Keystone Weekly
volume 4, issue 8        November 11, 2002

This week's Key Points: *Web Pick of the Week* and *Awesome Science!*
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The American Museum of Natural History offers up this wonderful site for young learners called "OLogy." As you know, the root "ology" means the "the study of," and this site provides lots of different "ologies" to explore (even if they don't always end in "ology"): paleontology, astronomy, biodiversity, genetics, and a special section on Einstein.

The graphics on this site are colorful and impressive, and the whole site is easy to use. Each section has great activities and information, and there's a wonderful assortment of student scientists ("ologists") whose activities students can follow, as well as adult experts who've answered kids' questions online.

OLogy would be suitable for student to explore on their own (during free time or in conjunction with a project), and would also lend itself well to a guided exploration with you and your students working together. This site could also be a useful source for you if you're looking for ideas or information.

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Beginning now, Mars will be moving closer to earth and will become more visible than anyone in recent history has ever seen; in fact, this will be the closest that Mars has come to our planet in about 73,000 years.

At the moment, Mars is in full view in the morning sky, although it is still small and close to the horizon. But it will appear progressively larger and brighter over the next weeks and months, and by late August 2003, Mars will be approximately 191 million miles closer, and will appear more than six times larger and shine 85 times brighter than now.

For more details, see the link above.

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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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