Helpful Links

Here are some resources that are particularly
helpful to to mentors.

National Mentoring Partnership

Center for Children and Technology

              The Benefits of Online Mentoring for High School Girls:
            Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and
          Computing Project - Year 3 Evaluation (September 1998)

A number of IBM MentorPlace's Online Activities
incorporate these dynamic and informative websites.



			Project: Exploring the Arts
		State Hermitage Museum	Activity 1: A Trip to an Online Museum


			Project: Be a Doctor for a Day
		Becoming a Scientist	Activity 1: The Road to Becoming a Scientist .
		Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Activity 2: Identify Bacteria Using DNA Sampling Technique Activity 3: Dissecting a Leech Activity 4: What is ELISA?)

			Project: Careers-What Does Your Future Hold?
		The Birkman Quiz Web site	Activity 2: What Is Your Job I.Q.?
		All 4 Resumes JobWeb 7 Step Resume Sampler	Activity 3: The "Write Right" Resume

			Project: How to Solve a Crime or Mystery
		Career in Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigator Forensic Science Degree Forensic Science Timeline	Activity 1: What Does It Take to Be a Forensic Scientist . . . . .
		Evidence: The True Witness	Activity 4: Be the Detective and Put It All Together

			Project: So you want to be an Engineer?
		Careers in Science and Engineering	Activity 1: Choosing a Career .
		Graduating Engineer - Career Profiles Yes, She's Still an Engineer!	Activity 2: What's It Really Like? . .
		SodaPlay (the home of creative play)	Activity 3: Let Me, Let me! .
		Virtual Laboratory	Activity 4: Are You Ready for the Big Time? .
		QBASICNEWS QBASICNEWS.LEARN QBASIC Tutorials	Activity 5: In Which Language Do You Write

			Project: The Sweet Science of Chocolate
		History of Chocolate	Activity 1: Everything You Wanted to Know About Chocolate But Were Afraid to Ask .
		No More Chocolate The Impact of Plant Diseases	Activity 2: The Challenge of Chocolate . .
		A Global Chocolate Shortage American Cocoa Research Institute	Activity 3: Can't we all just get along . .
		Hershey's	Activity 4: Be a Chocolate Scientist


			Project: What's Cook' in - Food and Nutrition
		Cooking with Kids for Dummies Cooking with Kids - Recipes The Food Guide Pyramid	Activity 1: Personal Pyramids . . .
		Nutrition for Kids USDA Nutrition Insights	Activity 3: Nutrition Savvy


			Project: Book Review
		Amazon.com	Activity 4: Thumbs Up? Five Star Rating? You Decide!


			Project: Be a Doctor for a Day
		Becoming a Scientist	Activity 1: The Road to Becoming a Scientist .
		Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Activity 2: Identify Bacteria Using DNA Sampling Technique Activity 3: Dissecting a Leech Activity 4: What is ELISA?

			Project: Inventions That Changed the World
		About.com: Inventors	Activity 3: Why Didn't I think of that? Activity 4: Inventions No One Mentions! .
		Library of Congress	Activity 4: Inventions No One Mentions!

			Project: TryScience
		TryScience	Activity 1: Exploring TryScience

			Project: Sports Science
		WhyFiles - Sports Science	Activity 1: Sports and Technology .
		WhyFiles - Your Mind	Activity 3: The Power of Positive Thinking .
		WhyFiles - Biomechanics	Activity 4: Not Your Usual Mechanic .
		K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook	Activity 5: Aerodynamics in Sports

			Project: Weather Watch
		The Weather Channel	Activity 1: Bon Voyage!


			Project: If Walls Could Talk
		Talking Walls Project	Activity 1: Sharing Your Wall .
		WebQuest - Walls Around the World	Activity 7: WebQuest

			Project: In the News
		ABC News CNN Kids Post Time for Kids US News for Kids	Activity 1: News at Your Fingertips! Activity 4: International Flavor . . . . .
		Intellicast	Activity 2: Weather Watch

			Project: Texas History
		Discovery School's Puzzlemaker	Activity 8: Texas A to Z Technology Connection .
		Lone Star Junction	Activity 9: Texas Symbols .
		Senate Kids Texas Trivia	Activity 12: Texas Trivia . .
		Baseball Hall of Fame Basketball Hall of Fame Famous Texans Famous Texas People Football Hall of Fame Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Hall of Fame	Activity 14: Hall of Fame - Texas Top Ten . . . . . . . .
		Notable Texans Before 1900	Activity 14: Hall of Fame - Texas Top Ten Activity 16: Back to the Future .
		Texas History Timeline Texas Timeline History Almanac	Activity 16: Back to the Future


			Project: Scoreboard
		Sports Around the World	Activity 6: Sports Around the World

A number of Internet sites provides exciting projects that mentors and students can
work on together!

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse website features math projects sorted by
grade level, as well as some great real-world mathematics projects. (We especially
like the "Big Mac Index" project!)

PUMAS (Practical Uses of Math and Science), an online journal of math and science activities
written primarily by scientists and engineers, features real-world math and science activities for
students in grades K-12.

TERCâs science activities encourage students in grades 2-8 to investigate the world around
them both through hands-on experiements and online analysis.

A website devoted to NASA's Discovery mission Genesis offers science activities that track
the spacecraft as it travels a million miles sunward.

Girls Tech features a compendium of web sites and projects that have been evaluated to
especially encourage and increase young women's interest in science and technology.

Science Update, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, provides interesting science news and information EVERY weekday.

Visit the Women in Technology (WIT) Archives Exhibit to take a journey down the WIT timeline, be inspired by success stories of some of IBM's leading female technologists, and discover materials and links related to the topic of women in technology.