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Getting Your Summer Job powerpoint
This pdf of the powerpoint on Getting Your Summer Job include hotlinks to webpages that provide search engines for finding jobs and lots of tips about getting your summer job. Acrobat will warn you and ask you whether to allow it to open. It is safe to say yes. If you have trouble opening it, email Nancy at frankn@uwm.edu, and she will send you the pdf by email.
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Download Annual Expectations (for all students and by grade level)
Forms
SUPAR Cellphone Policy and Permission Form
Advisory Binder contents outline
My Plan for Quarter (MS Word doc)
Presentation Comment Sheet (for audience members)
Permission Slip (for out of building activities)
Resources
Culminating Products--lots of ways to show what you have learned
Write a proposal to fund your a service learning project: Youth In Service program
400+ More ways to show what you learned (external link)
College Board's 101 Great Books
Novel Guide: a resource for understanding how to analyze classic literature
How to cite sources (KnightCite tool)
Information Literacy: a guide from the University of Idaho
The following links are good resources for researching projects.
The Human Being
Sleep Education
http://www.sleepeducation.com/
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/c.huIXKjM0IxF/b.2417141/k.C60C/Welcome.htm
http://www.sleepny.com/?_kk=sleep&_kt=49146890-525f-43a4-a303-903a7f093d41/
http://www.sleepcenters.org/
http://www.sleepresearchsociety.org/Foundation/
http://www.discoversleep.org/
The Brain/Neuroscience
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
Genetically Modified Food
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html
Teen Health Issues
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/
Center for Infectious Disease
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/
HIV Information
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/index.htm
Schizophrenia
http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/
National Institute of Health and Human Services
http://www.nih.gov/
Alcohol and Drug Information
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
Dental Genetics
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/dentgen/index.html
Human Anatomy
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
http://www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/ta/classes/lab7/lab7.html
http://www.imcpl.org/kids/guides/health/index.html
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/index.html
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The Physical World
Architecture
http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architecture_tales.html
City Planning
American Planning Association, Youth pages,
http://www.planning.org/education/youth/
Milwaukee Area Planning Issues: Resources and Organizations to
Contact
http://www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org/File/grant_seekers/YISF/YISF.shtml
Physics
http://www.fearofphysics.com/Intro/links.html
http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/freefall2.html
Pets
http://www.wihumane.org/
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kids_home
Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites
http://apps.exploratorium.edu/10cool/index.php
American Museum of Natural History, http://www.amnh.org/
How Stuff Works
http://express.howstuffworks.com/
Social Sciences
American Museum of Natural History, http://www.amnh.org/
Astronomy/Solar System
http://www.synapses.co.uk/astro/index.html
http://www.earthsky.org/
http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/treehouse.html
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
http://www.cosmicimages.com/Mir/index.html
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/kaft.htm
http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/
Virtual Cave
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/
Explore A Pond
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/pond/
Weather
http://www.stormfax.com/
http://www.wunderground.com/
http://www.earthwatch.com/
Wind and Sea
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/researchtools/subjectguides/wind/windandsea.html
Endangered Species
http://www.endangeredspecie.com/
Gorilla Foundation
http://www.koko.org/index.php
Many science links!
http://www.cyberspacemuseum.com/
http://www.scirus.com/
Experimental
Method and Experiment of the Week
http://www.supar.org/docs/Experimental_Method.pdf
http://www.krampf.com/news.html
http://www.madsci.org/
Water
http://www.vims.edu/bridge/
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/home/home.html
http://voyage.pierwisconsin.org/index.php
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/index.html
Gardening
http://www.kidsgardening.com/
http://www.raingardennetwork.com/about.htm
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/wm/dsfm/shore/documents/rgmanual.pdf
http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/raingarden_design/whatisaraingarden.htm
http://clean-water.uwex.edu/pubs/pdf/home.gardens.pdf
Sample
rain garden design drawing from Layton Boulevard West
Neighbors
Math
http://www.math.com/
http://www.mathleague.com/
http://users.erols.com/bram/
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
http://www.algebrahelp.com/
http://www.mathgoodies.com/
http://mathforum.org/teachers/
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml
http://www.figurethis.org/
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html
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Publications
New York Times volcanoes
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/volcanoes/index.html
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/index2.html
Exploratorium Faultline Seismic Science at the Epicenter
http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html
New York Times earthquakes
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/earthquakes/index.html
Must see website for science
http://www.cramscience.ca/
Jason Project
http://www.jason.org/public/home.aspx
http://www.sciencenews.org/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
Scientific American articles
http://www.sciam.com/
http://www.science.gov/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
http://www.thinkquest.org/index.html
National Science Teachers Association (has links for students)
http://www.nsta.org/
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/mar/cover
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/
Librarians Internet Index
http://www.lii.org/
http://www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org/gmf/grant_seekers/YISF/aboutYISF.shtml
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Resources in the Milwaukee School System
UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning website
UW-Milwakuee website
Milwaukee Public Schools websites
Apply for college tuition aid: FAFSA
