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Keystone Weekly
volume 4, issue 17 February 3, 2003

This week's Key Points: *Web Pick of the Week,* *New Classroom Experience* and *Space Shuttle Columbia Information*
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Web Pick of the Week
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

This site, created by a Mathematics and Physics Librarian at Princeton University, offers a tremendous list of African American scientists and their accomplishments. With a look into the past, present, and future; as well as special subsections featuring female scientists and the first science Ph.D.s awarded to African Americans, this is a rich site worth exploring. Use it throughout the year and now to enrich your studies during Black History Month.

The site explains: "African American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians have contributed in both large and small ways that can be overlooked when chronicling the history of science. By describing the scientific history of selected African American men and women we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human understanding in the world around us."

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Classroom Experiences
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/visits/marjorietrapp.shtml

Last week, the Keystone Science Network was honored to visit Marjorie Trapp's second grade classroom at Finletter Elementary School in Philadelphia as she and her enthusiastic students worked with an activity related to STC's Sound kit.

Click on the link above to get a look at the class in action, or visit by looking for Marjorie's name in the Classroom Experiences section at http://www.keystone.fi.edu/experiences.shtml.

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Space Shuttle Columbia Information
http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/

At present, this NASA site is predominantly a public relations outlet, but is likely to be a good source of additional information as the investigation into the disaster continues, and will be a good site to check in on if you and your students have questions.

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The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.

The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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