Science and information literacy on the Internet: Using the standards created by the Association of College and Research Libraries and Project 2061 to create a science web page evaluation tool

With funding by the National Science Foundation Education and Human Resourc es Directorate, National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center f or Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) has developed a se ries of Web-based remote experiments. The remote experiments project (http: //olbers.kent.edu/ alcomed/Remote/remote.html) is an initiative exploring t he use of the Internet for creating and sharing laboratory information and teaching resources. The project pioneers school-based experiments on the We b: users with Internet access connect to high school T;Veb sites to control equipment, make measurements and link to information resources remotely. A LCOM worked with teams of Northeast Ohio high school teachers, librarians, and students, in partnership with Keithley Instruments Inc. and Beta-Micron Inc. to set up experiments in the schools and integrate them into curricul a.