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For those of you interested in astronomy here is the NASA for students 
website
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/index.html

National Geographic Web Site
http://www.nationalgeographic.com

Here is a great source of maps. Massachusetts Geographic Information
http://www.mass.gov/mgis/

A great site for biology
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

Learning starts from wondering, the purpose of this site is to serve 
as a resource for things, simple but curious, related to Mathematics.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/index.shtml

Middle Grade Mathematics  - Interactive computer based activities covering 
the topics we will be working on this year.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/texts/mgm/seven.html

Mrs. Carroll - School Notes
http://www.schoolnotes.com/01504/dcarroll.html

Mr.Chaharyn - School Notes
http://www.schoolnotes.com/01504/achaharyn.html

Mr. Kiely - School Notes
http://www.schoolnotes.com/01504/kkiely.html

Ms. Coffey - School Notes
http://www.schoolnotes.com/01504/coffey.html

Ask Dr. Math - a way to ask questions from math professors and teachers the 
world around.  Lots of good examples and tips.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Download for ImageJ an free image processing program used to analyze tiff 
and jpg files
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html

Download for ArcVoyager Special Edition, a free GIS (Geographical 
Information System, think google earth) that allows you to take gis data and 
analyze it using maps.
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/education/voyager.html

Earth Observatory - images of planet Earth
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

MIT SPLASH - Over one weekend in November, over one thousand high school and 
middle school students converge on the MIT campus, where MIT students and 
community members teach them short classes on just about anything you can 
think of!
http://esp.mit.edu/web/takeaclass/splash.html

Pre-Algebra wiki - for discussions of classroom topics and assignments.  
This is a private wiki, which means you need to register and get a login 
before you can use it.  I will only approve that teachers, students and 
their parents and guardians have access to this wiki
https://kalmbachprealgebra.wikispaces.com/

Geometer's SketchPad - a wonderful software tool that allows you to 
do &quot;real&quot; and interesting geometry on your computer.
http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/index.php

Study Island - Study Island is a leading provider of web-based state 
assessment preparation programs and standards based learning programs. 

Login to study island to learn and complete assignments.
http://www.studyisland.com

Practice doing 2 step equations with this applet.  (This is what we used in 
class on 3/14)
http://www.harcourtschool.com/elab/act_7_8.html

Link to the car race simulation used in class for the simulation paper due 
on 5/5.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/RacingGameWithOneDie/

Old Shodor link - if you have an old java version you may need to go here to 
find a version of the race car simulation that works with your version on 
java.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate1.0/

Link to CERN and information on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Due to 
switch on in 2008, it will ultimately collide beams of protons at an energy 
of 14 TeV . Beams of lead nuclei will be also accelerated, smashing together 
with a collision energy of 1150 TeV
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

Link to applet exploring changing data effect on mean and median
http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap6/6.6/standalone1.htm

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