My choice of an interesting and very helpful website is The Why Files: The Science Behind The News.
The purpose of this website "is to explore the science, math and technology behind the news of the day and present those topics in a clear, accessible and accurate manner." There is a new story each week...for the week of October 29 there was a feature on Hurricane Sandy covering such topics as "How do hurricanes form", "How do we predict their paths", and "How can we improve predictions?" Another piece that week alluded to recent museum robberies with questions such as "How do modern art-sleuths fight art fraud and theft with high technology?"
TWF should be a major help to classroom teachers with such regular links as "Science Animations"," Cool Science Images", and "Teacher Activity Pages".
In existence and appearing weekly since 1996, with original funding from the National Science Foundation, the site is currently supported through the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison which encourages the use of its content for non-profit and educational activities.
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