Using Catalogs Hands-On

Objectives

Use catalogs to learn about information on the internet that is relevant to material you teach in your classes or to telecommunications projects you may be interested in doing with your classes.
Identify two or three of these topics on which you see useful information. One or more of these will be used in coming workshops as your topic for internet searches that take advantage of the many internet information searching tools. In a following session, you will use the results of your searches (and your own information) in writing your own WWW document.

Details

Pick a topic to collect internet information on that you think would benefit your students or the other participants in this workshop. Topics can be relevant to specific subject areas (like Fractals), or administrative information (like funding for Math and Science Education Projects), or survey oriented (like Use of Networks for Secondary Science Education or Sites with current event information).

Make sure your topic is not too broad: like Biology or Math. It should be a topic such that you or a student would benefit from having a page of relevant links and information about that topic at your fingertips. It can be a unit you cover in school.

If you are having trouble thinking of a topic or deciding between topics, let us know and we can make suggestions of research we could use or why one topic might be preferable to another.

Here are examples of topics that have been used before:

Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
Fractals
Scientific Visualization
Space Law

Laura Mengel (lauram@fnal.gov)

December 19, 1994