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From the magazine, Teaching Pre K - 8, May 2005
Topic : Hot Websites
KidsReads - is part of the Book report Network, whose goal is to support and encourage reading.
The Great Plant Escape - here's a tremendous life science unit for culminating fourth and fifth garde science lesson.
Reading Quest - offers a simple framework with keys for developing comprehension and strategies to make skill acquitsion easier.
Topic : Make Summer Learning Fun
Center for Summer Learning - here find resources for parents and students to support summer learning.
Family Education - a parent portal grouped preK-2, 3-5, and 6 - 12 with cool resources for school, entertainment and life skills.
Child and Family Web Guide - this site features hundreds of reserach-based web resources for parents.
GoCityKids - here are some great activities to do in a variety of key U.S. cities.
Kid's Domain - Summer - parents will find free software, online games and links for reading.
Reading is FUNdamental - Summer - lots of fun games for summer reading.
KidZone - this Fun facts site has thematic units, online games for math and language arts, animal and geography facts.
Gamequarium - these 1500+ links to online games are categorized by core content.
Rainbow Magic - Summer Fun - try activities offers puzzles, travel games and boredom busters and much more.
Funbrain.com - games for all the content areas, by grades, with difficulty levels and scores.
Topic: Kamishibai Storytelling
Kamishibai Play - A play in English or Japanese, complete with sound. Teacher guide for creating kamishibai links to Japanese writing.
Kamishibai for Kids - Background on kamishibai, with complete unit plan to create your own with music and ideas for using Japanese storytelling.
Integrating Japanese Folk Tales - Detailed guide with resources, web links and an assessment rubric for original kamishibai stories.
From the newsletter, Classroom Connect, May 2005
Classroom Today - here you will find Internet activities to do every day.
Lesson Plan Goldmines
ArtsEdNet - ( K - 12 ) - provides an online forum for art educators where you can have email conversations with colleagues from around the world.
Education World: May Days Theme Page - ( K - 12 ) - this special them page is loaded with activities for Physical Fitness Month, Mother's Day, Teacher Appreciation Week, Reading and Spelling.
Holocaust Remembrance Day Assignments - ( 7 - 12 ) - each assignment about the Holocaust focuses on a different writing technique.
Asia for Educators - ( 9 - 12 ) - here view teaching units by time period ( 4,000 BCE to present ), file type or subject area.
WeatherEye - ( 2 - 8 ) - has a dozen related weather-related lesson plans on climate, clouds, flash floods, disasters, forecasting, thunderstorms, lightning and tornadoes.
iwebquest.com - ( 4 - 8 ) - here explore a wide range of WebQuest
choices from Journey to Alaska's Glaciers to Ancient Egypt.
A+ Web Gallery
Association for Childhood Education International - ( preK - 6 Teachers ) - click on free resources for well written, timely advice on helping students cope during a crisis, standarized testing, and the child-centered kindergarten.
Representative
Poetry Online - ( 7 - 12 ) - this site from the University
of Toronto includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets.
Future of Math - ( 6 - 12 ) - this site breaks new ground by using a variety of exceptional techniques to enhance understanding of mathematical concepts.
League of American Bicyclists - ( K - 12 ) - this site is a great resource for bicycling enthusiasts.
National Museum of the United States Air Force - ( 4 - 12 ) - this site is devoted to a close inspection of the all types of aircraft spanning the years from WWI through spaceflight.
The President's Challenge - ( K - 12 ) - provides a guide to types of physical activity expanded to meet the needs of twenty first century citizens.
Shakespeare
Is Elementary - ( 4 - 6 ) - this award winning site created
by students at the Crichton Park School in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,
helps students to study the work of Shakespeare.
TagTeacherNet - ( K - 12 Teachers ) - based in the United Kingdom, is the ultimate teacher resource. This online community is designed to meet the needs of teachers using the Internet.
Tombstone Transcription Project - ( 4 - 12 ) - the goal of the site is to connect to our ancestors by developing an online database of headstone inscriptions.
Victoria and Albert Museum - ( 2 - 12 ) - contains one of the world's greatest collections of art and design, with some artifacts dating back 3,000 years. The online collection has over 24,000 images.
World War II Primary Source Documents - ( 6 - 12 ) - created to commemorate the 60th. anniversary of V-E Day, explore the vast archive of primary source documents from World War II.
Kids' Corner
Picture Prompt in-a-Box - ( 4 - 8 ) - here find useful tips for students to respond to pictures in writing.
NIEHS Kids' Pages - ( K - 8 ) - created by the National Institute of Environmental Health Services, here find hot topics on science, such as ozone, DNA, recycling and fitness.
Between the Lions - ( PreK - 3 ) - in conjunction with the popular PBS program "Between the Lions", this Web site provides entertainment with a purpose. Students will enjoy 70 lively stories, 80 cool games, songs, tongue twisters, and more.
Vicki Cobb's Kids' Science Page - ( PreK - 6 ) - here students can sample exciting experiments that use the five senses, water, temperature, and electricity.
Kidsnewsroom.org - ( 3 - 8 ) - this kid-friendly safe site provides
access to Weekly News, This Week in History, Sports Zone, Around
the World, Music and Entertainment.
From the magazine, Technology and Learning, April 2005
Topic : Real Time Science
In this review, by Mike Brown, he has chosen to look at some of the newest offerings from the leaders in classroom data collection, worth noting for their ease of use, the increased power of the software, and the simplicity of design. All the programs include high-quality curriculum guides, which give teachers the opportunity to design meaningful hands-on lab experiences for their students.
Topic : Browser Soup-Ups
By Carol S. Holzberg, Web browsers are the engines that drive us along the 'Information Superhighway'. And thanks to their extensible architecture, we can soup-up these browsers' capabilities by installing third-party add-ons called plug-ins. Popular plug-ins from RealNetworks (RealPlayer), Apple (QuickTime), and Macromedia (Flash) run or display multimedia content, empowering browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, and Firefox to play movies, animations, or audio clips right in the browser window. The Web offers several plug-ins for your browsing enjoyment. Here Carol looks at some of the very best!
Topic : Laptops & Learning: Wireless Classrooms for the 21st Century ( You need to register to access )
Many school districts are adopting laptop learning programs. The lure of anytime, anywhere learning in which students have access to resources 24/7 is enormous. To ensure the success of a program or to help make the decision to initiate one-to-one computing, Technology & Learning is offering this free resource that looks at what the research says about the impact of laptops on teaching and learning and provides practical implementation advice.
Nasa World Wind - World Wind is an open source geography program that allows you to zoom from satellite level to any place on Earth and view the terrain in 3-D.
School Site of the Month
- Mrs. Renz 4th. Grade Class, Vern Patrick Elementary School,
Redmond, Oregon. Heather Renz and her students at the Vern Patrick
Elementary School in Redmond, Oregon, use the Internet daily
for learning and communication. Features include classroom projects,
a photo gallery, and student Web pages.
From the ISTE publication, Learning & Leading with Technology, May 2005
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