COOL WEBLINKS!
Our top suggestions on the web, listed by the sections in FUSE.
To explore more, visit our matching sections at www.i-explore.net
Also check out the Activity Mix section for some great cross-over links!
Librophilia!
iWords
Calling all Dragon-Trainers seeking fun and games!
Unusual greetings from around the world.
http://www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/26924362
“MAP: Exploring the World” is Out Now! More details and pictures are at:
iTech
www.phaidon.com/map
Brilliant interactive tour of the International Space Station:
http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/movies/
polarexpress/flashsite/index.html
http://www.esa.int/Our _ Activities/Human _
Spaceflight/International _ Space _ Station/
Highlights/International _ Space _ Station _
panoramic _ tour
iScience: Planets
The children's website from the European Space Agency:
A friendly site for any Earth-, solar- or lunar time you could think of!
https://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/LifeinSpace.html
Explore the interactive, wintry world of The Polar Express... :
http://www.timeanddate.com
(Also Activity Mix, Astro-Archaeology.)
iScience: Weird Hibernation
A great site aimed at Young People and the environment:
https://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/hibernation/what-ishibernation
Torpor or hibernation?:
http://www.discoverwildlife.com/british-wildlife/
how-tell-torpor-hibernation
“Human Hibernation”: ✸
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NIAC _
Torpor _ Habitat _ for _ Human _ Stasis.pdf
(Also Activity Mix, Outdoor Eco.)
iMaths
This video about the antarctic has icy numbers – and a cute
penguin!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/geography/
places/antarctica/activity/
(Also Activity Mix snowflake generator.)
iArts
Info and games about Tchaikovsky.
http://www.classicsforkids.com/activitysheets/
December2012.pdf
(Also Activity Mix snowflake generator and music-making.)
iWorld
Pictures and detail about those Italy photos and London filters:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.
php?id=84884
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.
php?id=78669
ACTIVITY MIX
Art & Maths
A great way of designing complex, symmetrical snowflakes onscreen.
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/symmetry/snow.htm
Outdoor Eco
Fun things to do that help creatures overwinter; from building a
stickpile or bat box to gardening for hedgehogs and reptiles!
http://www.bbowt.org.uk/wildlife/wildlife-advice/
wildlife-gardening/wild-info-hibernating-animals
Music-making and Stonehenge sounds:
https://soundsofstonehenge.wordpress.com/soundexamples
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienceenvironment-17073206
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference _ (wave _
propagation)
Astro-Archaeology of Stonehenge
http://www.tivas.org.uk/stonehenge/stone _ const.html
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