Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. When sites are no longer available, they are not listed as Digital Dozen winners. In celebration we give you, yet again, twelve sites that will knock your socks off. We've also brought back the DD classic, Monarch Watch. The Los Alamos National Laboratory provides this web-based curriculum to inform students and others about current, global issues focusing on the nuclear world.
Participants have the opportunity to correspond by email with mentors in the field.
The clear language, illustrations, and applets at this site will go a long way toward clarifying the meaning of pi and providing applications for its use, as well as providing interesting historical facts about this fundamental ratio. Site visitors can also subscribe to a monthly email newsletter that highlights changes, updates, and new features of the web site. Some of the games and projects require advanced browser versions and special plug-ins. Monarch Watch is a collaborative effort to study the Monarch's life and migration patterns, partnering with student and adult volunteers to raise, tag, and track Monarchs. Activities in the online curricula include role playing, vocabulary, and butterfly life cycles.