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From the magazine, Teaching Pre K - 8, August/September 2006
Hot Web Sites
HighlightsKids.com - It's a Highlights website. Here you will find Hidden Pictures®! This interactive game is based on the popular Highlights magazine feature. It includes sections such as Games and Giggles with a variety of puzzles and games; Express Yourself contains creativity tools for children; Story Soup where kids can listen to stories, write their own captions for a Timbertoes® story and interact with Rebus Roundup stories, some even in Spanish; Science in Action features Try This! (experiments kids can do on their own, with parents or in class), Science Question of the Week and Guess the Mystery Sound.
KidsKonnect.com - KidsKonnect.com can be used to find curriculum information, activities and research by Subject Index or by Alphabetized List. The subject categories are consistent with classroom topics and the Alphabetized List makes specific topics easy to find.
Topic: Classroom Organization
NEA-Works4Me Tips Library - Organize classroom learning with these teacher-tested tips. Tasks from lessons to homework, focused on learning.
Organization Tips from Veteran Teachers - List of tips ranging from organizing folders to bathroom passes to appointment clocks. You'll love these ideas.
Top 10 Classroom Organization - Ideas to help the novice/veteran teacher organize for the new school year. An index sidebar links to organization for computers, paper clutter and more.
Topic: Hatchet Book Study
Gary Paulsen - This rich resource has lesson plans and activities for all ages. Plans include an integrated unit and a PowerPoint guide for creating a survival kit.
Teacher CyberGuide Hatchet - This lesson plan contains language arts content standards, student activities and web resources for a study of the book.
Hatchet - A well-organized resource divided by book chapter. Each chapter category has online (and printable) questions for your book study, activities that tie into the chapter themes, writing lessons and vocabulary activities.
From the newsletter, Classroom Connect, September 2006
Classroom Today - here you will find Internet activities to do every day.
Lesson Plan Goldmines
Apple iPod Lesson Plans - ( K - 12 ) - these educator-created lesson plans are intended for use with an iPod, they may be completed without one.
New York State Apple Country Lesson Plans - ( K - 8 ) - a varied collection of lesson plans dealing with apples can be found at this site.
Cody's Science Education Zone - ( K - 12 ) - created by 20 year math and science teacher, Anthony Cody. Find lots of information for all teachers.
Micron Lesson Plans - ( K - 12 ) - this site contains lesson plans on computer related topics.
Orkin Lesson Plans - ( K - 6 ) - this site offers an impressive collection of lesson plans correlated to national Science Education Standards.
Can I Have a Word?
- ( 6 - 12 ) - this site features some of England's leading poets
reading their work.
A+ Web Gallery
Reach
Every Child - ( K - 12 ) - material
here are organized into four main categories, In the Classroom,
Classroom Support, About the World, and Special Interest.
Above the Influence - ( 7 - 12 ) - this site provides an excellent selection of resources on drug awareness.
BioEd Online - ( K - 12 ) - this site provides informative resources for biology teachers.
Vicki Blackwell's Internet Guide for Educators - ( K - 12 ) - Vicki Blackwell, a technology resource teacher, has assembled an essential collection of links and resources for teachers.
Canadian
Association of Second Language Teachers - ( K - 12 ) - this
site is a fabulous resource for language teachers everywhere.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles - ( 3 - 12 ) - this splendid collection of exhibits includes topics such as Animals and Places, Art and Photography, History and Culture, Rocks and Fossils, and Scientific Illustrations.
The Periodic Table of Comic Books - ( K - 12 ) - professors from the University of Kentucky department of chemistry have created an online reference library to the scientific elements as described in classic comic editions from the 1940's and the 1950's.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - ( K - 12 ) - here find an intriguing online art collection.
Scholastic: Write It! - ( K - 12 ) - this site takes students through each step in the writing process: brainstorm, draft, review, revise, polish, and publish.
Teacher Talk Forum - ( K - 12 ) - here Might Media, Inc. provides free space for teachers to chat about a wide range of topics.
Zoos Victoria - ( K - 12 ) - this site features the zoos of the Australian province, Victoria. It includes the Melboune Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and the Werribee Open Range Zoo.
Kids' Corner
Letter P.A.L.S - ( K - 2 ) - great site to involve student families in a motivational reading program.
Powerful Bones, Powerful Girls - ( 3 - 6 ) - this site created by the National Osteoporosis Foundation sends out the following message, to remain strong bones need calcium-rich foods and exercise.
Strange Matter - ( 5 - 8 ) - here the unusual experiments make use of everyday materials and introduce scientific concepts in an entertaining way.
Nancy Polette's Children's Literature - ( K - 8 ) - great essential literature site.
NASS Kids - ( K - 8 ) - the National Agricultural Statistics Service supplies timely and accurate data to assist farmers and supply students with facts about the different crops grown in each state.
Monticello
Explorer - ( 5 - 8 ) - this site
features the home of the American president, Thomas Jefferson.
From the magazine, Technology and Learning, August 2006