician.

Wikipedia.org: Fibonacci

A brief history of child labor with information about child labor in the United States at the time of the Newsies' strike. Additional links about child labor and possible solutions are included.

Wikipedia: Fibonacci Numbers
Information and links to research the important inventions of the 19th Century.

Teacher Vision: Math and Music - Fibonacci Numbers
Students discover the patterns in music that relate to the Fibonacci Sequence.

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Golden Ratio and Architecture
The Golden Rectangle is a unique and a very important shape in mathematics. It also appears in nature, music, and is also often used in art and architecture.

Fibonacci Webquest by Teacher Elizabeth Ross Hubbell

Create a Graph
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) developed a website to help students create graphs and charts.

GENERAL EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

MARCO POLO NEW YORK

Internet content for the classroom, MarcoPolo is a program of the Verizon Foundation. The MarcoPolo Consortium includes both content partners and a state network to facilitate professional development and alignment of MarcoPolo lessons to state curriculum standards. MarcoPolo New York is an active participant in this network.

A SK JEEVES FOR KIDS

“Ask Jeeves for Kids is a fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to find answers to their questions online.” It is designed for children to use their “natural-language technology” and ask questions the same way that they might ask a friend or a parent. Ask Jeeves for Kids uses filtering technology and “human editorial judgment” to provide appropriate answers and links for children.

YAHOOLIGANS
Web search tool for children.

ALTA VISTA

AltaVista is a provider of search engines and technology that was inspired by the creation of big ideas from a team of experts with a fascination for keeping track of information. During the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every HTML page on the Internet in a fast, searchable index. This led to AltaVista's development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web.” Nowadays we take for granted the many searchable databases available to us. But at one time, what AltaVista did was unique.

TOLERANCE.ORG
"An online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity. Through its online well of resources and ideas, its expanding collection of print materials, its burgeoning outreach efforts, and its downloadable public service announcements, Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue of life."

PANDIA's 17 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NET SEARCHING
Tips to help internet users search the Internet efficiently and effectively.

GOOGLE EARTH

Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on

your desktop.

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA ONLINE

Encyclopćdia Britannica, Inc. is a leading provider of learning and knowledge products. One

t of the world's most trusted sources of information on every topic imaginable - from the

origins of the universe to current events and everything in between.

AFRICA FOR KIDS
An interactive website that corresponds to an educational adventure on Africa produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, this site contains information about the series, 8 episodes and characters. Also, lesson plans give students an overview of the art and music that represent the diverse regions of Africa.

GENERAL MUSIC EDUCATOR RESOURCES

SHARE YOUR MUSIC WITH ME
The “Share Your Music With Me” is a program where students around the world create and compose original pieces of music. Compositions can be vocal, instrumental or a combination. Music can be posted as sound files so we listen to the music or it can be posted as manuscript so other students can perform it. Original music that could be shared both in the written media as well as the performance media.”

CLASSICS FOR KIDS
Classics for Kids® is a site designed to help children learn about Classical Music. This site is a valuable resource to use in the classroom as an add-on, introduction, or extension to a lesson or unit.

GEOGRAPHY 2004-2005: CULTURES—THE SOUND OF PLACE
The premise of this project from National Geographic is ideal for Music curriculum as well as cross-curriculum. “This year's theme is "Cultures: The Sound of Place," an exploration of how language, music, and other aspects of the auditory environment give voice to the history, movement, and interaction of peoples around the world.” The goal of this project is to get students to look at their communities in different way – using their ears. Via this website, students can record sounds and upload them to the community page, and listen to the sounds from other places around the world.

SFS KIDS – FUN WITH MUSIC
This website, sponsored by The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), in conjunction with their live performances, provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music. “We love music and are committed to music education, within our community and beyond.

CREATINGMUSIC.COM

Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. Come discover fun and easy ways to make music!

THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC KIDZONE
An interactive website sponsored by the New York Philharmonic orchestra, the goal is for children to learn about the orchestra through activities such as: Game Room, Musician’s Lounge, Composers’ Gallery, Instrument Storage Room, Instrument Laboratory, Conductor/Soloist Dressing Rooms, Newsstand, and Composition Workshop.

JOURNEY NORTH
Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes -- and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events.

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
The Franklin Institute Online is a virtual science museum established to honor Benjamin Franklin and advance the usefulness of his inventions, offers a hands-on approach to science and technology. It provides a sampling of the physical museum as well as the online experience of visiting virtual exhibits.

MUSIC TEACHER'S NETWORK
Music Teachers Network is a global database of music instructors and educators from private practice to universities. The objective of the Network is to help the music student locate qualified instruction in his or her

GENERAL EDUCATOR RESOURCES

The Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC)
The NETC is made up of the state education agencies from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Oregon. NETC’s mission is to “provide professional development opportunities, access to technical assistance, and support for collegial interaction that allow and encourage educators throughout our region, and especially in K-12 schools, to become informed and fearless users of technology.”

RUBISTAR
Rubistar is a free teacher online tool to create, store and share rubrics.

Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom 1956)
This resources provides a list of outcome-illustrating verbs for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy, as well as other links regarding Bloom's Taxonomy.

C HARACTER EDUCATION
The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation's youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society. This site includes lesson plans for the Eleven Principles of Character education, seminar information, assessment resources, and publications.

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
NICHCY is a center that provides information to the nation on: disabilities in children and youth; programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities; IDEA, the nation's special education law; No Child Left Behind, the nation's general education law; and research-based information on effective practices for children with disabilities.

del.icio.us
Free social bookmarks manager in which users can add bookmarks to their list and categorize them.

NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM – EDUCATION STATION
This site celebrates 100th Anniversary of the New York Subway system, and includes a series of online and interactive activities that relate to the Museum's unique transit-related collection. Users can join the New York Transit Museum's Community Crossing to stay up to date on Museum educational activities. One can also contribute one’s own pieces of history to the Museum's virtual collections.

TEACHER VISION
General education resource for teachers for: Lesson Plans, Education about Classroom Management, Planning Center, newsletters, and Graphic Organizers.

NEW YORK STATE MST LEARNING STANDARDS
Learning standards for Math, Science and Technology.

QUESTGARDEN
Developed by Bernie Dodge, QuestGarden will allow you to create a solid WebQuest without any need to know web editing or uploading.

BACKFLIP
A free online WebTool that allows the user to organize "Your Favorites" as well allowing you to: Share my favorites easily with others; Make the websites saved in Backflip accessible to my students online for projects/lessons; Set up automatic visitation of all of the sites I visit daily via the “My Daily Routine” option; Add my OWN descriptions of sites saved to make searching personally easier; Add bookmarks I already had (I found this out once I registered) to the new program; Quickly find these pages using keywords; Access my Favorites from any folder; and Make folders for my favorites.

PDFONLINE
A Web Tool that provides users with quick and free document conversion into PDF and HTML formats. Conversion options include: PDF to Word - Drake; PDF to Graphics Freebird; PDF - easyPDF; HTML - Magellan; and Document Management System – fileShare. Also, the user is able to convert: • PDF (Portable Document Format) • RTF (Rich Text Format) • TXT (Simple Text Format) • DOC (Microsoft Word® Format) • XLS (Microsoft Excel® Format) documents.

AUTOASSIGN.COM
Site for teachers to quickly create online assignments for their students using only a web browser. Students later return to this site to "do" the assignments.

COPERNIC
Copernic is a metasearch tool that allows you to access over 80 different search engines at once.” It is also a Corporation that develops, markets and sells “cutting edge” information management ‘solutions’ to help home or business pc users to become more efficient.

myprojectpages.com's
A site where educators can create inquiry-based online learning documents to use in the class-room. Features include step-by-step Wizards, and tutorials, and you can post an endless amount of Project Pages, Miniquests, Curriculum Pages, and VisualQuests on their site.

FILMAMENTALITY
Filamentality is an easy-to-use, fill-in-the-blank tool that “guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities.” It allows you to create five different types of online learning activities: Hotlists, Scrapbook, Treasure Hunt, Subject Sampler, and WebQuests.

HOT POTATOES
Hot Potatoes was listed under the “Creating Online Assessment” section, and is free to educators who post their quizzes to the site. The Hot Potatoes site, with its six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises.

WEBCRAWLER
WebCrawler uses multiple search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves to help with searches.

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