Resources

Computer Science

• Computer Science Unplugged is a free collection of activities and ideas for learning about Computer Science without using a computer.

Email and Hoaxes

• Hoax-Busters
• Urban Legends Reference Pages
• Email scams, hoaxes, chain mail:
• Safe Computing Tips

Environmental Modeling

• National Atlas includes electronic maps and services that are delivered online.
• Global Climate Modeling-Learn to use EdGCM Global Climate Modeling program and apply it to your own simulation of climate change.
• New Mexico Natural Resources Conservation Service-Information about conservation data.
• Soil Surveys-The United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service is the federal agency that conducts and publishes soil surveys in the United States.

Equity Resources

• Network for Women in Science and Engineering Note Expanding Your Horizons and Careers" Exploring the Possibilities
• Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
• National Center for Women and Information Technology: Promising Practices
• Panelists Offer Strategies for Raising the Number of Women Scientists in Academe
• Equity Begins with Recognizing Diversity
• She Used to Be Pretty The wounds cyberbullies cause can run deep.
• Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance Web Page
• Computer Girl
• Equitable Classroom Practices Institute
• Cool Tech Jobs

Ethics

• Teacher's and Students Code of Ethics
• Ethics in the Age of Napster and MP3
• Editorial Cartoons and MP3

Glorieta Kickoff Conference-2002, Teacher materials

• The evening movie and activities
  • Nova: Ebola: The Plague Fighters
  • Viewing Questions
  • Infection Tree Simulation
• Willard Smith shares Exploring Minds, a Scientific Literacy project at http://exploringminds.tsuniv.edu/eom/

Glorieta Kickoff Conference-2001, Teacher materials

• Introduction to the Unix operating system
  • View the PDF File
  • Download the Word File
• Integrating CLS into Academics
  • View the Web Pages
  • Download the PowerPoint File, Exercise 1, and Exercise 2.
• Great Teams... The Way to Meet the AiS Supercomputing Challenge
  • View the Web Pages
  • Download the PowerPoint File

Hardware

• New Mexico Technet's Computer Reruns program.
• HP grants for computer hardware
• HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative

Math modeling

• Computational Science Education Reference Desk
• Computational Science in Education, teaching modules
• Formulating Continuous Time Models
• See STI 2004 links
• New Mexico Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Mentors

• Email consult saying you would like to become a Challenge Mentor
• The Role of a Challenge Mentor
• Questions to discuss with a team.
• A free mentoring project-Need to use broad search terms like math and science.
• Challenge Mentor Database-Looking for a mentor? Find one with this helpful database.
• Telementor Program
• Science Buddies Ask an Expert: Answers to Your Science Questions

Presentation

• Scoring Power Points how to avoid PowerPointlessness.
• Effective Presentations PPT from STI 2001

Programming

• Internet Available C++ Libraries Faq
• Fortran video course
• Challenge sponsored Java Advanced Placement Computer Science course
• Sun Academic Initiative Program acceptance. The Challenge has been accepted to participate in online courses, like Java, from Sun.
• Sun Academic Initiative Program orientation, Challenge participants can take online courses, like Java, from Sun.
• Java Advanced Placement Study Guide

Research

• Internet Research Hints
• More Research Hints
• Table for Challenge Research and Presentation Hints
• The Busy Teachers' WebSite
• Big Six Approach to Information Problem Solving http://www.big6.com/kids/7-12.htm
• Web Resources for Computer Science Education
• Computer Science Teachers Association

Science Resources

• Science.gov - The U.S. government's one-stop searchable portal to major science databases of federal science agencies
• WorldWideScience.org - Online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals
• Einstein's favorite web site-Interested in Physics, Astronomy and Science in general? Check this out.
• Highlights for High School from MIT features more than 2,600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes and assignments taken from actual MIT courses, and categorizes them to match the Advanced Placement physics, biology and calculus curricula. Demonstrations, simulations, animations and videos give educators engaging ways to present STEM concepts, while videos illustrate MIT's hands-on approach to the teaching of these subjects.
• The Macrogalleria-A cyberwonderland of polymer fun.
• The Molecular Workbench Project -The Molecular Workbench is a molecular simulation engine developed for the project. It is a professional tool for generating model-based activities, and for annotating and sharing them among students. See the Review of it.
• Daylight Chemical Information Systems
  • SMILES language
• Coloring Web Graphics
• Gallery of Data Visualization -Displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work.
• Web Resources for Computer Science Education
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• "ties", The Magazine of Design and Technology Education Free Subscription
  For example, Sept. 98 issue has articles on gender equity, a designer technologist, Family Tools and Technology program, packaging china, multimedia meditations.
• Current best practices in math and science at the Concord Consortium

Standards

• Correlated Standards for Computational Science
• New Mexico Content Standards and Benchmarks

Star Logo

• Star Logo and the West Nile Virus
• On-Line Guide for Newcomers to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences
• See STI 2004 links
• James Taylor's Star Logo materials from the 2002 Glorieta Kickoff. It has many useful links and sample models.
• StarLogo software

Summer Programs

• NASA Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP)
• Summer Science Program
• Summer Jobs at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Summer Jobs at Sandia National Laboratories

Supercomputing Resources

• The AiS Computational Science Textbook
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies--This is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science.
• Chem Viz NCSA -links to lesson plans with the power of the SGI/Cray Power Challenge supercomputing with the graphics and ease of use capabilities of the personal computer enabling students to use computational chemistry as a technique to better various abstract concepts, such as ionization energy, chemical bonding, periodic properties, and atomic and molecular orbitals.
• Envision It! Computational Science for Teaching & Learning
• ASPIRE - the Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computational Research in Education
• National Computational Science Alliance offers high-performance computing and communications resources, serving over 6000 users at more than 380 universities and corporations.
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides information about their projects, including educational efforts.
• Cornell Theory Center Home page offers a variety of information, including educational programs appropriate for elementary and secondary level science education.
• Scientific Visualization project at North Carolina State University.

Technical Assistance

• The Supercomputing Challenge Handbook
• Web Resources for Computer Science Education
• Challenge Technical Guide - Includes information and tutorials on the following topics: supercomputing, project design, telnet, Unix, Pico, C++, Java, Graphics, e-mail, ftp, HTML, Perl, and MPI

Writing Reports

• Oregon School Library Information System (Citing Sources)
• Citing Internet Resources
• Editing and Proofreading your reports.
• English Usage Site, which word to use??
• How to Efficiently Write a Technical Report
• Writing Papers and Abstracts and Presenting Research
• How to Organize your Computer Science Research Paper