Resources For Current SUPAR Students


New! 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.

Download the SUPAR Handbook

Math Wiki

Download Annual Expectations (for all students and by grade level)

SUPAR Rubrics

SUPAR Calendar

Forms

SUPAR Compact

SUPAR Cellphone Policy and Permission Form

Credit Signoff Form

Advisory Binder contents outline

My Plan for Quarter (MS Word doc)

Presentation Tips

Presentation Comment Sheet (for audience members)

Permission Slip (for out of building activities)

Resources

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom Wheel

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

More college resources

Book  Response Options

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

Presentation Skills and Tips

MPS Virtual Library

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


Project Foundry

 

 

UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning website

UW-Milwakuee website

Milwaukee Public Schools websites

Apply for college tuition aid: FAFSA