1) Website: Bill Nye The Science Guy
2) Website Address: http://www.billnye.com/
3) Copyright date and/or Last Update: © 2011 Bill Ny
4) Author/Organization Credentials: Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life.
5) Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation: Bill Ney The Science guy website is a perfect interactive site for both students and teachers. The home page consists of a daily blog about a daily science issue he stumbles across his everyday life. The site provides pictures and questions that support Bill’s science issue. On the top of the page are some links which talk about the biography of Bill Nye, media, appearances, the Bill Nye store, for kids and teachers, e-cards, and contact information about Bill. To the right of the home page is a list of links which have to subtitles. The first subtitles are categories which are “consider the following” “crush ed” “space” and “videos”. ` These categories are fun and exciting to show your students or just allow them to find it on their own through an evaluation project. The next subtitle is archives where the viewer can go back months to see what Bill was talking about and which topic they missed. At the very bottom are social networking sites that you can follow Bill through facebook, twitter, or yoututbe. A pretty cool feature that I like is the two links at the bottom which allow you find your favorite episode of Bill and interact with the fun exercises and activities of science.
6) Response and Recommendation for Use: This website is outstanding when making science fun for kids. I mean as a child I loved watching the Bill Nye The Science Guy and it made me interested and curious about science. Well now there is a website and now kids can access Bill online. The most useful link on the site is “For Kids & Teachers” because it gives the teacher experiments that their students can do in the classroom which they are studying. Along with the experiments are videos which can be shown to your students that add to the multimedia learning in your classroom. So not only are kids learning but they are earning through you teaching them, Bill hands on experiments and Bills videos. These are great tools to get your class excited for science and have them wanting to go further in this subject. In this link are also printable sheets which help the teacher out when trying to come up with assignment or how to evaluate the experiment? The coolest feature in this link is the Bill Nye Pop Quiz which is over any experiment or subject that you and your class have went over. This allows the students have fun and learn but at the same time see what material and knowledge they have gained from this website. I know that after the quiz they are going to realize that they have been successful by studying and learning about science through this site which will boost their self confidence in school in general. So overall this website makes learning fun and fascinating with all kids in science class.
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