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Hey, gang! Hey, Norbit! Welcome to St. Louis, Missouri.

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I'm standing here in front of the St. Louis Science Center, our museum partner for this show.

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This science center is a 232,000-square-foot, three-building facility

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that's connected by a bridge in a tunnel.

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It contains 11 galleries, over 650 exhibits,

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an omnimax theater, planetarium, discovery room, and live science presentations.

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In a moment, we're going to go inside to meet the students

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from the Compton Drew Investigative Learning Center

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and the AIAA student chapter from the University of Washington, St. Louis.

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These students are going to highlight for us the web-based activity

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which complements this NASA Connect video program.

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But first, let's take a quick flyby of Norbit's online lab.

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There are a couple of areas of this lab worth investigating.

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Teachers, the lab manager section is designed especially for you.

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Here you will find scenarios and tools for integrating

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NASA Connect's web activity into the classroom.

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Another excellent resource for integrating technology efficiently into the curriculum is

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ePALS Classroom Exchange.

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As a Connect partner, it offers free web-based email

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and an online classroom community of over 130 countries

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with whom you might communicate and collaborate on class projects,

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such as those projects suggested in the Connect programs.

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Well, here we are now inside the St. Louis Science Center

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and waiting and ready to take us into the wild blue yonder of the Internet

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in this Connect show's web activity are our guest middle and university students.

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The web module that they will share has been contributed by

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Princeton University's Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience, or IPEX.

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IPEX has created several interactive physics modules,

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including one on electricity and magnetism.

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This module will introduce you to many of the basic concepts involved with electricity and magnetism,

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like static charge, moving charge, voltage, resistance, and current.

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This site combines multimedia with built-in interactive exercises

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to help you better understand the concepts.

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For instance, you can rub a balloon on a wolf sweater to learn about static electricity.

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Use a slider bar to see what happens with similar charges on balloons.

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Build and complete a circuit.

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So there you have it.

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Take a website, add interactivity, subtract complexity, and multiply excitement.

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The e-solution is simple.

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Norbitz Online Lab. It's where education clicks.

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Bringing to you the power of digital learning,

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I'm Shelley Canright for NASA Connect Online.