Keystone Weekly
volume 3, issue 22        March 11, 2002

This week's Key Points: *Web Pick of the Week,* *PA Science Standards Conference,* and *National Pi Day*
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Web Pick of the Week
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
The Learning Network from the New York Times on the Web

The Learning Network is an incredibly rich web resource for students, teachers, and parents, designed to align to third through twelfth grades. Take a moment to visit this site (which is updated Monday through Friday) and get acquainted with all that it has to offer.

In the words of the website:
"Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. Students can also submit a letter to the editor, ask a reporter a question, or submit a science question and search through the Science Q&A archive. They can also expand their vocabularies and practice their verbal test-taking skills, and even take a Web Exploration on a variety of topics.

Teachers can access a daily lesson plan for grades 6-12, written in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education in New York City. Each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. Teachers can also use News Snapshot, aimed for grades 3-5, to explore current events through New York Times photos and related questions. The site additionally provides teachers with the latest education news from the newspaper."

Even if you find that you don't use the Learning Network often, I bet you'll be glad to know that it's there.

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Explore Pennsylvania Science Standards and Supports
http://www.rbs.org/news/20020227a.shtml

"Science Standards and Supports" is a one-day conference of updates on K-12 science standards and assessments, to be presented on May 3, 2002 by the Pennsylvania State Team of the Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium. Held at Messiah College in Gratham, PA, the conference also presents a forum for the sharing of local efforts that address related content, pedagogy, and assessment strategies and includes a free tour of the college's Museum of Natural History.

The $25 registration fee includes food and materials. Register by April 24 through the Research for Better Schools website (at the address listed above). Accommodations must be reserved by April 12.

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National Pi Day on March 14 (3.14)

Don't miss National Pi Day! Celebrate and learn about everyone's favorite irrational number by visiting some of these sites.

Pi Math
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEorange/buttons.html
A History of Pi
http://www-groups.dcs.st- and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
A Common Book of Pi
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~carother/pi/Pi1.html
Archimedes' Method for Pi
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~carother/pi/Pi3a.html
Buffon's Needles Lab
http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Mathematics/Buffon.htm
Slashdot Pi Day
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/14/1622217.shtml
Pi Day E-Cards
http://www.123greetings.com/events/pi_day/
Send a Happy Pi Day Card (free)
http://free.bluemountain.com/engx/daleb/UNH_pi.html

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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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