Inspire Math Students with The Proof (Monday)

Visit "The Proof" Web site to spark your students' interest in mathematics. On this PBS/Nova Web site, students will learn about mathematician Andrew Wiles' seven-year effort to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem. Wiles' quest puts a human face on math's greatest enigma, as does a section called Math's Hidden Woman. Here you can read about the 18th-century mathematician Sophie Germain, a woman similarly obsessed with the theorem. For geometry students, the site offers a simple explanation of how the Pythagorean theorem works and provides several interactive activities to challenge students to work with the theorem. URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/

Bugscope Gives Online Access to Electron Microscopes (Tuesday)

Visit the Bugscope Web site to see how your class can remotely operate a scanning electron microscope. Students can image insects at high magnification in real time from classroom computers. This highly unique project is made possible by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois. The Bugscope project has been designed for K-12 students and is available free of charge. URL: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/

History Matters (Wednesday)

Use the History Matters Web site to teach the rich history of the United States. Designed for high school and college teachers, the site divides its resources between teaching techniques and history resources. The resources are varied and include source documents of images, texts, and audio files. There are also many ideas for curriculum design, teaching strategies, and technology integration. URL: http://historymatters.gmu.edu//

Bartleby for the Bookish (Thursday)

Visit the Bartleby site next time you need to find a word, check a writing style issue, or find just the right quote. The Web site provides a wealth of resources to both the language arts teacher and student. With free access to Roget’s Thesaurus, Strunk’s Elements of Style, three separate sources of quotations, dictionaries and more, you are sure to find something you can use. Visit http://www.bartleby.com/

Education Week Offers News You Can Use (Friday)

Visit the Education Week Web site for informative and high-quality investigative reporting on a myriad of K-12 education-related issues. The award-winning site offers local, state, and national news, weekly articles, periodic special reports on a variety of topics, career news, and a job board, among other things. Its core audience is administrators and teachers. The site also contains a link to it’s sister publication, the outstanding Teacher Magazine, which features articles, book reviews, commentaries, and other offerings specifically written for classroom teachers. URL: http://www.edweek.com