November 6, 2002
Dear Meteorology Library,
Congratulations! Here is another web page of yours selected for SciLinks.
Many teachers are taking advantage of the Internet to show their students
materials that enhance or extend the content covered in the curriculum.
These materials are available in the public domain, but they are often
difficult to find. We believe that by utilizing textbooks as a portal to
good online content, we can reach more teachers and students than is
possible with the traditional search engine or pointer web site. This is
simplified by the fact that 90% to 95% of students learn science through the
pages of a textbook. A direct connection from a concept on the textbook page
to materials exploring that concept in cyberspace leads readers to the kinds
of materials our professional educators believe work best in the classroom.
You are receiving this letter because one of your web pages was selected by
our team of teachers who reviewed it using a stringent set of criteria that
ensure selected materials have accurate content and effective pedagogy. You
can review the criteria they used by visiting
http://www.scilinks.org/nsfinstitute/criteria.htm
Once a web site is selected, we place its URL in a database, correlate it to
the National Science Education Standards, and write a brief description that
identifies one or more of its salient characteristics. When a reader (a
teacher, student, or even parent) of a SciLinked textbook comes across a
SciLinks icon in their textbook, they know that the content on that page has
been enhanced with online content specifically connected to a single
concept. The reader goes to the free SciLinks web site, and they type in a
code found on the pages of that text, and the SciLinks search engine reports
the five to 15 pages our teachers selected.
When a user selects one of these sites, a new browser window opens, points
to the selected web site, and connects the reader directly to the content
provider--you.
Thanks for considering this opportunity to connect teachers and students to
the content you have worked so hard to create.
Regards,
Mark Davis
SciLinks
Mark.Davis@nsta.org