Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done. Parents may want to browse Helping your Child With Homework , a related site published in 1995. The site distributes the activity to the student without linking to external sites. Hypertext links provide flexible navigation within the application for browsing and art selection and elaboration. In this WebQuest, student teams research and debate whether they would rather live near an earthquake fault or a volcano.
Web links help students learn earth science principles as they consider their task.
Students finish the quest by writing e-mail to a geologist. This page is a good example of how teachers can use Filamentality to create a web-infused learning activity. Learning doesn't get much more fun than this, and better yet, participating classrooms can win free software and hardware in the current contest. A teacher's guide includes an Internet primer and curriculum integration tips. This Web site offers links to resources and grant information as well as information about the foundation, but the heart of the site is the the Learn and Live section.