Educators and students looking for online games, learning tools, search engines, and NASA-based activities will want to visit the Johnson Space Center's "Internet Tools for Teachers and Students."
The Web site, online at http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov, offers four unique learning tools developed for K-12 students–all of which are easily downloadable to a home or classroom computer.
"Internet Tools for Teachers and Students" includes:
QWHIZ is NASA's premier real-time, multi-player Web game featuring NASA electronic resources. Match wits with students around the country in an online competition or beat the clock on the single-player gameboard.
SIMON is a software tool designed to access and manage Internet information for K-12 teachers and students. It maximizes a local area network, retrieves Internet information, and organizes lessons in a library.
ILIAD is an offline search engine that searches the Internet via e-mail or the Web. Using agent technology, ILIAD provides intelligent, selective access to Internet information through two avenues: a simple, low-cost e-mail interface and a Web-based form.
SPACE TEAM ONLINE focuses on the men and women who make the space shuttle fly to allow others to learn about their diverse and exciting careers. We peek behind the scenes as these folks train astronauts, prepare the shuttle between missions, launch the shuttle, successfully execute missions from the Control Center, and safely land the shuttle.
All four tools can be found at http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov
Johnson Space Center's "Internet Tools for Teachers and Students" is funded by NASA's Learning Technologies Project.
Curator: Randolph Kim
Responsible NASA Official: Mark
Leon
Last Updated: 07/02/2002
