Helping Students Make Science Connections

1. Helping Students Make Science Connections • Many of London’s works were set in a time and place that students will not be familiar with. • Helping students build background knowledge to some of the details he writes about will not only help them comprehend his literary work, but it allows you to instruct in textual and functional reading as well. • The following slides contain sites for information with which students might not be familiar.

2. Science Connections • Auroras Northern Lights http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html • Aurora: Information and Imageshttp://dac3.gi.alaska.edu/~pfrr/AURORA/INDEX.HTM • Real time- The Weather In the Yukon • http://www.weatheroffice.com/scripts/citygen.pl?cclient=ECCDN&city=YDA • Science Snapshots http://explorezone.com/snapshots/1999/09_09_aurora.htm

3. Midnight in Alaska

4. Textual Reading Sites Auroras Northern Lights http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html Science Snapshots http://explorezone.com/snapshots/1999/09_09_aurora.htm The Aurora: Information and Images http://dac3.gi.alaska.edu/~pfrr/AURORA/INDEX.HTM Image © Jan Curtis

5. "And the skies of night were alive with light, with a throbbing, thrilling flame; Amber and rose and violet, opal and gold it came." - Robert W. Service Welcome to The Aurora Page http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/