HIT: BIOME/RAINFORESTS SITES ON INTERNET

["WALTERS, DONNA" <dwalters@IMAIL.VALPO.K12.IN.US>]

Dear Netters:  Here are the replies I received concerning my request for
repeating the Biome/rainforest sites on internet.  Hope this helps all those
interested.  I haven't explored the sites yet but I will and I appreciate
everyone who took the time to reply!!!  Thanks.  Donna Walters

Donna Walters
Media Specialist
Ben Franklin Middle School
605 Campbell St.
Valparaiso, IN  46383

PH: 219-531-3024  x 210
Fax: 219-531-3026

Here they are for you in no particular order:

I hope this reaches you.  It has not been delivered when I tried to send it
before.
Thought I'd pass along a great site!  Take a look at "What's It Like Where
You Live", a project on biomes for elementary and middle school students
developed by the Missouri Botanical Garden here in St. Louis.  It's just
been named one of twenty top websites in the educational division of the
National Information Infrastructure Awards
http://www.gii-awards.com/SFEducate.html

Last year, four of our elementary schools piloted pieces of the curriculum
and our students used both the Multimedia Encyclopedia and website
<http://www.mobot.org/MBGnet/ for project research.  You'll find links to
some of our Hyperstudio projects from the Garden site, too.

We'll be using all of the new materials this year.  We're hoping lots of
schools participate in the upcoming data collection projects and that we'll
have lots of schools communicating!

Harriette S. Arkin
Director Instructional Services/Technology
Ladue School Disrict
9703 Conway Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63124             "Gateway to the West"
FAX (314)994-1467
Phone (314) 994-7080


Is this the information you were looking for? I found this somewhere on a
printed note with intentions to pass it on to a science teacher. Hope it can
be of help.



>Thought I'd pass along a great site!  Take a look at "What's It Like Where
You Live", a project on biomes for elementary and middle school students
developed by the Missouri Botanical Garden here in St. Louis.  It's just
been named one of twenty top websites in the educational division of the
National Information Infrastructure Awards
http://www.gii-awards.com/SFEducate.html

>Last year, four of our elementary schools piloted pieces of the curriculum
and our students used both the Multimedia Encyclopedia and website
<http://www.mobot.org/MBGnet/ for project research.  You'll find links to
some of our Hyperstudio projects from the Garden site, too.
Mary Ann Emerick, Lib./Media Spec., Knoxville, IA

I looked through my print-outs of good LM_NET articles and found the
address:  www.gii-awards.com/SFEducate.html.

Mary Ferland, Kearsarge Regional Middle School, New London, NH 03257


Dear Friends,
  The Rainforest Action Network (http://www.ran.org) offers oppportunites
for activists, information about rainforests, and a Kids' Corner. It's well
worth visiting.

>I have received at least ten requests that I forward on the biome/rainforest
>websites when I receive them.  (I had posted a query to LM-NET that requesting
>that the person who originally post the biome/rainforest websites send them to
>me as I had hit delete rather than print.)  Obviously, a lot of us missed them
>so if whoever posted them, can just re-post them to the group, it would be
>wonderful!  Thanks.  Donna Walters-----just had a thought; I've never tried to
>access the archives.  The original posting should be in the archives, yes?
>
>

Ellen Berne
Library Director, The Winsor School  Pilgrim Road  Boston MA 02215
(617)735-9510
Co-Manager, ISED-L
Instructor, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
eberne@tiac.net


  The Rainforest Action Network (http://www.ran.org) offers oppportunites
for activists, information about rainforests, and a Kids' Corner. It's well
worth visiting.