This site was assembled by a New Zealand chemist who knows his stuff. Ink stains, grass, or gum is a breeze with this advice. Barry Willis at the University of Idaho presents a series of guides including an overview of distance education, teaching strategies, instructional development, evaluation, instructional television and audio, computers in distance education, research, videoconferencing, copyright issues, a glossary of terms, and more. Try using the lesson ideas from this ThinkQuest entry, which uses authentic NASA technical drawings and includes a link to free, lite-CAD software. Tutorials, slide shows, interactive quizzes, and design projects are linked to the history of the NASA manned space program, including many color photographs.
Lessons are also available in Spanish and French.
The WWW Language Links feature resources for many languages, including French, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. French language learners can access the French On-line Grammar Quiz and other Web Exercises. Students can examine Extinctions, Past and Present, A History of Attempts to Save Species, and The Science of Preventing Extinctions to better understand the complications of being environmentally conscious. Several online polls test users's business ethics skills to those of other readers. You, as a teacher, can encourage these students to identify a problem in your community and develop innovative solutions.