http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 07:20:58 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 07:20:58 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90751 eTEACH is a vehicle for publishing coordinated multi-media instructional materials on the World Wide Web. Logically, an eTEACH presentation consists of digital streaming video, a coordinated ?slide show?, a table of contents, and possibly optional materials and links to external web sites. The actual materials stored on the web server are an HTML frameset, associated web pages, the digital video, and associated JavaScript code, which controls and coordinates the presentation. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88584 Highly interactive mathematics activities for students and educators. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90906 This teaching packet consists of a narrative script used to accompany a slide set.Instructions for creating the slides for use with this presentation are provided. Theobjective of the teaching packet is to inform students (high school) how 3 drugs of abuse (cocaine,opiates, marijuana) actually work in the brain. The packet is arranged in 3 sections. The first sectionintroduces the brain and presents some basic neurobiology, the second introduces the rewardpathway and the third presents the mechanism of action of each drug and how each affects thereward system. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=91248 TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the lesson and stay on track. It can be used to create your own easy-to-use Web lessons and presentations or you can find and use ready-to-go lessons created by other educators. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90707 This site explicitly lists evaluation criteria for a variety of teaching materials. Guidelines cover evaluation of audiovisual, CDRom, computer courseware, online courses, videodisks, and web sites. EvaluTech is a searchable database of instructional materials specifically designed for use in kindergarten through grade 12. This database includes instructional software, educational websites, print and other materials. Only materials that are recommended are included in EvaluTech. Every item evaluated by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's Educational Resources Evaluation and North Carolina Educators adhere to specific evaluation criteria.This is an outstanding resource to use with inservice and pre-service teachers in a methods course lesson on evaluation of instructional resources. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=327055 This lesson encourages students to work in a group to use Web 2.0 applications such as Google Earth, TripAdvisor.com, Expedia.com, Pageflakes.com, and Photobucket.com to plan a trip to anywhere in the world, highlighting 10 or more places of historical interest. This project not only promotes collaboration and student choice, but also teaches them to use Web 2.0 applications in real life situations, such as trip planning, reading reviews, maintaining a budget, and uploading photos to create slide shows. This project is designed to familiarize students with places of historical interest around the world as well as allow them practice in using current Web 2.0 applications. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89924 e-Tutor has developeda free templatefor writing instructional lessons. Those whowrite lessons fore-Tutor will receive a $25 stipend and access to their lesson for themselvesand students.LessonPro has been developed as a vehicle to increase participation byteachers and theirstudents in the teaching-learning process over the Internet. E-Tutor hasmade it easier forstudents to access lessons written by their teachers at LessonPro. Theteacher's last nameand school zip code or lesson ID and password are all that is needed toaccess lessons.Those who have fully completed a lesson that is accepted for use by e-Tutor will receive $25 in cash and entry into the e-TutorCircle ofWriters. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89071 The Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery contains hundreds of examples of full color photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope). Virtual Scanning Electron Microscopy (approximately a 30 second download on 28.8K modems) (vSEM) is a result of team effort with award-winning electron microscopist Dennis Kunkel to produce this interactive vSEM . Visitors can adjust the focus, contrast, and magnification of microscopic creatures viewed at thousands of times their actual size. Perhaps the best part of this web is the Microscope Primer, starting with start with the nature of electromagnetic radiation and covering various aspects of light including refraction, reflection, diffraction, interference, birefringence, polarization, needed to understand the Anatomy of the Microscope, Specialized Microscopy Techniques, Stereomicroscopy, and Photomicrography - both digital and film! http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=595908 Refraction is an online puzzle game for teaching fractions. The game is not a lesson in fractions, but requires knowledge of fractions to succeed. The player must partition lasers in order to power spaceships containing various animals who have gotten stuck in space, as shown in the picture. These animal spaceships all require different fractions of the lasers, and the player is given several pieces that split and bend the lasers to reach the animals and satisfy these requirements. These mechanics can be used to teach many important fraction concepts, such as equal partitioning, addition, multiplication, mixed numbers, improper fractions, and common denominators. The game itself is instrumented so that it records everything the player does, allowing teachers and researchers to analyze play data. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=328732 This website offers virtual science field trips you can take online with your students